Mei Mei Dumplings
Alyssa Lee serves as the Managing Partner at Mei Mei Dumplings, a farm-focused and woman-owned dumpling factory, cafe, and classroom specializing in creative Chinese American cuisine made with locally sourced, sustainable ingredients since April 2017. Prior experience includes a role as Contract Project Manager at Altamont Capital Partners, leading the launch of an Asian Fast Casual restaurant in collaboration with a local celebrity chef. Alyssa also worked as an MBA Marketing Associate at PlacePass, where marketing initiatives for a travel technology startup were managed, and as Development Director for Asia at The MBA Tour, significantly increasing regional revenue by training and supporting staff. Alyssa holds an MBA from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business and a BA in East Asian Studies from Colby College, complemented by intensive language and culture studies in China.
Mei Mei Dumplings
Farm-Focused. Woman-Owned. In 2012, James Beard Award-winning chef Irene Li co-founded Mei Mei with her two older siblings. "Mei Mei” means little sister in Mandarin and our dumplings are an expression of the Li siblings’ favorite childhood food memories as Chinese-American kids growing up in Boston. In 2020, Irene teamed up with Babson MBA graduates, Alyssa Lee and Annie Campbell, to lead the business in its transformation into a Dumpling Factory, Cafe, and Classroom.