In December 2019, Karen Karp & Partners was engaged by Balthazar Bakery to assist the company in recruiting for a new Director of Overnight Distribution position.

“Who here is CEO or has an alternative leadership position in their company?” Karen Karp asked at the start of her panel, Money Where Our Mouths Are: Female Funding Gaps in Agri-Foodtech, at the first-ever Women in Food & Agriculture Summit in Amsterdam. From the 60 audience members, of which about 90 percent were women, a mere 10 raised their hands.

The KK&P recruiting approach centers on the careful development of a comprehensive and nuanced job posting as well as a deliberate strategy for spreading awareness of the opportunity, including general and niche job websites, and outreach to our extensive sector networks.

Over the course of the past nine years, KK&P has worked extensively in the state of Rhode Island, a little state that is investing big in the food system.

Situated on a mountaintop, in the Idanha-a-Nova region of Portugal, on the border of Spain and roughly equidistant from Lisbon, Porto and Madrid, Monsanto is considered “the most typical of Portuguese villages.” A fitting, picturesque setting for the recent Fourth Annual Idanha Food Lab Event.

KK&P recently kicked off a dairy sector marketing assessment for the State of Vermont, working closely with the state’s Agency for Agriculture, Food, and Markets and Agency for Commerce and Community Development.

Philo Ridge Farm is a certified organic 400-acre farm located in Vermont’s Champlain Valley. We are a diversified farm in our fourth year of production focused on growing produce and raising meat. Our practices increase the health of our soil, produce a variety of nutrient rich foods, reduce the use of fossil fuels, and support...

The Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is a network organization, established in 2011 with a mission to promote a more accessible, equitable, and sustainable food system in Rhode Island. We work to coordinate a statewide collaboration of diverse and committed stakeholders from all sectors of the food system. With a full-time Network Director and...

HealthEfficient is a growing, mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that supports more than 35 member Community Health Centers (CHCs) and other clients across the East Coast and beyond. Our mission focuses on improving clinical and operational quality through the use of Health Information Technology, to our clients who provide excellent health care to some of the most...

The first-ever dataset investigating the funding of female vs. male founded Agri-FoodTech startups was recently released, and Karen Karp & Partners is proud to have been one of three food system leaders who led the charge.

Karen Karp & Partners is now accepting proposals for food service operators for Bonnet Springs Park, a new public park under development in the city of Lake, Florida.

You’re as equally likely to find Lynda Prim, the new Senior Director of Glynwood’s Farm, working in the fields with resident farmers as you are behind a computer developing a marketing campaign. She’s both a hands-on farmer and a bridge-building program manager.