Our Team

The People Behind the Veggies

Tom McDougall

Tom McDougall

Founder and CEO

Tom McDougall is the Founder and CEO of 4P Foods, a Public Benefit corporation launched in 2014 which operates a food hub network based in the Mid-Atlantic. 4P works with over 200 small farmers, ranchers, and food producers; aggregating, storing, and distributing their food into multiple different channels, including schools, hospitals, restaurants, and a network of Food-is-Medicine partnerships.

As an advocate for equitable and regenerative food systems, Tom is a current Fellow with the Aspen Institute’s Food Leaders Fellowship Program. In 2019, he helped Co-Found the Eastern Food Hub Collaborative, a network of mission aligned food hubs up and down the Eastern Seaboard, for the purpose of regional collaboration and a more cohesive, decentralized food supply chain. Tom is an entrepreneur, an activist, and an attempted gardener.

Favorite Fruit or Veggie:

Kohlrabi. Mostly because he gets to reference Aliens when he describes what it looks like.