Our principals and industry venture partners have 350 years of combined experience, contacts and connections.
Mark Baum
Partner , MARCAT Group LLC
Consumer sales and marketing expert with intimate retailer/manufacturer relationships, including as former COO, Grocery Manufacturers Association and Managing Director, CPG Practice, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants.
Bob Burke
Principal, Natural Products Consulting Institute
Sought-after advisor and consultant to high growth companies leveraging his consulting experience since 1998 and previous 11 years leading sales and marketing at Stonyfield Farm to become the world's leading organic yogurt company.
Rachel Cullen
President, Ice Cream Division, Dean Foods and former COO, Orange Glo
Seasoned Kraft and Unilever executive who led the exponential growth of the OxiClean, Kaboom and OrangeGlo cleaning products and sale to Church & Dwight for $325 million. Expertise includes deep knowledge of building businesses via direct response television (DRTV).
Steve Hill
President, Black Flag Brands
Career household products executive with Clorox, Scotts and Spectrum Brands turned entrepreneur, having purchased and re-invigorated the Black Flag brand of insect control products.
Bruce Nierenberg
Founder & Former CEO, B.I.N. Sales and Marketing Inc
Veteran of the grocery and natural products industry having built the largest sales brokerage in the East. Acquired by Advantage Sales & Marketing. Early investor and partner to management in Glaceau Vitamin Water.
Tony Olson
Chairman & CEO, SPINS Inc.
Natural products industry veteran as leader of premier provider of industry reporting and consulting services and previously as a sales executive with Odwalla.
Barbara Pickens
President, Pickens & Company
Executive search consultant focused exclusively in the consumer products and retail industry.
Gil Pritchard
former President & CEO, Avalon Natural Products
Three-time growth-oriented leader with proven results growing Avalon and previously at nSpired Foods and Barbara's Bakery. Board of Directors of gDiapers.
Don Roland
Vice Chairman, Hess Printing Solutions
Savvy marketing services executive and member of The Printing Industry Hall of Fame. Former Chairman/CEO of Vertis Communications, the $1.5 billion industry leader that offers world-class consulting, creative, research, direct, media, technology and production services.
Tom Simone
Vice Chairman, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI)
Natural products and healthcare industry veteran since 1996 with UNFI, the country's largest wholesale distributor to natural and organic industry, and prior CEO of McKesson Drug Company, a large pharmaceutical wholesaler.
Greg Stahl
Managing Partner, BA Partners
Serial entrepreneur, investor and former CEO, Boca Burger (sold to Kraft in 2000) and Brooklyn Bagel Boys (purchased in 1993 by Maple Leaf Foods).