About Tina

Chief of Strategy

Tina recognized at a young age that her happiest moments are spent around food and those who appreciate it. Over her 15+ year career, Tina has had the opportunity to unite her passions for eating and marketing, working with renowned companies in food, hospitality and wellness. She holds a BA in Public Relations from Penn State (where she met Corner Market’s founder, Meghan!) and a certification in Holistic Health Coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Most recently, Tina led the Global Consumer PR Team at Whole Foods Market, heading up the brand’s annual Trends reporting and concepting fun, brand-forward partnerships with industry leaders like Headspace and Progressive Insurance. She worked hand-in-hand with the retail marketing team to bring Whole Foods Market’s mission to life everyday.

Tina got her start in the agency world, representing CPG brands like Sam Adams and Gallo Wines, hospitality mainstays like the NYC Wine & Food Festival, Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants, wagamama and Casa Dragones Tequila, and chefs from Michael Symon to Graham Elliot. Over the years, Tina has worn many interesting hats: professional barista, Boston Beer University Graduate, event planner extraordinaire, and food stylist, to name a few.

Tina lives in New Jersey with her two young sons and loves cooking, grocery shopping and her Peloton.
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About Meghan

Founder & CEO

Meghan has represented 60+ brands through in-house, agency and consulting roles including Oatly, KIND, Google/Waze, Banza, Safeway, Magnolia Bakery, General Mills and Pepsi. As a consultant, she has served as the interim CMO and CCO for multiple companies, leading go-to-market strategy and brand positioning beyond communications.

Meghan is certified in nutrition through the Tufts x Ketchum Nutrition Certification Program and holds a Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate from T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Some of her favorite "wins" include turning a little known Swedish oat milk company into a new iconic brand (Oatly); leading Safeway's PRSA Silver Anvil award-winning campaign; sharing traffic reports on Good Morning America as a Waze spokesperson and having her Waze marketing strategy converted into a Harvard Business School case study. 

Meghan’s known for her media relations skills, having secured cornerstone business and consumer features that drove awareness, web traffic and sales for brands. In addition to leading all strategy and business communications for all clients, Meghan is a crisis specialist and has handled everything from voluntary recalls and FDA complaints to data breaches and CSR-related issues. 

Meghan is committed to supporting the growth of the next generation of business leaders and communications professionals. She serves as a mentor for SKU, is an advisor for multiple companies in and outside of food and has guest lectured universities including NYU and Syracuse. She recently moved to Austin, Texas after 13 years in New York. 
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About Sami

COO

Sami has worked with some of the biggest names in food & CPG, including IHOP, S.Pellegrino, Perrier, JOHNSON'S Baby and SharkNinja, to help them refine and renew their relationship with consumers. As part of the award-winning team that executed the IHOb campaign in 2018, Sami has seen how impactful the right kind of PR can be for a business. She also helped launch the Ninja Foodi in 2018, and worked on the global rebrand of JOHNSON'S in 2017.

Prior to "big brand PR", Sami worked with celebrity chefs (including Anne Burrell, Geoffrey Zakarian & Alex Guarnaschelli) as well as restaurants and events to amplify their presence across all mediums: TV, print, online and emerging digital platforms.

Sami shifted to consulting in July 2020 during a pivotal time for PR, as consumer behaviors shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her love of delicious food and wellness made for a seamless transition to the Corner Market (formerly MKTC Consulting) team. Today, she leads consumer relations for Corner Market's partners, as well as all operations for the agency.
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Sami lives outside of Philadelphia, P.A. with her husband.
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About Faith

Account Executive

Faith began her career with Corner Market (formerly MKTC Consulting) as an intern and quickly became the agency’s go-to for regional and eCommerce-related media relations. She supports media and influencer communications efforts across nearly all of Corner Market’s clients and is known for her tenacity in uncovering new fans of all brands. 

Faith recently graduated from The University of Oklahoma with a degree in public relations and a minor in enterprise studies. She currently lives in Norman, Oklahoma. 
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About Sirena

Influencer & Affiliate Coordinator

From gracing the stages of theatres for decades to playing a role in every industry imaginable, Sirena prides herself in bringing her diverse background professionally and culturally to the table. 

Sirena serves as our influencer guru, creating and executing earned seeding programs across a mix of Corner Market clients. An influencer and podcast host herself, Sirena founded and runs Chara, a PR and events agency that supports local Austin health & wellness brands. 

