Tampa Bay Chamber Involvement

• Board of Directors – Chair-Elect

Cammie Chatterton is one of the first women in the U.S. to own a retail food brokerage business, having established Bay Food Brokerage in 1993. Along with her executive and entrepreneurial leadership as CEO and President of Bay Food Brokerage for over 32 years, she has three decades of experience in perishable foods, predominately focusing on the meat, dairy, seafood and deli side of the retail industry.

In her current role, Cammie leverages her long-standing vision and values to help guide Bay Food Brokerage through high-level guidance and support to the executive team, as well as to representatives of Bay Food’s manufacturer clients and retailer partners.

Leadership positions Cammie currently holds include:

• Board of Directors for Feeding Tampa Bay
• Board of Trustees and Trustees Affairs Committee Chair of Jesuit High School
• Development Committee for A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay·      

Cammie is a member of:

• CEO Council of Tampa Bay
• The Florida chapter of Grocery Manufacturers’ Representatives (GMR) (and past board member)
• Florida Frozen and Fresh Manufacturers Representatives
• International Dairy Deli Bakery Association (IDDBA)
• National Protein and Food Distributors Association (NPFDA)
• North American Meat Institute (NAMI)

Cammie has been recognized as:

• Honoree for Girls Inc. of Pinellas County’s Women in STEAM Luncheon in 2025
• Finalist for Tampa Bay Chamber’s Dottie Berger MacKinnon Woman of Influence Award in 2025
• Winner of the A Kid’s Place of Tampa Bay’s Dottie Berger MacKinnon Award in 2025
• Winner for Tampa Bay Business and Wealth's Apogee Awards, Founder of a Large Corporation Category in 2024
• Finalist for Tampa Bay Business and Wealth's Business Women of the Year in 2023
• Tampa Bay Chamber’s Outstanding Business Leader of the Year Award in 2022
• Finalist for Tampa Bay Business and Wealth’s Philanthropists of the Year in 2022
• Honoree for the Business Observer's Top Entrepreneur in 2022
• Honoree in Progressive Grocer’s Top Women in Grocery issue in 2022
• Honoree The Shelby Report’s Women of Influence in the Food Industry in 2021
• Finalist for the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s BusinessWoman of the Year in 2019·      

Under Cammie’s leadership, Bay Food Brokerage has won the Tampa Bay Chamber’s Small Business of the Year Award in 2020 in the 21-50 Employees category and has made the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s annual Largest Women-Owned Businesses List every year since 2019.

Cammie graduated from Marshall University in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in business management and communications. Her personal interests include spending time with family, friends and spoiling the grandchildren; traveling to new places and the places she loves going back to; cheering on the Bucs, Lightning, Jesuit and WVU sports; and relaxing at home with a good book by the pool and lake.