About

HelloFresh Senior Director of Responsibility Jeff Yorzyk has over 20 years of experience in sustainability across a broad range of sectors, acquired from commercial and consulting roles with pioneering firms like Five Winds International and Thinkstep (now Sphera). His expertise spans sustainability program development, strategic management systems, ESG reporting, and product sustainability / life cycle assessment – with roots in environmental compliance. As the Senior Director of Sustainability for HelloFresh North America, Jeff spent the last 7 years enjoying the unique opportunity to build a sustainability program from the ground inside the global leader in the meal kit category, HelloFresh. 

Following his personal mission of “fusing sustainability with business,” Jeff built off the HelloFresh mission to “change the way people eat forever” with a materiality approach focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals and SASB sector supplements. The HelloFresh sustainability program includes regulatory compliance and permitting, operational and supply chain sustainability, packaging lifecycle management, social impact, and supporting the marketing and communications teams. HelloFresh SE, based in Berlin, Germany, produced its sixth Non-financial Sustainability Report in 2023, which was audited to the standard of Limited Assurance.  

Jeff also believes that pro bono service is critical to both the profession and his personal mission to fuse sustainability into business. He is a past President of the ISSP Board of Directors, where he led the development of the first professional credentials for sustainability practitioners, and strategic partnering with GBCI for its delivery and maintenance. He currently serves on the GBCI Credential Steering Committee representing the Sustainable Excellence Professional credential. Jeff appears regularly as a guest lecturer on sustainability, and has delivered courses and workshops on life cycle assessment, management systems, and other sustainability topics.