MEET THE NATURALLY CHICAGO
ASSOCIATE BOARD
About the Naturally Chicago Associate Board
The Naturally Chicago Associate Board is composed of a wide variety of food and beverage professionals. The Board’s members come from a range of backgrounds including leading service providers for food and beverage startups, venture capital and debt firms, food and beverage producers, retailers and grocers, and food and beverage startup leaders, among other stakeholders within the Chicago food and beverage ecosystem. The Associate Board works directly with Naturally Chicago's Locally Made startups each month to accelerate their growth by offering expert strategic advice and feedback. The Board also strives to support Naturally Chicago fundraising and programming objectives.
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Adam Falkof
CO-CHAIR, Partner, Quarles & Brady LLP
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Sarah McCarron
CO-CHAIR, Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
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Dan Abel
CEO, Pilot Project Brewing
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Kati Behrens
Commercial Relationship Manager, Fifth Third
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Trevor Burns
VP Business Development, Reboot Media @ Reboot Partners
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Bill Ciani
Chief Customer Officer, Roth Premium Foods
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Caroline Davidson
Strategic Account Executive, Retail, CPG, Snowflake
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Amy Devitt
Senior Activation Marketing Manager, Kerry
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Kaitlyn Fundakowski
Senior Director, E-Commerce, Chomps.
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Mo Ghabrial
Senior Associate, Investments, S2G Ventures
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Michael Gloer
Growth Insights, CA Insights
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Fabian Gosselin
Investor, Cleveland Avenue
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Zach Hanlon
Director, Garlic Expressions
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Jason Harris
National Brand Manager, Presence Marketing
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Giuseppe Infusiono
CIO, InvestBev
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Gino Infusino
Category Manager, U.S. Foods
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Amanda Kellerman
Principal, Plante Moran
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John Kim
CEO, J PLUS Specialty Foods LLC
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Alex Kleiman
VP, Business Ventures & General Counsel, Momofuku
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Katie Kowalski
Director of Commercial Partnerships, Fairtrade International
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Matt Leytman
CFO, KinderFarms
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Ashley Lohoff
Senior Brand Manager, Constellation
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Matt LoLordo
Operations & Technical Manager, Kind North America
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Chip Longenecker
General Partner, Tonic Ventures
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Justin Malina
Director, Revenue Management, Simple Mill
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Alena Marovitz
Associate Brand Manager, Conagra
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Dylan Melvin
Director of Adult Beverage @ Foxtrot
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Sarah Nathan
Owner, Bloom CPG Consulting
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Anthony Prousis
MBA Candidate, Booth School of Business
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Alvaro Reyes
Sr Category Manager, KeHE
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Kathryn Rowe
National Sales Manager, HumanCo
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George Russell
VP, Arbor Investments
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Mollye Santulli
VC, Springdale Ventures
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Stephen Scott
Assistant Director, Savills North America
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Teddy Seidman
Strategic Partnerships, Growth Retail, Instacart
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Kenny Silverman
Consumer Investment Banking at Raymond James
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Tara Tarazi
Director of Supply Chain Strategy, DUDE Products
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Jordan Tepper
Co-founder, Apologue
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Ed Velasco
Chief Revenue Officer, SRW Agency
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Taylor Virgil
President, DSP Insurance
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Ryan Wiltse
CPA | Operational Consultant
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Amber Zabran
National Brand Manager, Presence