Jodi Berg, President and CEO of Cleveland-based Vitamix Corporation, will kick off the Hudson Library & Historical Society’s Fall 2016 Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurship Series. Berg will discuss her career trajectory and rise to CEO, and her role in transforming Vitamix into a major global brand.

Berg became president and CEO of Vitamix in 2009 and is the fourth generation to run the 95-year-old family-owned company based in Olmsted Township.  The company is widely recognized for producing the world’s finest high-performance blending equipment.  Vitamix products are manufactured in Northeast Ohio and sold in over 100 countries.  In 2014, Berg received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She recently published The Vitamix Cookbook: 250 Delicious Whole Food Recipes To Make in your Blender.