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Katie Poehling Seymour

President
First Supply
Katie Poehling Seymour is the President at First Supply overseeing operations for the company’s over 600 employees in 29 distribution locations and 19 retail kitchen and bath stores in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Michigan.

Katie graduated from Arizona State University with a degree is accountancy and certificate in International Business and the University of Notre Dame Law School. She worked at Deloitte in tax consulting prior to joining First Supply.

Katie is active in the American Heart Association Go Red for Women. She serves as chair of the Affiliated Distributors Decorative Brands Board of Directors, on the board of the American Supply Association, and the Kitchen & Bath Business magazine advisory council. She is founding chair of the American Supply Association Women in Industry division and was named the 2020 Alice A Martin Woman of the Year by the American Supply Association. Today, Katie lives in Fox Point, WI with her three daughters and husband, Jeff.

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