If we haven't officially met, you can read on for the formal listing of jobs, employers, recommendations and experiences. What you should know about me that you won't gather from the professional resume is that I love networking...so how can I help you? I didn't follow the traditional career path. My first job was running routes at Frito-Lay; yep, I drove a truck. I was part of the first national account team at Nabisco calling on Mass, Drug, Club, Convenience Stores and Aldi. I spent time in Customer Marketing at PepsiCo and as a VP at Sysco's chain division, Sygma. I crossed Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain roles repeatedly. I moved from Retail to Foodservice to Industrial channels. I worked for publicly and privately held companies. I worked for VC and PE-backed companies.I love a good challenge and, after 23 years in Corporate America, decided to follow in my Mother’s footsteps and launch my own business. I thought my connections and talents might be better used for the proverbial good. I launched Elohi Strategic Advisors in 2015 to assist small, natural and sustainable brands in their quest to launch in the foodservice channel. In late 2017, after reading "The Founder's Dilemma" and "The Founder's Mentality", and having spent six months on a project with Impossible Foods, I handed the reins to the Elohi team and joined Impossible. I spent almost two years as a consultant and FTE writing and executing the strategy. Needless to say, I am very proud of the work that I did with that Sales, B2B Marketing and Product Innovation team.In 2019 I returned to Elohi, hired a kick ass CEO and worked with her to hire a management team that would allow us to pivot into the company we are today. I am an avid genealogist and traced my family from Scotland to the US. I’m still learning about my Cherokee roots and sadly may never know as much about that piece of my history.My little company turns nine years old in 2024. We are WBENC certified.
Listed skills include Cross Functional Team Leadership, Management, New Business Development, Sales Management, and 45 others.
