Caroline Grace

Product & Prosper

The retail growth strategy & execution team building CPG brands into retail winners.

Most brands have big retail dreams. We have the playbook to get them there. At Product & Prosper, we help promising CPG brands build the strategic foundation to succeed at retail—then work with them to get on shelves and in carts nationwide. 

Let's build your path to retail success.

Apply here → www.productandprosper.com

Founder & CEO

The Prosper Lab

The Faire growth team for CPG.

We help CPG brands get more traffic + sales on Faire.

Apply here → www.productandprosper.com/faire

Startup CPG

San Diego Community Leader

Salut Botanical Drink Infusions

Wholesale Sales Manager

Flow Marketing

Developed brand and content strategies to help executives, entrepreneurs, and innovative companies go from expert to online thought leader.

Senior Brand Strategist

Daydream Dessert

Barnett Strategies, LLC

Executed Barnett Strategies projects for marketing and sales consulting clients.

•	Maximized marketing and lead gen for Barnett Strategies, increasing CEO’s LinkedIn engagement by 75% and post views by 130%
•	Facilitated development of sales presentation, messaging, and cold outreach lead gen strategy for Weather 20/20
•	Suggested website optimizations and content strategy approach for Edquity
•	Conducted cold outreach lead gen program for Pepper, booking 9+ high-quality sales meetings. 
•	Managed the nurturing of inbound sales leads for Light.co, email reply rate increased to 60%

Sales & Marketing Consultant

TripleBlind

•	Facilitated partnership marketing strategies with Eagle Alpha, Accenture AIP+, and UnionBank of the Pacific
•	Managed the nurturing of inbound sales leads
•	Launched and orchestrated LinkedIn Ad and PPC strategy
•	Recommended strategic website optimizations that increased conversions 51% in one month

Sales & Marketing Coordinator

The Resort at Fredericksburg

Managed brand and creative direction for winery and resort startup. Designed logos, menus, and marketing collateral.

Brand Manager & Sales Associate

Premama Wellness

Managed social strategy, brand partnerships, paid ad design, high-touch customer service, SEO and PR strategy, launched new affiliate and ambassador programs, and defined an updated brand guide. Spearheaded Scrum project management techniques to maximize team productivity.

Brand & Marketing Strategist

I help CPG brands win at retail.

How? Through a growth studio with the suite of tools, tactics, processes, and teams that totally flip the script on retail success:

👉 The Product & Prosper® Program: We're retail success architects who transform great products into must-stock brands with undeniable traction in just 6 months.

👉 The Product Lab: The product sampling program getting you exclusive feedback from up to 400+ industry experts, so you know exactly how to transform your product into one people rave about.

👉 The Prosper Lab: The Faire growth team getting you more traffic + sales on Faire through expert profile optimization and hands-on management.

👉 The Retail Lab: The retail mastermind community––a private Slack community of 500+ brands and retail experts here to support you through every challenge of getting on and staying on the shelf.

Our unique approach goes beyond traditional retail strategy or sales. From crafting a rock-solid brand foundation to building a robust sales strategy, we collaborate 1-on-1 with emerging brands through every step of their retail journey. Our holistic strategy ensures you're not just another product on the shelf, but a brand that buyers actively seek out.

Looking to transform your retail dreams into a reality? Let's connect!

In past lives, I've been:

•a 2x nationally award-winning poet •a D2C copywriter & conversion strategist • a social media strategist • a creative director • a brand strategist • a GTM marketer • a B2B tech sales consultant • a food & beverage sales rep • a webinar host • a digital nomad • a self-published novelist • a certified Scrum Master • a certified ski instructor •  a certified fashion design manager  •  a certified cheese taster.

Now, I'm on your team. ❤️

productandprosper.com

Helping emerging CPG brands gain sales traction and go to their first retailers.

Marc Nathan

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

"Marc Nathan will serve as a key market connector and identify business opportunities across Michael Best’s family of companies through introductions, partnerships and community activities. He will also work alongside firm leadership to build a strategic lead generation pipeline with target goals, and will continue to assist in Michael Best’s brand awareness initiatives throughout Texas and nationwide."

Businesses need more from a law firm than skilled advice and representation alone — they need a long-term strategic partner like Michael Best.

