Kate heads up Marketing and Innovation for Maple Leaf’s Foodservice division, playing a key role in leveraging Maple Leaf’s core strategies of “Better Food, Better Care, Better Planet and Better Communities”/carbon neutrality to bring value to Foodservice partners and help deliver their growth ambitions. Kate began her career with Maple Leaf 23 years ago as a Leadership Trainee and has spent time in Finance, Sales and Marketing, which ultimately became her passion. In her current role, Kate leads a team of high performing marketers to generate awareness and growth for Maple Leaf’s sustainability platform, launch new product innovation, and develop marketing programs designed to promote customer initiatives, drive traffic for the industry, and reward foodservice partners for the good they do for their communities.