Nia Kiara Hayes

Co-founder & CTO at Trellis Foods · D2C food brands · consumer brands, marketing

Trellis Foods

Denver, CO · MT (UTC-7)

6+ years experience

University of Washington

English

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Overview

Founder of Trellis Foods (D2C food brands). 6 years of building before that. Grew the team to 103 people across 2 countries. Signed 379 paying customers, 19 of them enterprises. Before that: Amazon and Kaiser Permanente. Most at home with marketing and supply chain. I write a small newsletter about D2C food brands.

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supply chainmarketingconsumer brandsSaaS

Experience

Co-founder & CTO
Dec 2025 - Present
Trellis Foods · 10 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
- Raised $33 million across 3 rounds.
- Took Trellis Foods from zero to $3 million ARR.
Consultant
Apr 2024 - Dec 2025
Amazon · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Delivered 27 engagements across 3 countries.
- Ran commercial diligence on 10 deals.
Associate Partner
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
Kaiser Permanente · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Grew the developer experience team from 5 to 13 engineers.
- Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
Business Analyst
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
Apple · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Denver, CO
- Shipped 8 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
- Brought on-call pages for storage down from 32 a week to 4.

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Education

University of Washington
BS, Economics
2016 - 2020

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