Kelly Heyworth is a global business leader with more than 30 years of experience in the brewing and beverage industry across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia Pacific. As Chief Executive Officer of First Key Consulting, Kelly is responsible for setting the firm’s strategic direction, driving sustainable growth, and ensuring the delivery of exceptional, measurable impact for clients across the global beverage ecosystem. Kelly also has a hands on role with senior client executives, advising boards, CEOs, and commercial leaders on transformational initiatives spanning growth strategy, operating model redesign, M&A, distributor and customer partnerships, improving efficiencies and revenue optimization.

Before joining First Key, Kelly held senior global leadership roles at both Diageo and Anheuser Busch InBev (AB InBev). Most recently, as Global Sales Vice President at Diageo, she developed and implemented a comprehensive global sales strategy that transformed routes to market and customer partnerships, step changing revenue growth while reducing cost to serve. Across her tenure at Diageo and AB InBev, Kelly held senior executive roles and spearheaded large scale global transformation programs focused on go to market strategy, route to market optimization, process improvement, capability building, data driven decision making, and digital enablement. She has also led mergers and acquisitions (M&A) due diligence and post merger integration initiatives, including work across African markets.

Kelly holds an undergraduate degree from McMaster University and has completed executive education programs at Queen’s University, INSEAD, and Wharton. Outside of First Key, Kelly is active in supporting local community charities, mentoring fellow associates globally, and enjoying time hiking with her husband and yellow Labrador.