#intros

Hey everyone, super excited to be here!

Name: Jack Richardson
📍 Location: Manhattan (might be moving to SF later this year)
💼 Current Role: Director of Strategic Sales at Maui Nui Venison (wild-harvested axis deer from Maui). I joined Maui Nui this past summer after having previously spent time in venture banking, startups, and consulting.

🎯 Focus Areas: Maui Nui has largely focused on DTC to date and I came on to build out our wholesale and food service channels. Good fits for us are retail, gyms, sports teams for our meat sticks and restaurants for our fresh cuts. Might be posting on LinkedIn soon to share a story about selling venison while in ski boots in Big Sky, MT haha
🧠 Hobbies: working out with my wife and friends at The Athletic Clubs, Othership, softball in Central Park (winter couldn't end soon enough...), angel investing, writing business-breakdown style newsletters (prior features: Equinox, Erewhon, Maui Nui (the genesis of where I ended up today); https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-richardson-18527684/recent-activity/all/)
💬 Some Topics I’m Interested in Connecting About: win-win partnership structures, people management / team-building skills, approaches to maximizing IRL industry conferences
🤝 How I Can Help WGM: intros to founders at health and wellness CPG brands, intros to investors in regen ag, frameworks that lay at the intersection between finance, ops, and sales
✨ How WGM Can Help Me: excited to learn from everyone in this group, across all health and wellness verticals. Two specific call-outs: trying to create a 1/ co-branded tallow skincare balm using the Axis deer suet fat AND a 2/ co-branded pet food topper using the Axis deer offal. Skincare play could be with an existing tallow brand, plant-based brand that wants to expand into tallow, or health and wellness brand looking to leverage their customer base and expand their product portfolio (for example, I find it so interesting that there's a number of brands that all sell mouth tape, nasal strips, a tallow balm, and mastic chewing gum).