Hannah Kullberg, founder behind the PNW F&B, loves to support community projects! 

Behind the scenes, or sometimes not as much, the PNW F&B is run by Hannah Kullberg.

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Hannah is a food startup connector and project catalyst with the mission to collectively build an equitable, regenerative, resilient, regional food system. She works specifically with emerging packaged food and beverage entrepreneurs, the creative changemakers of our food system. While co-founding and scaling The Better Bean Company from farmers markets to national distribution, she intimately experienced the barriers to success. Since exiting from the company in 2018, she has become a holistic business consultant and advisor. As a business advisor to the Small Business Development Center’s “Getting Your Recipe to Market Program” she helps new food companies launch into the ecosystem. Kullberg is a coach for XXcelerate and a mentor with BUILT Oregon and OEN’s Angel Food. Working with Prosper Portland she helps organize networking events for food businesses. She is passionate about helping the next generation of food business founders navigate the industry, actively catalyzing solutions to make it more equitable and accessible. Her first project is a resource sharing network for founders and leaders of Pacific Northwest Packaged Food & Beverage companies. She then collaboratively launched Community Co-Pack NW a flexible run contract-manufacturer focused on supporting BIPOC & women-led food businesses to scale their businesses. 

 

Hannah obtained a BA in Geography from Vassar College in 2010. She studied food systems & worked on a non-profit educational CSA farm. She was an active organizer in the Real Food Challenge and Kick-Coke Campaign. Returning to Portland she served on the Portland Food Policy Council. She received equity training from the City of Portland and non-violent communication training through Alternatives to Violence Project. Through her experiencing building a mission-driven business, she found business to be a nimbler vehicle for change. She recently completed Lift Economy’s Next Economy MBA program. She is currently serving on the board of Bohemia Food Hub in Cottage Grove.

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Hannah lives in Silverton, Oregon on a small scale market farm with partner, children and many pets where she now grows flowers for the farm's restaurant partner.