Natosha Walsh

As the vice president of Retail Marketing for Convenient Meals and Proteins, Natosha Walsh is responsible for the strategic marketing efforts for many of the company’s leading brands, including SPAM^®, Skippy^® peanut butter and Justin’s^® nut butters.

Hormel Foods is a global branded food company with over $12 billion in annual revenue across more than 80 countries worldwide. Its brands include Planters^®, Skippy^®, SPAM^®, Hormel^® Natural Choice^®, Applegate^®, Justin’s^®, Columbus^®, WHOLLY^® Guacamole, Hormel^® Black Label^® and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named one of the best companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report, one of America’s most responsible companies by Newsweek, recognized by TIME magazine as one of the World’s Best Companies, received a perfect score of 100 on the 2023–24 Corporate Equality Index and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts.

Walsh graduated from Kansas State University with degrees in marketing and international business and began her career with the company in 1999. Throughout her career, she has developed a cross functional background by holding positions of increasing responsibility in sales, trade and category management, customer account leadership, supply chain and brand management. She was named vice president and senior vice president of sales in the consumer products sales division in 2018 and vice president of retail sales – national chains in 2022. She assumed her current position in 2023.

She has a passion to drive culture and a growth mind set within the organization and within her community. She currently is the Co-Chair of Impact Austin which is an organization that brings community leaders together to focus on driving economic growth within the Austin community.