Kelly Bennett is a New York City–based brand strategist behind CPG food & beverage ideas becoming brands hitting retail shelves next.

After 20 years of experience building emerging brands, Kelly found her niche in CPG food and beverage and now works with some of the hottest emerging brands hitting retail shelves next, including Cotto and She's the Sauce.

She hosts the Emerging Brands Podcast®, discovering CPG brands hitting your retail shelves next, with new episodes every Monday. On the show, she interviews founders scaling into retailers like Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Target.

Kelly also writes a weekly Substack, With Kelly Bennett, where she shares discoveries from her podcast, home, and clients hitting retail shelves next.

Newly an angel investor, Kelly backs emerging CPG food & beverage brands and the operations scaling their retail footprint.