Board
Ryan Pintado-Vertner
Board Member
Ryan Pintado-Vertner is a Chicago-based strategic marketing veteran with two decades of experience guiding the strategy, marketing and innovation choices of Fortune-level brands, startups, and nonprofit organizations. He earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C.-Berkeley.
Ryan believes it’s not enough to create yet another brand in the marketplace. We have to go beyond the basics to create brands that will bring more justice, regeneration, equity and wellness to the world.
He is the Founder & CEO at Smoketown, a boutique brand consultancy whose growth strategy practice and fractional CMO services build brands that help their entire ecosystems flourish. Smoketown specializes in mission-driven brands. Clients have included Bragg Live Foods, Purely Elizabeth, DeeBee’s Organics and Aura Bora.
He is also a board member at Mad Agriculture, an advisor at Trailhead Capital and Whipstitch Capital, and a co-founder of (included), the largest peer network of BIPOC CEOs in the CPG industry.