Kevin Stalcup | Director of Operations at Ivar’s Production Plant

Kevin has worked with us for 32 years, and is now our Director of Operations. He’s proud to have built a stable crew where competent work is valued and rewarded. He likes to play golf and follow NASCAR and football.
Email : kevin@keepclam.com

Chris Lewark | Director of Sales and Marketing

Chris, a Seattle native, is our Director of Sales and Marketing. He built the sales organizations for Food Service, Club and Retail channels for Ivar’s Soup and Sauce Company. In his 26-year tenure at the factory, he went from being the only employee selling—and delivering—to managing a direct sales force, broker support, and dozens of points of distribution. In his spare time, he likes to play football with his boys.
Email : cpl@keepclam.com

Peg Hamill | Retail Sales Manager and Food Service Sales and Marketing Executive

Peg Hamill wears a lot of hats—she’s our Food Service Account Executive, Retail Sales Executive, and Marketing Manager. She was amply prepared for the task after spending 19 years at Starbucks in global products sales and marketing. Outside work, she likes outdoor excursions like hiking, swimming, and camping.
Email : pegh@keepclam.com

Steven “Omar” Field | Director of Purchasing

He started out as dishwasher for Ivar’s, moved to a pantry cook, fryer and dinner cook, to Sous Chef, to Executive Chef, and then director of Full Service Operations before landing the Director of Purchasing position. Prior to starting with Ivar’s 33 years ago, Omar was a chef at six restaurants, a wine shop manager, and a creator of Soup and Salad Quick Serve Concepts.
Email : omar@keepclam.com

Tom John Ward | Food Service Sales Manager

Coming all the way from Spokane, Tom worked 10 years as an apprentice trained Hotel and Country Club Executive Chef. Tom is our Food Service Manager who manages our distributors, brokers and operators in the Food Service Channel. When he’s not selling soup with a passion, he’s an avid hiker and backpacker.
Email : Tomw@keepclam.com

Mat Hudgens | Food Service and Club Account Executive

Mat Hudgens hails from Covington, Washington. He supports the Club Sales division, plus new distributors and chain accounts, working with clients to best fulfill their needs. He likes working for a company that treats employees like family.
Email : MatH@keepclam.com

Harry Roberts | Chief Clɐm

Director at Ivar's Soup & Sauce Co., Founder and Chairman of Pallino, and Founder of Barnbanners Art Studio. Harry Roberts has had a busy career, and a lot of his jobs have started with the letter C, like COO, CEO, and Cool Hunter. Harry has spent the last 50 years creating, inventing, designing, marketing, managing, collaborating and innovating for many of the top global consumer goods companies: Starbucks Coffee, JC Penney, Calico Corners, Kitchen Kaboodle, Apple, Gaggia Spa, Chart House Restaurants, Pallino and Ivar's, to name a few.
Email : harryr@keepclam.com