Our Team
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Meet our team members
Chelsie Hodge
Founder & CEO
Chelsie Hodge
Founder & CEO
Chelsie has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Capilano University. She has 15 years of experience in capital markets working in all aspects of IR, Communications and Fundraising. Chelsie has had an interest in nutrition and emerging ingredient trends since an early age and strongly believes in the power of food as medicine. Chelsie got her start in the plant-based sector in 2006 while working for category disrupter, VEGA. Here, she received a crash course on the ins and outs of entrepreneurship and what it takes to start a consumer goods brand.
Mike Iannone
VP of Finance
Mike Iannone
VP of Finance
Mike has over 12 years of experience in managing finance teams, financial reporting and transaction advisory services spanning across the US, UK and Canada for both public companies and private enterprises.
Beginning his career at Grant Thornton in Canada and qualifying as a CPA, CA, he moved to the financial services sector within the Strategic Finance department at Lloyd’s Banking Group in the UK and subsequently to Travelex North America, leading the finance team’s foreign exchange retail division based in New York.
Mike has specialized in leading various public companies and growing startups implement financial processes and systems, optimize their financial resources, and achieve strategic objectives throughout their growth plan initiatives.
Michelle Briggs
Director of Operations
Michelle Briggs
Director of Operations
Coming soon!
Tracey Slade
Tracey Slade
Director of Quality Assurance
Tracey leads the company Quality Department with over 29 years of QA/QC and regulatory experience within the Food and Beverage business.
She has extensive training in Food Safety, Regulatory, Quality and Safety. She has training in internal auditing. GFSI Global Food Safety Initiative (BRC, FSSC22000), SFCR (Safe food for Canadian Regulations), Preventive Controls for Human Food(PCQI), Food Defense, GMP, HACCP, Sanitation, Allergens, Organics, Non-GMO, Kosher and Health and Safety.
Before joining Blender bites Tracey has experience with different kinds of processing. Aseptic processing, milling, grinding, liquid compounding, hot packing, powder blending, RTE Salads, humus and dips and juice pasteurization.
AbOut Blender Bites
To provide our customers with an organic, highly nutritious and convenient solution for their daily smoothie routine.