Paul Nardone

Paul Nardone is a five-time CEO of emerging food and beverage brands such as Annie’s Homegrown, Stirrings Cocktail Mixers, Immaculate Baking, PopCorners better-for-you snacks and today, Hippeas Organic Chickpea Snacks. Combining an entrepreneurial management style with a classical MBA foundation, Paul has earned a reputation as a proven CPG leader and dynamic executive with demonstrated success in creating and executing high‐growth strategies, consistently achieving superior operating results, and repeatedly delivering significant value-creation for stakeholders through strategic M&A realizations to industry leaders such as General Mills, Diageo and PepsiCo. Paul currently serves on the Board of Directors for Notch Brewing, Rustic Crust/American Flatbread, and The Governors Academy. Paul earned a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.