Petaluma vegan food producer takes business to next level at entrepreneurial boot camp

In July, a Petaluma woman started a stint at a unique boot camp, one set up by a Seattle-based law firm specifically to give women a leg up in the food and beverage business.

Davis Wright Tremaine, which manages eight offices for its 580 attorneys with one in San Francisco, looked north to Sonoma County’s Renegade Foods in accepting Iona Campbell’s application to learn all about business administration in the seven-week crash course. Campbell’s company creates vegan food products.

“It’s invaluable knowledge I’m not going to find on the Internet,” Campbell, 36, said, citing the study of business contracts as one example. “What’s really amazing to me is that they bring people in with food and packaged goods experience.”

She’s also expanded her exposure to the big guns of vegetarian foods by hearing advice from a representative of Beyond Meat, which produces plant-based meat patties.

“I was raised a vegetarian. Being a…

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