Young Alumni Achievement Award 2025: Kristin Alongi '10

Bio

Kristin Alongi is the vice president of business transformation at Rich Products Corporation, a frozen food manufacturer, in Buffalo, NY. She is responsible for overseeing Rich’s Transformation Office and shaping transformational strategy and governance to deliver new levels of performance related to growth, productivity and capabilities. 

Prior to this role, Kristin was the vice president of executive team governance and strategic planning, where she was responsible for fostering the development and heightened performance of Rich’s executive leadership team, leading strategic initiatives and overseeing the enterprise strategic planning process. Other past experiences include overseeing Rich’s new product development and innovation portfolio management, go-to-market process strategy and four years as an R&D product developer for Rich’s innovation and bakery teams.

She was the valedictorian of Hamilton College, with a BA in chemistry, and holds both an MS in food science from Cornell University and an MBA from SUNY Oswego. Past research expertise includes juice processing and computational chemistry.

Kristin sits on two Cornell University Advisory Councils: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Food Science. Previous leadership includes serving on the Cornell University AgriTech Advisory Council, Massachusetts’s Avenue Project Board of Directors and the Western New York Institute for Food Technologists Board.