Crystal is currently the Vice President of Growth & Innovation for Crystal Creamery based in Modesto, CA. Crystal Creamery is privately owned and operated by the Foster Family. The operation is one of the few West of the Mississippi that is fully integrated from farm to delivery truck. The company owns 5 of its own farms with much of the remaining milk sourced from independent farmers.
In the Growth & Innovation role, Crystal focuses her efforts on business development of value-added dairy and ice cream products with recent attention to the Organic category and clean label product and program execution. She also directly manages business and expansion of key customers that are in growth mode and looking to expand through product revolution. Crystal has worked in the dairy industry her entire career having started as a Territory Manager at a regional dairy (Penn Dairies) soon after college and her most recent role prior to Crystal Creamery was as the Senior Vice President – Retail/Club/FS/Ingredients/PL/International for Alouette Cheese USA (now Savencia) for 12 years.
Crystal holds a BS in Business Administration from Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown PA and earned a Leadership Certificate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
She strongly supports the Ronald McDonald House Charities, as well as Be the Match Foundation.