Sirena graduated from York University with a degree in environmental studies and spent a portion of her undergraduate program at Columbia College Chicago studying PR and advertising. She is a certified personal trainer and holistic nutritionist and is also certified in reiki, breathwork and other forms of holistic wellness. She currently lives in Austin with her pup, Moxie.
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About Jacqui

Freelance Consultant

With 10+ years of experience in fast-paced PR agency roles, Jacqui is an independent consultant providing PR, media relations and communications services to consumer-facing startups and businesses. Founded in mid-2020, Attention to Detail Public Relations has serviced clients including Kenny Flowers, Corner Market Communications, Day One Ventures, Essentia Water, Smirnoff,Public Goods, Zola, and more.

Jacqui was previously a Senior Director at Small Girls PR, where she worked for 5 years leading a team driving and executing PR strategies on behalf of several services, products and apps in the tech and lifestyle space. Clients included DoorDash, Zola, SHOWFIELDS, TaskRabbit, Modsy, Hinge, UrbanStems, Gett, Absolut Art, Lose It!, Xdesk, FORTO, The Tylt, P&G's Each & Every, Noken, Bungalo Homes, Tivoli Audio, evian and more.

Before joining Small Girls, Jacqui spent three years at BIGfish Communications in Boston becoming an expert on launching new products & companies in the media and developing relationships with reporters. She attended CES for three years in a row with tech-focused clients such as Ring and worked with travel and luxury brands including Blue Lagoon, Icelandair, Icelandic Glacial and the City of Reykjavik.

Jacqui graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in journalism and focus on public relations. She also minored in French and studied abroad in Montpellier, France. Originally from Maryland just outside of D.C., she has called NYC home since 2015. Jacqui, her husband Jake, their daughter, chocolate lab Trooper and cat Merlin also love to spend several weeks a year at their ski house in Vermont.

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About Danielle

Freelance Consultant

Danielle is a communications strategist specializing in public relations, brand partnerships and social media. She works with startups and established brands in lifestyle, wellness, travel and tech industries to develop strategic communications plans that incorporate media outreach, content creation, podcast and speaking programs, influencer campaigns and events. 

Danielle graduated from Loyola University with a degree in PR, Advertising and Applied Communications. She currently lives in New York City. 

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About Ashley

Freelance consultant

Ashley curates unique strategies to drive consumer and investor awareness for start-ups, women, and minority-owned brands. From health and wellness to RTD and CPG, she develops dynamic, results-driven approaches for brands that drive awareness and visibility. 

Ashley graduated from DePaul University with a degree in PR, Advertising and Applied Communications. She currently lives in Chicago. 

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About Cayley

Intern

Cayley is Corner Market’s 2022-2023 Fall and Summer Intern after interning for the agency during the summer of 2022. Cayley has already shown that she’s one to watch in communications due to her scrappiness, eagerness to learn and excitement for the field of public relations. 

Cayley is currently a senior at Texas A&M, studying to get her bachelor’s degree in PR and a minor in sports management. 
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Welcome to Corner Market.

Corner Market Communications (formerly MKTC) specializes in integrative communications strategy and execution for packaged food and beverage brands that typically can be found at your local corner store. From media and influencer relations to partnerships and crisis communications, we become an extension of your internal team on day one and work alongside our partners to accelerate brand awareness and advance your broader business goals. 

From startups to Fortune 500s, we work alongside brilliant teams to build iconic brands.

We have two rules when it comes to who we work with: 
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The first: we only work with products we truly love and want to recommend to everyone we cross paths with.
The second, and most important: we only work with founders and teams we genuinely respect and admire!

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Our Team

Whether you need a publicist who specializes in D2C and affiliate marketing or a consultant who knows how to build the street cred of a CEO or founder through storytelling, we construct our client teams to meet your specific business needs.

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Meghan Kelleher

Founder & CEO

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Sami Newman

Chief of Operations

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Tina Clabbers

Chief of Strategy

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Faith Troutman

Account Executive

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Sirena Abalian

Influencer & Affiliate Coordinator

Cayley Werner

Cayley Werner

Intern

Our Consultants

We work with a network of amazing freelancers; here’s a snapshot of some of our longest-standing consultants.

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Ashley Duarte

Freelance Consultant

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Jacqui Wimberly

Freelance Consultant

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Danielle Donchetz

Freelance Consultant

Our Partners

Beyond our amazing freelancers and consultants, we work alongside some of the best agencies and teams to support your integrative marketing needs. From experiential and stunt creators to designers and community managers, we can help connect!
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Corner Market's passion, industry knowledge and work ethic is unrivaled and they always show up with a “How else can we help?” attitude.

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