Future 15: Meet Abby Farragh

By Kris Leonhardt
MMC Senior Editor

Leading up to the 2025 Future 15 & Young Professionals Awards banquet on Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Oneida Casino Hotel, we will be highlighting the finalists in each edition of the Press Times.

GREEN BAY – Abby Farragh grew up in Suamico and graduated from Bay Port High School.

She attended college at UW-Eau Claire, where she met her husband, Kaleb Farragh, and obtained a bachelors in business management and certificates in leadership and business communication.

“I had an internship my last summer of college with ALDI — District Manager Internship,” recalled Abby. “That ALDI internship turned into a full-time job offer for after college.

“I graduated from UWEC in winter of 2016, started full-time as a district manager with ALDI in the Faribault Division in January of 2017.

“I lived in Minnesota, Iowa and Chippewa Falls during my training and post-training with ALDI.

“I worked for ALDI for over five years, participated in multiple committees and helped train new district managers.

“After having our first child and wanting to be back closer to family (my family still resides in Suamico and my husband’s family is in Menasha), we started talking about moving back to the Green Bay area in late 2021.

“As I was job searching, I networked with folks back in the Green Bay area, local professionals, and several of them mentioned that I should look into Breakthrough.

“Breakthrough had, at the time, a Director of Client Partnerships role open, so I applied and that’s how our journey to moving home became a reality.”
Abby has been with Breakthrough — a US Venture company — for the past two and a half years.

“My husband and I rooted ourselves in our community – enrolling our children in classes at the local De Pere Community Center, attending church at Green Bay Community Church in Howard, taking swimming lessons at the CP Center and volunteering with several local non-profits,” she said.

At work, Abby is now the director of client success, where she works with a portfolio of clients to “help increase efficiencies, reduce cost, and decarbonize their transportation networks. By doing so, I also help introduce our clients to our suite of products and services, which in turn helps grow the company.”

“I also co-chair our EPIC Committee at Breakthrough, which stands for Employee, Planet, Impact, Community: this is a volunteer committee that brings teammates together for community engagement efforts. We plan employee engagement events, lead sustainability initiatives, decide where to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars of funds annually, and volunteer across several non-profits in our community. I have also led the Community Engagement subcommittee for EPIC, in which I helped to start our annual Volunteer Week, where our team members sign up to volunteer across Green Bay and the Fox Cities for different non-profits.

Here are some other things I am involved in — with the immense support and encouragement from Breakthrough/US Venture — Big Brothers Big Sisters Business Mentoring program.”

Abby also participated in the Leadership Green Bay Class of 2024 and said she isn’t afraid to say “yes” to new challenges.

“I haven’t been afraid to jump into new things, learn as I go, and surround myself with people smarter than me. I like to be challenged, I like to be involved in many things (work and outside of work), and I love to network with new people and put myself out there,” she explained.

“I also seek out ways to continue to grow myself professionally and personally. Maybe it’s a class or a podcast or a book or a personality assessment or a 360 review, or a conference or leadership speaker to go and see; but, I am always seeking out ways to learn more about who I am — as a person and a leader — and be able to apply what I have learned to be a better professional.

“I have also had a few amazing leaders along the way that have believed in me, advocated for me, and said my name in a room full of opportunities, which has helped to grow me immensely.”