We do noodles right.
Our Products
CHEF WOO
RAMEN EXPRESS
World-Class Production Facility
We live the philosophy of constant, continual improvement.
Vegetarian
Kosher
Our executives are all experienced leaders with shared values and complementary skillsets whose intellectual capital underpins our success as a company.
Our management team delivers a combination of financial intelligence, operational proficiency and cultural understanding.
Barthelemy Helg
Chairman of Board of Directors
• Former VP, Global Head of M&A Nestle
• Former Managing Partner Lombard Odier &
Co, Geneva
• Former FIG Banker, Goldman Sachs & Co.
• Attorney at law Geneva & New York
• MBA Harvard, LL.M. NYU, M.L. Univ. of
Geneva
Reza Soltanzadeh
CEO & President
• 22 yrs Private Equity experience in Food
Processing and Production industry
• Led $1.3B in turnarounds and
consolidations internationally
• Former M&A Banker, Lehman Brothers
• MD Manipal Univ., MBA Anderson/UCLA
Paul West
COO & Executive Vice President
• Former VP Parmalat Canada
• Former Plant Manager, Unilever Canada
• Former Plant Manager, Griffith Foods
• B.A.Sc. Mech. Eng. Univ. Waterloo
Matt Talle
Chief Strategy Officer
• Former Board Member, Nissin Foods USA
• Former VP of Sales & Marketing at Nissin
Foods USA (29 Yrs)
• BA Economics, Agri Bus. Cal Poly
Univ.
Nandu Nandkishore
Advisory Board
• Former Executive Vice-President,
Asia, Oceania, Africa Nestle
• Former Global CEO for Nestle
Nutrition
• Over 33 years of global
experience in FMCG
• Professor at London Business
School
Pouneh Rahimi
Director & Chief Legal Counsel
• 25+ years experience as Legal Counsel
• Former Nixon Peabody Associate
• Former Ass. Gen. Counsel at MRO Software
(Nasdaq: MROI)
John Fox
Director, Public Relations & Government Affairs
Soodeh Shockravi,Ph.D
Director, Nutritional Science
• 17 yrs experience as Clinical Nutritionist
• 10 yrs research on Nutritional
Bioavailability
• Fellow research scientist Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden
• Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences
Rakshit Mehta
Finance Manager
• Former Senior – KPMG India, Deal Advisory
• Former Consultant – EY India, Regulatory
Services
• MBA, University of Edinburgh Business
School
• Chartered Accountant, ICAI
Susie Shi
Finance Project Manager
Over 10 years of experience in private equity, corporate development and leverage financing
Former director of M&A Financing and Global Syndications, ICBC
Contact Us
Palmetto Gourmet Foods
782 Columbia Highway, Saluda,
SC 29138, United States