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Katherine is a pragmatic business leader who cares deeply about U.S. competitiveness and the state of our democracy.
Katherine M. Gehl is the founder of The Institute for Political Innovation (IPI), a nonpartisan nonprofit founded in 2020 to catalyze modern political change in America. Today, Gehl leads the national Campaign for Final Five Elections which she co-founded with leaders across the political spectrum.
Katherine is the originator of Politics Industry Theory, and author of “The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy,” which she co-authored with Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter.
A veteran of the public and private sectors, Katherine is the former president and CEO of Gehl Foods, a $250-million high-tech food-manufacturing company based in Wisconsin that she sold in 2015. In the public sector, Katherine served on the Board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution. She is also the honorary co-chair of the National Association of Nonpartisan Reformers, and the co-founder of Democracy Found, a Wisconsin-based initiative committed to revitalizing democracy.
