Title: President & CEO
Workplace: Delaware Restaurant Association
Alma Mater: Syracuse University
Boards: National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
What was your first job? “Banquet server at a golf club.”
For 24 years, Carrie Leishman has served as president and CEO of the Delaware Restaurant Association, advocating for more than 2,000 restaurants and their more than 50,000 employees — who together account for Delaware’s largest small business employer and over $2.6 billion in annual sales. During her tenure, she’s overseen the inception of the Delaware Restaurant Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the association responsible for attracting, empowering and advancing the local industry’s workforce. Leishman also is an adjunct professor at the University of Delaware’s hospitality management program.
