Meet Mareill

Founder & Head Consultant

Mareill Kiernan has a long, successful career within the Natural Products Industry helping brands from product development and pre-launch stages to expansion into chains across the country and into Canada. 

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She has sold millions of dollars of products into a multitude of retail channels including Natural Chains, Independent, Grocery, Club, Drug, Food Service, Convenience and Lifestyle accounts like coffee shops or yoga studies. In more recent years she has focused on helping brands grow in Alt Channels to increase their exposure to new clients in their target territories. Her experience has included managing national and regional distributors, brokers, and sales team both outsourced and in house. 

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After getting her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, a passion for a health focused life centered on nutritious foods lead her to study health and nutrition at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, graduating as a certified health coach. She then studied culinary arts at the Natural Gourmet Institute, where she graduated as a Holistic Chef. Both programs helped her fine-tune her knowledge of how food and health go hand in hand. She is passionate about helping better-for-you brands reach more hands. 

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Continuing her status a life long student and has numerous certificates in business development to including: 

Harvard Business School Core Program,

Venture University program by UC Berkeley,

Venture Capital Certificate from Columbia University and 

Natural Gourmet Institute Food Entrepreneurship Certificate