Marie Eric is the Founder and CEO of Tastee Tape, a sustainable packaging company pioneering edible and biodegradable alternatives to plastic food wrap.

Marie grew up in Los Angeles with a passion for STEM and problem-solving, and went on to earn a Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where she created Tastee Tape as a senior capstone project.

Marie graduated from IndieBio's New York accelerator program (backed by SOSV) and has driven Tastee Tape's pivot from a novelty food adhesive to a scalable sustainable packaging technology that competes with plastics at cost parity.

Marie oversees business strategy, product development, and commercialization at Tastee Tape, building on her engineering expertise and a prior role as a Learning Assistant at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Tastee Tape was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2022 and has been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, CNN, NBC, and ABC, with the global food packaging film market it targets projected to exceed $115 billion by 2034.