Denise Woodard, Founder & CEO, Partake Foods
🏈 🤝 ⚡️ Denise Woodard, Founder & CEO, Partake Foods
In between meetings with buyers and investors, the non-stop travel that comes with leading a growing team, and being a mom, Woodard has managed to grow allergen-friendly snack brand Partake and turn what might have been relegated to natural retail a formidable player in mass — Target, to be precise. But Woodard has also become one of the most important voices in CPG, founding The Black Futures in Food & Beverage fellowship program, which helps students at historically Black colleges and universities learn more about (and get hired in) the industry.