Linda Rizk

Mrs. Rizk is the Founder and CEO of Counter Forced Labor, a global compliance and advisory company that provides corporations with various services including the training, assessment, research, and supply chain transparency required to combat human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. Counter Forced Labor provides corporations and businesses with the technological solutions needed to better manage the risk of slave labor and/or human trafficking in the supply chain.

Mrs. Rizk is also the Co-Founder, CFO, and Managing Partner of Rizk Ventures and has been instrumental in sourcing and initiating many of the early-stage investments for the company. Mrs. Rizk also leads the Rizk Ventures philanthropic initiative by supporting and partnering with countless charitable organizations to promote awareness of the needs of injured service members, support youth education initiatives, and combat the effects of poverty.

Mrs. Rizk has received numerous awards for her charitable efforts including the STRANG Humanitarian Award (STRANG Cancer Prevention Center is a diagnostic and research facility for the detection and prevention of cancer), the Wheelchair Charities Humanitarian Award (Wheelchair Charities supports and enhances the quality of life for paraplegics and quadriplegics at the Goldwater Memorial Hospital in New York), the Colleen Giblin Foundation Humanitarian Award (Colleen Giblin Foundation supports children’s neurological and cancer research), and an honorary special recognition by Operation Game On.

Mrs. Rizk serves on the Advisory Board for Operation Game On, an innovative golf rehabilitation program for returning combat-injured troops suffering from physical and mental disabilities, and was recently elected to the University of North Carolina’s Board of Visitors Class of 2021. Mrs. Rizk previously served on the board of directors for the Institute for Educational Achievement, the nation’s most prestigious non-profit school for children with autism.

Linda Rizk received her B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University Douglass College and worked in public finance as an investment banker while completing her M.B.A. in Finance from Pace University.