Miranda Magagnini
IceStone

Miranda Magagnini is the co-CEO, and co-Founder of IceStone LLC, the leading green durable surface in the US. The company, based in a 55,000 sq. ft. eco-friendly factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is a model of a triple bottom line company which integrates “People, Profit and Planet” principles into the company’s overall strategy for growth and success. As co- founder and CEO, Miranda brings more than twenty five years of marketing and management experience to IceStone. She is now working to grow and manage this new model of local manufacturing with 55 employees in a day-lit factory, outfitted with state of the art recycling and waste/heat recovery. IceStone durable surfaces (made from 100% recycled glass in cement matrix) achieved Gold level Cradle to Cradle™ certification from McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry, the only durable surface in this category and only one of only fourteen products to reach this status.
 
IceStone has garnered tremendous national media coverage. The company has been featured in The New York Times, Coastal Living, Metropolitan Home, Town & Country, Domino, Food & Wine, Gourmet Magazine, Popular Mechanics, The Robb Report, and was recently recognized as one of Inc. magazine's 50 Greenest Companies. IceStone has also been seen on PBS's “This Old House,” “Simply Green with Danny Seo,” NBC, the Sundance Channel and with Sara Snow on the Discovery Channel.
 
Miranda is an active member of the socially-responsible business and investing movement for nearly twenty years and served on the board of Verite for nine years, a non-profit that ensures that workers worldwide work under fair, safe, and legal conditions. A member of the Social Venture Network and former investor of Investor’s Circle, she frequently speaks on the topic of corporate social responsibility and green marketing. In spring 2009, she was accepted by the Aspen Institute into the inaugural class of First Mover Fellows, a group of leaders with “a demonstrated passion and capacity for working at the intersection of business growth and positive social change.”

Miranda received her BA from Smith College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.