Orchid Holistic Search

🌿 Founder of a boutique, high-impact executive search firm, personally billing $500K–$1M annually while leading a team dedicated to placing purpose-driven leaders in natural products, wellness, and sustainability. Partnering with conscious companies (🌱Startup - $500M) and Private Equity firms to build leadership teams that drive long-term success.

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Blanco y Negro Sostenible

Connecting our community to their food, and to one another. One bite at a time.  Leading growth strategy for a 2.5 acre regenerative woman-owned farm, packaged goods, retail food and experiences business in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

Vice President of Growth & Culture 

Regenerative Magic Retreats

Taking busy executives out of their comfort zones and into the wild, lush beauty of Costa Rican nature.  Curated groups will explore farming, food as medicine, nature and authenticity as sources of connection and community.  Filling our cup regenerates our own personal magic. ✨

Founder

Venteon Finance

Managed a split-desk (business development & recruitment). Specialized in accounting, finance and HR professionals for direct-hire and contract placement in the Metro Detroit - Ann Arbor areas. Pioneered new market segments of not-for-profit, education and healthcare. Implemented strategic marketing initiatives to grow and retain client base.

Sales & Recruitment Executive

Let’s find YOUR people! 💎🌺🔎

For a decade and a half, I have had the honor of stewarding conscious hiring for Natural CPG brands and manufacturers, Private Equity firms and other adjacent orgs doing good in the world. We build leadership teams that align with mission and fuel growth. At Orchid Holistic Search, we take on just a few searches at a time to go deep and get it right for our Clients. No mass emails. No bots. Just precision matchmaking for purpose-driven brands with an average time to fill of 36 days. ⚡️

🌿 Regenerative Hiring: Living on a farm in Costa Rica has reinforced what I’ve always known: growth thrives with care, diversity, and the right conditions. So do leadership teams.

✨ Beyond hiring, leaders need S P A C E to thrive. I curate wellness & personal growth retreats in Costa Rica for women in industry, giving founders and executives time to pause, realign with purpose, and lead with clarity. In 2023, I was honored with the New Hope Joy Award, nominated by retreat guests who found deep transformation & joy in these experiences.

Angela Marturano

Tea Drops

Sales Alchemista

Thaiwala

Thaiwala Natural Thai tea, the 1st natural and authentic Thai tea to be introduced.

What's the big deal with Thai tea?  Millennials and younger are heavy consumers of Thai tea, and they will appreciate a NATURAL version of what they already LOVE.  

A shelf-stable and simple to use tea concentrate which creates beautiful Thai bubble tea, hot Thai tea lattes, Thai iced teas, baked goods, cocktails, ice cream and more.

Thaiwala is in Direct Trade partnership with our tea purveyor in northern Thailand, owned and operated by an amazing Thai woman who created a bee sanctuary to support her certified organic farming practices.

VP Sales

Green Temple Lifestyle, LLC

Your body is your temple, so keep it green!  

Green Temple is a Health + Wellness lifestyle brand, and the foundation for this is Green Temple Cleanse.  GTC is an organic, raw, GMO free green juice, and it's like no other green juice on the market.  Low in sugar, heavy on greens, and super tasty!  Plus it contains significant cleansing ingredients such as spirulina which was used to treat children for radiation post Chernobyl.

Freshly made each morning, and delivered to offices in Portland Oregon by 10am.  Green Temple currently sells to Wieden+Kennedy, Icebreaker and Gerding Edlen.  Gerding Edlen has taken the incredibly innovative step in supporting employee Health + Wellness by offering Green Temple Cleanse on a daily basis to their team at a significantly reduced rate.  GE does this because they understand that Health + Wellness begins with what we put into our bodies.  And when we feed our bodies properly,  we not only feel better, we DO better at everything in our lives, including our work lives = higher productivity.  

Green Temple Cleanse was created for my own personal use over the last 3 years.  GT does not believe in "binge cleansing", and instead adheres to a daily cleansing philosophy simply because we absorb toxins on a daily basis.

Green Temple Cleanse supports Health + Wellness, from the inside out.

Kombucha Wonder Drink + Tea Tibet

As the Director of Sales my responsibilities include the following:

*Optimizing sales growth (42% increase in Q1 2013 VS Q1 2012) and maximize sell through, profit, revenue and market share.
*Manage and incentivizing our national broker community.
*Key Account calls and deal structuring.
*Analyzing industry market trends, competition, products and pricing strategies.
*Conduct sales and training meetings with broker and distirbutor network. 
*Business development and brand positioning.

Tea Tibet:

*New tea company with 100% of all profits funding the education of children in Tibet and those living in exile in India.
*Opened 8 new distribution centers since launch at Expo west in March 2013.
*Trained western regional broker network on Tea Tibet.
*Trained and incentivized distributor reps, both inside and outside.
*Collectively secured 100 new points of distribution since late March.

