Trish Karter is an American entrepreneur and the founder of the Dancing Deer Baking Co.

Early life and education

Karter is a graduate of Lyme-Old Lyme High School, Wheaton College, and the

Yale School of Management The Yale School of Management (also known as Yale SOM) is the graduate business school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executiv ...

.Self-Rising Survivor, Wheaton Quarterly, Spring, 2002
She is the daughter of

Peter Karter Peter Karter (1922–2010) was an American nuclear engineer and one of the pioneers of the modern recycling industry. He lived in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Karter was one of the leading innovators in materials recycling and the first to enginee ...

, a pioneer of the modern materials recycling industry. Karter lives in

Milton, Massachusetts Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an affluent suburb of Boston. The population was 28,630 at the 2020 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and architect Buckminster Fuller. ...

and is the mother of two children, Dimitri and Eleanna Antoniou.

Career

Karter was the founder and CEO of the Dancing Deer Baking Company, a Boston-based producer of high-end, natural baked goods for nationwide distribution.[Get your ship together: how great leaders inspire ownership from the keel up, D. Michael Abrashoff, Portfolio, 2005, Chapter II, CEO Trish Karter makes the Deer Dance, pp. 37 ff. The company is known for its commitment to employing and providing opportunity to individuals from deprived backgrounds.
"How a Social Mission Guides This Business; The CEO of Dancing Deer moved her cookie company to a gang-ridden neighborhood and donates a third of the profits of one product line to charity. Can this be good for business?'' Inc., Josh Spiro, April 2, 2010.
Baking Principles into the Business; How Dancing Deer, a small Boston bakery, rose up to become a multimillion-dollar business -- without losing its socially responsible core values, Stacy Perman, Business Week, December 13, 2005.Values Sell: Transforming Purpose in to Profit Through Creative Sales and Distribution Strategies, Nadine A. Thompson, 2008, p.79. The company is noted for producing all-natural, preservative-free products. Karter is also an artist; part of the success of the Dancing Deer line of baked goods is credited to the "whimsical" figures that she has created to decorate the company's packaging.

References

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