Meredith is a faculty member and Entrepreneur in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business. She was awarded the 2023 Gerald Leland Bach Teaching Award, voted by MBA students. Her courses focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. She has also developed the Family Business Initiative at Carnegie Mellon, which brings together family business owners and entrepreneurs from an array of industries and geographies. Meredith Meyer Grelli founded, led, and sold two craft beverage companies. She has also founded, led, and transitioned three non-profit organizations. She is a serial entrepreneur, innovator, author, real estate developer, and professor with an unsinkable interest in community and economic development. For more than a decade she was the Co-Founder, Co-Owner, and CEO of Wigle Whiskey and Threadbare Cider & Mead, operating seven sites throughout Western PA and distributing spirits and cider throughout the country. Wigle Whiskey was Pennsylvania’s first direct-to-consumer spirits company since Prohibition. Meredith worked relentlessly to restore Pittsburgh’s legacy as the Birthplace of American Whiskey, as well as change the regulatory framework in which distilleries in Pennsylvania operate. Meredith is a two-time James Beard Award Semi-Finalist, an honor given to five alcohol producers in the US annually. Wigle’s innovation was twice featured by the New York Times as well in a variety of national publications, including, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the BBC, Bon Appetit, Real Simple and more. Meredith is the author of The Whiskey Rebellion & The Rebirth of Rye and the Founder of the Whiskey Rebellion Trail, which connects 75 distilleries and cultural sites, including the Mount Vernon, the Smithsonian, and the Heinz History Center across the Mid-Atlantic. Under Meredith’s leadership, the Distillery was the most awarded Craft Whiskey Distillery in the US By the American Craft Spirits Association for seven years. It won the “Best Distillery” title from Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Magazine for ten consecutive years. Wigle was twice named a top 10 Distillery in the country by USA Today. Threadbare Ciders have won numerous medals at the Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition and was also twice named a top ten Cidery in the country by USA Today. Before starting Wigle and Threadbare, Meredith worked in brand management at the Kraft Heinz Company, developed redevelopment plans for environmentally distressed properties at a federally funded non-profit, and studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. She received her BS from the University of Chicago and her MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. While she was in graduate school, Meredith co-founded a Pittsburgh urban beekeeping organization and started the nation's first community apiary. She has served a wide variety of non-profit Boards, including as Chair of Visit Pittsburgh. She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie Science Center of Pittsburgh.

Lena Andrews is the Vice President of Real Estate Development with ACTION-Housing where she leads the real estate development group creating community-driven affordable housing in complex urban settings throughout the Pittsburgh region. Before her tenure at ACTION, Lena managed planning for Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. Lena is passionate about building diverse, vibrant connected urban communities. She is a member of the advisory board of the City of Pittsburgh’s Housing Opportunity Fund and a board member of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures, Jewish Residential Services, and Laurentian Hall. In her free time, Lena enjoys traveling, reading, running, practicing yoga, and cleaning up her neighborhood as the organizer of the East Liberty Trash Warriors. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University.