Kelly Morgan First Key Consulting
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Kelly Morgan
Senior Advisor, Marketing & Sales

Kelly Morgan is a senior commercial and route to market advisor with 20+ years’ experience in building, scaling, and optimizing go to market models across beverage alcohol and THC beverages. At First Key, Kelly partners with leadership teams to design effective route to market strategies, strengthen distributor and channel performance, and translate commercial strategy into disciplined execution.

Her work spans distributor selection and contracting, channel and portfolio strategy, commercial planning, and risk management, helping clients unlock sustainable growth in complex, highly regulated, and rapidly evolving markets. Kelly built a career leading high impact commercial, sales, and marketing teams at Constellation Brands, Beam Suntory and Diageo. She led national distributor strategy overseeing more than $2B in distributor contracts and guided enterprise wide performance management, ROI modeling, and governance processes. Earlier roles included leading national and regional sales organizations through periods of channel disruption, delivering record distributor revenue, driving double digit chain growth, and restructuring go to market approaches to improve forecasting accuracy, margin performance, and executional discipline. She has managed multimillion dollar investment budgets, developed award winning activation platforms, and negotiated national sports sponsorships, ensuring brand strategy, commercial marketing, and route to market execution are tightly aligned. Kelly applies this integrated lens to help clients commercialize innovation, enter new categories, and build scalable go to market models across traditional beverage and THC beverage adjacent channels.

Kelly holds an Executive MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Miami University, along with WSET II certification and Harvard’s Emerging Executive Program. Kelly enjoys spending time outdoors in her home state of Montana.