About Me — Kathryn Dillon

It’s not so much a list of accomplishments as a portrait of a life

I despise having my picture taken but I like to document fun experiences. This collage includes a couple of post-race photos from a few years ago plus selfies from some theme parties my husband and I threw for ourselves during the pandemic. Because that’s how we roll. And yes, we do have a disco ball in our dining room. Doesn’t everyone?

I’ve been many things throughout the course of my life, and I suppose they all add up to who I am now.

I am a small-college-town, Ohio-born daughter, a wife, a mom of cats. I am a global product manager by day and a writer in all the spare moments, the nooks and crannies of time I can steal for myself.

I was a student and I have the degrees to prove it (BS in Magazine Journalism, MBA in Marketing, what seems like many years ago) but my love of learning is perpetual, eternal. When we stop discovering, stop being curious, we might as well be dead.

I co-owned a business — restaurant and nightclub — and I think it’s important for you to know about that if you want to understand what makes me tick. Even though I now work in the corporate sector, the years I spent as part of that business were the most rewarding and influential of my career.

I’m a believer in the journey but sometimes dangerously obsessed with the destination. I’m trying to remedy that because very few paths are straight and narrow.

I’m a food lover but not a food snob. I probably enjoy craft beer and wine a bit too much. I adore my Cleveland Indians baseball team but am not at all upset about the…