TORONTO — Bond Bakery Brands Limited, a stakeholder-focused investment platform accelerating the growth of bakery companies, has announced that Angela Santiago has joined the company’s board of directors.
Santiago co-founded The Little Potato Company 25 years ago along with her father, and she has successfully grown the business from a one-acre plot on the outskirts of Edmonton, Alberta, to more than 14,000 acres in seven states with three state-of-the-art facilities in Canada and the US.
“Angela brings a high level of cross-border food industry and manufacturing expertise to us at Bond,” said Nicolas Mulroney, chairman, president and CEO of Bond Bakery Brands. “We are very excited to welcome her to the board. Angela’s journey in building a Canadian food manufacturer into a multinational category leader will be incredibly valuable to us as we continue our journey of building a leading stakeholder-focused bakery platform. We believe that the knowledge she has developed in her product category can directly apply to the bakery space and have an immediate impact on the growth of our platform.”
Angela brings a high level of cross-border food industry and manufacturing expertise to us at Bond," said Nicolas Mulroney, chairman, president and CEO of Bond Bakery Brands.
“I am very pleased to have the opportunity to join the board of directors at Bond Bakery Brands. While Bond is a relatively new company, I see the momentum building and believe in the power of the platform that Nicolas and the Bond team are building,” Santiago said. “I am impressed by their progress thus far and excited to have the opportunity to assist Bond in realizing its strategic vision and growth objectives while placing significant focus on the company’s environmental and social impacts.”
Angela and her team at The Little Potato Company strive to find more efficient and sustainable ways to grow and package their potatoes. Always looking to innovate, from the packaging to the breeding, the quest for new potato discoveries takes her to regions of the world where potato roots run deep, with breeding programs in South America, Europe and Canada.
Angela has been recognized as a Business in Edmonton Leader in 2015; an Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012 by Ernst & Young; Top Produce Person of the Year by the Ontario Provincial Marketing Association; Top Forty Under Forty in 2011 in Canada; and Alberta’s Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016 and 2021 Top 10 Produce Women in Canada.