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Kate Farms Announces Senior Leadership Appointments And New Board Of Directors Members
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Kate Farms®, the market leader bringing plant-based nutrition into healthcare, announced today a number of promotions among executive leadership along with four new board members as part of the company s accelerated growth and innovation.
Tom Beecher, previously Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Kate Farms, has been appointed to President effective January 2021. He will oversee business operations of Kate Farms, including product development, customer care, human resources, financial management and strategy. Beecher brings more than 20 years of leadership experience to the role, having formerly led the transformation of businesses and brands as Chief Executive Officer at Cartera Commerce and Imagitas.
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CHAPEL HILL – UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Entrepreneurship (Eship) Center, an affiliated center of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, announced Tuesday that affiliated-faculty at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative (Duke I&E) are participating with the Eship Center, Opportunity Hub (OHUB) and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The goal of this collaboration and engagement from multiple institutions is to address issues like DEI at a systemic organizational level, and to create more equitable ecosystems through the delivery of education, best practices, and actionable frameworks.
This month’s community support selection is the 3DP4ME Project in Jordan.
Fabbaloo: Can you provide a bit of background on when and how the project was started? What was the trigger? What happened in the early days?
3DP4ME: “Our founder, Jason, always had a desire to serve people’s real human needs, so after studying Arabic, he began connecting with people all over Jordan who were working with those with physical challenges. During that time he met Andrew, a Dutch monk, the Director of the Institute for the Deaf in Jordan, and the Chairman of World Wide Hearing (Switzerland). He had lived in the Middle East for over 40 years by that point and had helped provide thousands of hearing aids to children and adults in the Middle East, including 2000 Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Jason soon found an opportunity to volunteer with Andrew doing projects. It was with him that Jason saw the amazing transformation a hearing aid could have on a person’s life, especially a child’s.