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Nicki Schroeder

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Chief Brand Architect at RightLane Brands
📍 United States

Nicki Schroeder is a brand, design, and marketing leader with over 20 years of experience building successful consumer ventures. She co-founded and scaled High Road Craft Ice Cream into an Inc. 5000 company. She holds a Master of Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design and now leads YAX Culinary Inc.

Nickis passions converge at the intersection of food, travel, and design. Outside of her entrepreneurial ventures, she enjoys a variety of personal interests, including golf, yoga, gardening, and boating. She is also actively involved in her community, recently hosting a charity pizza-making class with her husband.

She and her husband, a James Beard Award-winning chef, bootstrapped their ice cream company, initially focusing exclusively on making ice cream for other chefs before expanding into retail.

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Experience
30 Years
Current Role
Chief Brand Architect
Job Level
Senior
Location
United States
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Emerging Food Brands
Through RightLane Brands, she consults for emerging U. S. brands and helps Mexico-based companies prepare for export.
Yucatán Cuisine
Her current company, YAX Culinary Inc. , develops snack lines that celebrate and share the ancestral ingredients and indigenous foodways of the Yucatán Peninsula.
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Career

Work history

11-2025
Chief Brand Architect
RightLane Brands
9-2024 - 11-2025
Advisor
RightLane Brands
11-2025
Chief Executive Officer
YAX Culinary Inc
3-2025
Co-Founder
YAX Culinary Inc
10-2022
Partner
Schroeder Hospitality Group
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Education
1-2010 - 5-2012
Master of Arts - MA
Savannah College of Art and Design
Fine and Studio Arts
State University of New York at Oswego
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