Niroo P. Kamdar

About Niroo P. Kamdar

VISIONARY ENTREPRENEUR**- 2002 Finalist for the highly prestigious Ernst & Young \"Entrepreneur of the Year\"​ Award - 2013 Finalist for Next Gen Market Research EXPLOR Award for \"Disruptive Innovation\"​ - 2019 Co-Founder of Kitchen Crafted - Food Startup **CEO NETWORKED** Provided Strategic Analytic Guidance At Kraft General Foods To Following Future CEO\'s - Jim Kilts - Nabisco, Kraft Foods and Gillette - Steve Sadove - Clairol - Eileen Serra - JP Morgan Chase - Irene Rosenfeld - Mondelez - Lois Juliber - Colgate-Palmolive - Chris Sinclair - Mattel - Roger Deromedi - Kraft Foods International - John Bello - Founder of SoBe Beverages - Bob Eckert - Oscar Mayer - John Bowlin - Miller Beer - Rick Lenny - Hershey Foods - Rex Mason - Root Candles - Jim Craigie - Church & Dwight In addition, personally retained by the following CEO\'s- John Tait - Penn Mutual Life Insurance - Kathy Dwyer - Revlon - Anil Arora - Yodlee - Chris Policinski - Land O\' Lakes **ACADEMIC INFLUENCER**- Lectured at Yale, Cornell, Vanderbilt and U of Rochester Graduate Business Schools in the areas of Brand Portfolio Optimization + Structured Innovation

Experience

1. CEO Co-founder

   Kitchen Crafted

   Jan 2019 — Present · Orlando, FL, US

   A brief background on our company. At Kitchen Crafted, we\'re passionate about all things food - especially, the deliciously beneficial powers of time-honored herbs and spices. That\'s why we started our company in our very own kitchen!We had worked with some of the largest food companies in the world for over fifty years. But no matter how satisfied or blown away we were by the seemingly infinite combinations of tastes, textures, and colors we experienced, it always felt - but mostly tasted - like something was missing when it came to real, globally-inspired, flavors. The big companies\' attempts at adding truly authentic character to their creations missed the mark because they simply weren\'t listening to the desires of today\'s adventurous flavor seekers. So we made it our mission to follow the feeling in our gut (er, stomach), to craft the most tantalizing creations from the signature blends of herbs and spices that took us a good long while to master.We promise everything from Kitchen Crafted will be pure and genuine, with nothing artificial or fake like EDTA and will we use only NON-GMO sourced ingredients. From our non-irradiated, spice blends (BLNDs), to our NON-GMO Project Verified, certified gluten-free spreads (SPRDs), your taste buds and bodies will enjoy healthful ingredients, high quality products, and unique flavor profiles with the perfect amount of and oh!Launched in 2019, we secured over 2,500 retailer stores, iincluding: Albertsons, Safeway, SPROUTS, H-E-B, United Markets, Harris-Teeter, Meijer, Shaw\'s, Big Y and Giant Eagle. Learn more about our products, vision and mission at:

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Business

  MBA

  1963 — 1966

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  B.S.

  1961 — 1963