Kim A. Racine’s unwavering dedication to a sustainable future has resulted in an impressive career in the fields of environment, health and safety, and sustainability. Racine’s accomplishments were recently acknowledged by her inclusion on the Marquis Who’s Who Top Women Leaders list.
About Kim A Racine
Racine is the head of environment, health, and safety (EHS) at Lyten Inc., headquartered in San Jose, California. As Lyten scales up battery manufacturing operations and expands across the United States, Racine remains focused on collaborating and contributing to risk mitigation and sustainable practices across multiple business functions, protecting the environment, and ensuring worker safety. She is also vital to maintaining compliance in a complex and evolving regulatory environment.
An Early Passion for the Environment
Racine has always been passionate about the environment. As a teenager, she was “determined to save the planet.” Her goal was to contribute to developing and implementing products and processes that had little to no environmental impact. This influenced her to pursue an academic background that would best enable her to achieve her career goals.
Racine received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She then obtained professional certifications, including Certified Safety Professional, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, Professional Scrum Master, and a certificate in Corporate Sustainability. Her continuous learning journey has enabled her to stay abreast of the regulatory landscape and evolving business trends to add more value to the organizations of which she is a part.
A Career in the Field of Her Passion
Racine started her career as an environmental consultant, where she first learned about environmental regulations. She continued to follow her passion for environmental work to a position at Seagate, where she spent six years contributing to the work of multidisciplinary teams building computer storage media. This was her first foray into working alongside scientists and engineers to minimize the company’s environmental impact.
She then joined Boston Scientific, where Racine was the head of environment, health, and safety (EHS) for nine facilities over the next eight years and built the EHS program from the ground up.
Racine was the head of EHS at Genentech for 9 years after leaving Boston Scientific. During this time she led the company’s COVID-19 response beginning in late 2019. Using her expertise and leadership skills, she built and led an effective team that ensured the continuity of business operations across a campus of over 10,000 staff. She and her team were able to maintain the safety of the onsite staff resulting in a lower infection rate within the company as compared to the surrounding community.
Mentoring the Future
Racine enjoys mentoring and coaching people new in their careers who are attempting to find their footing. She is eager to share her knowledge and pass on what she has learned throughout her career to help them achieve their career goals and continue the important work of protecting our environment.
Racine’s learning journey continues as she expands her expertise into strategic facility management through the International Facility Management Association.
