Marisa Whipple Kraft, MBA

Marisa Kraft is a cross-skilled business development professional with a diverse portfolio. She has held multi-disciplinary roles with growing consumer packaged goods, restaurant concepts, and food & beverage companies. Her focus is on identifying valuable opportunities for long-term growth and helping organizations and brands achieve success. With extensive background and expertise in marketing and operations management, Marisa brings a solid business and leadership skill set to every project she works on. She has a talent for finding solutions and the ability to adapt to changing business needs.

Marisa's strengths include building lasting relationships with strategic partners, channel development, wholesale, distribution, e-commerce, and fulfillment. She has insightful and effective team leadership skills and excels in creating win-win collaborations across all departments of an organization. Her extensive event management experience ranges from planning to execution. Her CPG background includes premium food and lifestyle brands.

Marisa studied BA, Environmental Studies at Scripps College and Primate Ecology in Barbados, West Indies, at The School for Field Studies.

Her past experience includes Director Of Operations at Killer Burger, Wholesale Relationships & Events Senior Manager at Salt & Straw, Operations Manager at KEEN, Director of Sales and Operations at Moby Wrap, Northern California Marketing Manager at Odwalla, Marketing Coordinator at Cambridge Systematics, and Marketing Coordinator at National Water Services.