Michael Best is a leading law firm, providing a full range of legal services to clients on a global, regional, and local basis. The firm has more than 400 legal professionals, including nearly 300 attorneys, serving clients in 17 offices across the U.S. in Colorado; Illinois; North Carolina; Texas; Utah; Washington, D.C.; and Wisconsin. Michael Best’s areas of practice include: intellectual property, labor and employment relations (including employee benefits), litigation, corporate and transactional, environmental and natural resources, privacy and cybersecurity, real estate, regulatory, and tax. The firm serves a variety of industries, such as advanced manufacturing, agribusiness, digital technology, energy, food and beverage, higher education, and life sciences.

Senior Director of Market Development

Austin Consumer Week

Austin Consumer Week is a series of separate professional events focused on the Consumer space held over one week in and around Austin, Texas. The Austin area is quickly becoming the epicenter for new consumer and digital brands, and several organizations are converging to host Summits, Workshops, Site Tours, and of course, a big community Happy Hour to cap off the celebration. The audience for Austin Consumer Week is anyone involved or adjacent to the creation and production of Consumer Packaged Goods or consumer-facing digital products. Founders, Brand owners, investors, service providers, and CPG enthusiasts are welcome to join us.

Founder

The Consumer VC

The Consumer VC Summit will be the premier online destination for the top venture capital and private equity investors in the CPG space. Over three days, the CVCS will present expert panels and in-depth case studies, as well as host a curated mentor matching program for emerging brands.

Co Producer

Techstars

Techstars is a startup accelerator that provides mentorship-driven seed-stage investment services for technology-oriented companies.

Mentor

Capital Factory

Capital Factory (http://www.capitalfactory.com) is a seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Startup companies apply to participate in our 10 week summer program intended to get a startup pointed in the right direction with a clear path to cash flow.

Texas Squared Startup Newsletter

The Texas Squared Startup newsletter is a weekly email that discusses news, opinions and events for the Texas startup and technology ecosystem. Texas-Boxed is a monthly publication dedicated to the Consumer Packaged Goods community. The newsletters provided a consistent and comprehensive overview of all relevant news headlines and events across the state of Texas. The news was hand-selected from a a curated list of over 100 public and private sources. 

Both newsletters were merged with VentureConnectHQ in May 2025.

Founder and Publisher (Acquired by Venture Connect HQ)

Egan Nelson LLP

Egan Nelson, LLP (E/N) is a technology-progressive law firm that focuses on representing tech entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies for formation, angel and venture capital financings, acquisitions, and complex corporate & commercial transactions. The VP Client Strategy role is designed to personally consult with E/N clients to guide them through the complicated process of raising investment capital through Seed and later stage financing rounds for emerging and established businesses, including strategizing and facilitating connections for fundraising.

Vice President, Client Strategy

Texchange Austin

TeXchange connects Austin’s business community; bringing together founders, business leaders, investors, and executives at the middle stages of their careers and company trajectories for knowledge-sharing, development, and networking.

Co President

T-Squared Agency

T-Squared Agency is a boutique startup and technology advisory that helps businesses connect with the right people, the right technology and the right funding. T-Squared understands you and your clients needs and is able to create professional outcomes with a focus on marketing, capital investment and product development.

SeedInvest

SeedInvest is a leading equity crowdfunding platform that connects investors with high quality startups. SeedInvest provides investors with inside access to highly ­vetted investment opportunities and makes investing in startups as easy as buying shares in a public company.

Marc helped SeedInvest initially launch in the State of Texas as it's first Managing Director.

Managing Director - Texas

Connecting Tech & CPG startups with funding and legal support. 'Super Connector'

Marc is an experienced leader in the technology startup community with a talent for connecting entrepreneurial business owners to customers, employees, investors, and partners. https://bit.ly/abjsuperconnector Marc is the Senior Director of Market Development for the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP where he helps clients discover appropriate capital sources and business partnerships. Marc founded T-Squared Agency (www.tsquaredagency.com) to support select clients with comprehensive growth strategies and funding resources. Throughout his career, Marc has assisted early-stage companies with business strategy, capital acquisition, digital and mobile marketing, customer development, strategic partnerships, and product development.

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