Erin Sawyer (formerly Erin Brooks) has 15+ years automotive, technology, and management consulting experience leading projects and teams in strategic sourcing, global supply chain management, and product development.

Erin is currently a Venture Partner at Volo Earth Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early-stage climate tech companies such as electricity, mobility, construction, and embodied carbon. There, she invests in companies that lower carbon emissions, and helps portfolio companies scale their business in the areas of supply chain and manufacturing.

Previously, Erin was the Vice President of Supply Chain at Wrightspeed, working to reduce energy consumption and pollution where it is most concentrated – our local garbage trucks, delivery trucks, and buses - by swapping out the entire powertrain for a cleaner, quieter, efficient solution.

Prior to Wrightspeed, Erin managed Global Supply of Core Technologies at Tesla Motors, responsible for developing a long term, scalable supply base strategy, to enable Tesla’s goal of accelerating the world’s adoption of increasingly affordable electric cars.

Erin previously worked as an Engineer, Buyer, and Project Manager for numerous Fortune 500 companies and clients, including Honeywell, Cummins Inc., and Ford Motor Company.

Erin Sawyer is an accomplished leader in non-profit organizations whose mission is aligned with encouraging young women to enter careers in STEM, and promoting the full potential of professional women in careers as engineers and leaders. Erin is an active member and elected officer of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Erin is also a board member of Kids’ Vision, a non-profit designed to expose girls to how STEM is applied in high tech companies in Silicon Valley.

Erin received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.