A native of New York City, Michele Abo (Picture Attached) is Chief Sales Officer of Barrie House Coffee.
Ms. Abo comes to Barrie House with over 30 years of executive, commercial, marketing, and operations management experience in the consumer products, ingredients, and industrial sectors. In these roles, Michele focused on brand building, developing strategic commercial and marketing plans, operations management, supply chain, customer service, and demand planning excellence.
Michele has been the Chief Executive Officer of several notable portfolio companies in the private equity environment. Prior to those roles, she was with George Weston Bakeries/Entenmanns as Vice President of Sales and PepsiCo/Frito Lay as a regional Director of Sales and Marketing.
Michele holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. She began her career in plant and operations management at Chevron USA, then moved into an account executive role in the plastics and packaging industry.
A sports and theater food enthusiast, Michele likes to spend her free time playing golf and tennis and attending Broadway shows. She relaxes by cooking at home and enjoys vacationing at resort destinations that are golf-centric.