Nicole Sawyer serves as the Partnership & Licensing Manager of Mass. Bay Brewing Company, aka, the Harpoon Brewery or MBBC. Nicole graduated from James Madison University in 2012 with a degree in Communication. After graduating she worked in healthcare for 5 years. Realizing she needed a switch; she started in 2017 as a Beer Captain in the Boston Harpoon Beer Hall. Since 2017 she has had multiple roles in the company. Currently she manages
partnerships, sponsorships, licensing opportunities and Harpoon Helps for the company. Harpoon Helps is Harpoon’s charitable arm of the company which has two annual events, the Harpoon 5-Miler, a run every May with 5,000 where proceeds go to the Angel Fund for ALS research, and Harpoon Dogtoberfest. Harpoon Dogtoberfest has proceeds split between the Kenary Brain Tumor Research Fund at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as well as the MSPCA. Nicole has served for four years as the company representative for the Massachusetts Brewer’s Guild,
and as a member of MBBC’s Diversity Inclusion and Unity Committee.