Welcome to Season 9 of the Troubleshooting Innovation podcast. Joanie Spencer, editor-in-chief for Commercial Baking, is spending this season with Darlene Nicosia, CEO of Hearthside Food Solutions. They're talking about operations, culture and innovation … behind the curtain of co-manufacturing. Sponsored by Reading Bakery Systems.

In the first episode, Joanie and Darlene walk through Hearthside’s history and explore the career timeline that led Darlene to the food industry’s largest contract manufacturer.