Jim Carbine is CEO at Local Foods and Butcher & Larder, located on Willow St. in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. Local Foods is a regional wholesale food distributor serving restaurants, caterers and food service companies in the Upper Midwest, and also operates a retail grocery store, café, and butcher shop at the Bucktown location. Local Foods' unique business model connects local smaller-scale ranchers, growers, entrepreneurs and makers to consumers in the greater food community who are searching for clean, source identified, sustainable food for their families and customers.

Presence Marketing, a co-founder of Naturally Chicago, pioneered as a broker for Good Food products when it was founded by CEO Bill Weiland and COO Christine Tzumas in 1990. Milt Zimmerman became a partner five years later, and this leadership team has remained intact as Presence — like the consumer market for Good Food and Natural Products — has enjoyed exponential growth.