Jessica Synkoski
Jessica Josephine Synkoski is a certified sustainability practitioner with nearly two decades of hands-on contributions across the food service, pharmaceutical, building systems, and aerospace & defense industries. She has in-depth experience with sustainability strategy setting and operations. She specializes at the intersection of validated performance results, value-added stakeholder engagement approaches and balanced sustainability disclosures.
As the Head of Sustainability and CSR for Sodexo in North America she leads the strategies for a Better Tomorrow 2028 and Net Zero 2040 to improve social and environmental impacts of food service and facilities management. Her focus is scaling solutions for low carbon meals, food waste management and employee engagement. She also leads the US Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation.
She is an advocate for ethnic and gender equity. She is the Executive Sponsor of Sodexo’s US gender inclusion employee group, SoTogether. She serves as Chair of the Board of the MocoFoodCouncil.org, which cultivates a more resilient and equitable local food system.
She holds a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management, and a Sustainability Excellence Associate certification from the International Society of Sustainability Professionals
Sessions
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Mapping the Macros: Navigating Geopolitics, Climate & Supply Chains Shaping Food20-Mar-2026Main Stage