About Kombucha Wonder Drink

Steve Lee, co-founder of Stash and Tazo tea companies, first experienced kombucha while traveling in Russia on business in the 1990s. After sampling a kombucha culture carefully handed down for generations, he took home a “starter” culture from that original batch back to America. Steve began brewing kombucha in his own kitchen and, after becoming convinced that more people should be able to experience its wellness effect, he launched Portland, Oregon-based Kombucha Wonder Drink in 2001. 

Kombucha Wonder Drink beverages include premium organic green, oolong, jasmine and herbal teas packed with antioxidants, while the kombucha fermentation process creates beneficial organic acids that have been known to aid digestion and help build the immune system. 

Kombucha Wonder Drink is a refreshing, USDA-certified organic sparkling fermented tea. Effervescent, slightly sweet and subtly tart with low amounts of sugar and caffeine, Kombucha Wonder Drink is pasteurized and classified by law as a non-alcoholic beverage.

http://www.wonderdrink.com/

Director of Sales

Marley Coffee, llc

As the Director of Sales my responsibilities included:

*Business development and brand positioning.
*Strategic sales growth planning and implementation.
*Open communication and management with broker network, distributors, PR and social media experts.
*National key account calls and all sales presentations.
*Creation and execution of promotions for maximum sales results.
*Key Accounts calls and negotiations.

Bob Marley always said he would return to farming one day. With Marley Coffee, Bob’s son Rohan fulfills the dream.

INTHIS GREAT FUTURE,YOU CAN’T FORGETYOUR PAST – BOB MARLEY

My father came from the farmland in Nine Mile.There, he learned a deep respect for nature and humanity that helped guide his life. His dream was to return one day. Our coffee was founded to honor my father. In your hand, you are holding a piece of our dream. One Love. – Rohan Marley

Kicking Horse Coffee

This was a part time position with the following achievements:

*Opened up UNFI and KeHE nationally, the two biggest natural food and mass market distributors in the US.
*Created, trained and managed national broker network.
*Deal structuring to increase points of distribution and maximizing sales.
*Lead point person for trade show execution.
*Business development and Category management.

Mighty Leaf Tea

Achieved FY2006 sales $2.7 million.
*	Opened numerous distributors and brokers on a national level.
*	Managed and trained all brokers.
*	Called and managed all national strategic key accounts.
*	Created and managed all promotions on both a national and regional level.
*	Opened up distribution in all regional Whole Foods Markets except Florida.
*	Accomplished the above while being the only retail sales person until 4/07.

Director of Retail

Achieved FY2004 sales of $386,972 from $0.
*	Solely managed the launch of Mighty Leaf into the retail market in 10/2004.
*	Increased NorCA Whole Foods sales from $6,500/month to $26,000/month.
*	Hired three brokers.

Sales and Marketing Consultant

Tazo Tea

Experienced in and responsible for establishing and growing sales of a start up company from the ground up.  Managed all key accounts in 12 western states after developing a comprehensive distribution system.

Western Regional Sales manager

TAZO

Responsibilities inclueded:

*Developing the NW territory for both food service and retail.
*Broker management.
*Key Account calls.
*Business develpment and product positioning.

Northwest Sales Manager

Responsible for pursuing and developing new business in key target areas. 
*	Attended fifteen industry trade shows, set up and managed booths and consistently won
all sales competitions.  
*	Promoted to Northwest Sales Manager after seven months.

Regional Sales

THE NATURE COMPANY

*	Assisted in managing a twenty-four million dollar business.
*	Personally responsible for the buying of a seven million dollar business.
*	Worked in all areas including product selection, vendor negotiations, product
development, vendor sourcing, packaging, label design, and importing.  
*	Increased sales by 25% within three months.

Assistant Buyer, Toys

Assisted in managing a thirteen-million dollar business.
*	Responsible for forecasting sales by item at a chain level, on a seasonal basis.  
*	Analyzed market trends and revised orders to maximize sales.  
*	Negotiated with vendors for increased margin.

Assistant Buyer, Books

Supported three Buyers in all aspects of business including catalog samples
coordination and vendor interaction.  
*	Promoted to Control Buyer after two months.

Merchandising Assistant

Tea Drops is an innovative tea company serving the needs of the modern age tea drinker. Making an assortment of organic, bagless teas, Tea Drops sheds less waste than a tea bag and has amassed a growing community of 100K+ tea lovers based on transparent brand values & unique tea experiences. Tea Drops has become a favorite among new and experienced tea drinkers alike, launching innovative tea experiences that merge flavorful blends, community, and convenience.

Through our partnership with clean water organization, Thirst Project, Tea Drops has brought clean water to over 50,000 individuals.

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Winner of the $100,000 2018 Woman-Owned Businesses with Impact Grant from the Tory Burch Foundation, $50,000 2020 PepsiCo-Frito Lay WomanMade Grant, and $20,000 2017 Women Founders Network Grant.

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