Her Story
About Brynn
Brynn Prophet is the Executive Assistant to the CSO and VP of Finance at Pacific Seafood, a company in the food processing and distribution industry focused primarily on protein and fish products. Based in Clackamas, Oregon, near Portland, she has been with the company for just shy of three and a half years and brings over nine years of total experience to her role. Her responsibilities include managing calendars for two executives, assisting with tax audits, drafting and tracking three to five contracts weekly alongside the legal team, supporting mergers and acquisitions documents, and providing board-level financial data assistance. Prior to this position, Prophet worked as an office manager in construction, as a family law paralegal where she gained hands-on experience entering orders and speaking with judges, and for over three years at iHeartMedia as an inventory control coordinator managing twelve radio stations across Spokane, Washington, and Anchorage, Alaska. She attended Montana State University where she studied marketing and completed specialized paralegal training under an attorney. In January, she received the Women in Leadership and Management Award from the Clackamas County Corporation Division. Prophet attributes her success entirely to her mother, who raised her in Idaho and instilled valuable lessons early on. She advises young women entering the workforce to speak up confidently and to prioritize networking, noting that professional connections often prove more valuable than knowledge alone. She identifies tariffs impacting imports and exports as well as the rapid adoption of AI as key challenges in her field, while seeing opportunities in product innovation to better meet customer needs.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Brynn
01What do you attribute your success to?
My success is 100% because of my mother. She raised us incredibly well and taught us very valuable things early and often. It's because of her that I am who I am today and where I am today. She still lives in the home I grew up in back in Idaho.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Speak up more. Especially as a young woman entering the workforce, it's still sometimes hard to feel like you can have a voice in a room. Speaking up and being able to articulate yourself in a calm manner, and standing up for your own ideas is the best thing you can do.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
It's a lot more about who you know than what you know. I've proven that multiple times over. Just make the right connections, keep your ears and eyes up and make those connections.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges include tariffs affecting imports and exports in food processing and distribution, creating market pressures, and the fast-moving adoption of AI which I embrace but work to keep up with. Opportunities lie in innovation around products and what we can offer customers, adding value by innovating towards what customers want.
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