Emily Hikade
Founder and CEO, Petite Plume
Emily grew up in Wisconsin, earned a BA from Notre Dame, and then spent 15 years as an undercover CIA officer working counterterrorism across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. In 2015, while stationed in East Africa with three young sons, Emily bootstrapped and launched her startup, Petite Plume. She left the CIA and has since built Petite Plume into a fast-growing global lifestyle brand.