Kim Bryden is the CEO & Founder of Cureate. She has worked in the food and beverage industry from government to Fortune 500 retail management, to food-tech startup. Cureate provides services to emerging food and beverage business owners to assist with their growth and scaling initiatives. They have worked with emerging retail outlets like Glen's Garden Market; to nationally acclaimed food start-ups such as Beefsteak, a José Andrés concept; to developing and running a year-long educational curriculum for food entrepreneurs called School of Food. With an ever-present mission to create more interconnected, economically vibrant communities, the team built Cureate Connect; an local procurement platform that matches large business and institutional buyers with small business owners through new business opportunities in retail, wholesale, and events/catering. Follow Cureate @cureateco on Facebook and Instagram.