Maggie is a consultant, with over 20 years of experience as an operator, focused on developing and executing market-based programs and partnerships to solve entrenched issues in the food, retail, health and adjacent sectors. Her specialty is in developing shared value business solutions in these arenas, with a primary focus on “food as medicine”/food for health. In her current roles, Maggie is a member of the New Enterprise Ventures Advisory Board, serves as a strategist and subject matter expert with Clareo’s Food Practice Area, and offers advisory services to multiple other social enterprises, non-profit, and academic institution initiatives, including Georgetown Center for Impact’s Portion Balance Coalition. She brings to each of her roles a focus on innovation and cross-sector, multi-stakeholder partnering, leveraging deep insights, experience and a network spanning consumer packaged goods (CPG), retail innovation and activation, technology, nonprofit strategy, nutrition incentive programs and the aging space.
In her prior roles, Maggie directed a global partnership strategy for PepsiCo, working across corporate and commercial business units to develop proactive, shared value partnerships (with retail customers, industry groups, and the public sector) connecting PepsiCo’s commercial, regulatory, and health & sustainability agendas. Prior to PepsiCo, she led the development of AARP Foundation’s SNAP and food as medicine portfolios, including Fruit and Vegetable incentive and food Rx programs; and developed and ran Fresh Savings, an innovative public-private partnership with UnitedHealthcare, Kroger, farmers markets, and USDA that provided monetary incentives for SNAP consumers to incentivize the purchase and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Maggie serves as a board member for HERO, advancing health, performance, and well-being through employer leadership; as a member DC Central Kitchen’s Food as Medicine Advisory Council (formerly a member of their BOD executive committee); and fundraising chair on the board of Suited for Change. Maggie received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Mercer University and a Master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Georgia. She lives and operates out of Washington, D.C.