Carissa Barden

Carissa Barden currently serves as the Sr. Director of Hospitality and Away from Home at Steeped Coffee, where responsibilities include updating sales projections and analyzing customer-level data to enhance inventory management and marketing strategies. Prior experience includes a role as Senior National Strategic Account Manager at Farmer Brothers, focusing on developing national sales strategies, and as National Account Manager at The Kraft Heinz Company, where sales opportunities were identified for national commercial customers. Previous positions also feature key sales roles at ARAMARK Refreshment Services, Keurig/Green Mountain Coffee, and ARAMARK, in addition to business development at Punchstock/Uppercut Images and sales management at Kalahari Resort and Convention Center. Barden graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, specializing in Communications and Advertising.