Kavy Lenon
Meijer Supplier Inclusion Manager & Stage Emcee
Kavy Lenon serves as the Supplier Inclusion Manager at Meijer focusing on local and diverse vendors. For the past decade, she has been a contributor in promoting the growth of diverse-owned businesses through coaching, educating, advocating and community outreach. Lenon is also a successful businesswomen herself, having created the ZINI premium vodka brand in a male-dominated industry. As one of very few Southeast Asian women in the industry, she wanted to ensure ZINI was more than just a vodka brand infused with exotic fruits from her home country of Laos. ZINI is an uplifting message for women all over … an invitation for women to become ZINI: Zealous, Intelligent, Natural and Independent.
Lenon serves as the Vice President for the Veteran Owned Business Roundtable, Commissioner for the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Co-Chair of the Grand Rapids Asian Pacific Foundation. She has been honored as the 2021 Top 25 diversity Change Leaders by DiversityPlus Magazine, 2022 Top Women in Grocery by Progressive Grocers and 2023 Leadership in the Workplace Honoree by Women Thrive.