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LA500 2024: Lynda Resnick

Vice Chair, Co-Owner, The Wonderful Co.

Resnick oversees worldwide marketing and philanthropy for The Wonderful Co. At age 19, she dropped out of college and founded an advertising agency, a move that introduced her to her husband and partner, Stewart Resnick. Today, The Wonderful Co. is one of the largest privately held companies in the United States whose brands include Wonderful Pistachios, Pom Wonderful, Fiji Water, and Justin Vineyards & Winery. Through their foundation and personal giving, the Resnicks have invested more than $2.5 billion in education, health and wellness, community development and sustainability initiatives globally. She and her husband have championed sustainability research and invested in on-campus student resources through major gifts to universities in the United States and abroad, including an historic $750 million gift to Caltech in 2019 to advance new solutions and products to renewable energy and sustainability challenges.

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