Summary
Emily Mcintyre is a seasoned entrepreneur and CEO with a decade of experience building high-growth businesses across the specialty coffee, media, and real estate sectors. As founder and former CEO of Catalyst Trade she scaled an Ethiopian-American import business to $4M ARR, led innovations in supply-chain transparency, and helped source multiple award-winning coffees. She now runs Swift Coffee Sourcing, focusing on resilient import/export channels in the Horn of Africa and Peru, while also managing Midwest real estate investments through T-Mac Holdings. A longtime storyteller and editor, Emily has shaped industry conversation as Executive Editor of STiR and as a journalist whose reporting influenced policy and development in Ethiopia. She blends hands-on operational leadership with marketing and product instincts—having launched the world’s first coffee marketing course and consumer-facing innovations like Crema.co’s algorithm and Slackbot. Based in Kansas City and pursuing an Executive MBA, she pairs global sourcing expertise with a knack for making complex supply chains and stories engaging and actionable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Business Administration and Management General at UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management
English, Spanish