Frozen-Fresh Category Leader Cappello's Appoints Rajesh Babu As President
The Simple, Real Food Ingredient Champion Has Filled Key Leadership Roles
In An Effort To Take The Brand To New Levels Of Success.
- Boulder, CO (1888PressRelease) December 07, 2021 - Cappello's, the makers of frozen-fresh, simple, real ingredient foods, names natural foods alum, Rajesh (Raj) Babu, as President. Babu will lead the company's passionate crew of tenured food trailblazers into new areas of innovation, accelerated distribution, and compelling brand growth for years to come.
This decision comes after a year of extraordinary growth for Cappello’s, where the company was named the #1 frozen pasta brand in the natural channel and the fastest-growing grain-free frozen pizza in MULO by SPINS. Additionally, in this year alone the brand has increased its total points of distribution by 67% with the latest retail availability in Whole Foods Market, Sprouts, Kroger, Big Y, Raley’s, and more.
Babu began his journey working in strategic leadership roles with natural food and healthy living brands at WhiteWave Foods. There, he helped to build the company’s corporate strategy, acquire businesses and integrate businesses post-acquisition, including WhiteWave’s own acquisition by Danone in 2016. Babu then served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Birch Benders, the #1 natural pancake & waffle mix brand and one of the fastest-growing brands in the United States. During his time with Birch Benders, he focused on scaling the business to four product lines and distribution to over 10,000 stores including Walmart, Kroger, and other key retailers, as well as led the company’s acquisition with Sovos Brands.
In addition to bringing on Babu, Cappello’s welcomed another key leadership role earlier this year, VP of R&D and Commercialization, Ken Jenner. Formerly VP of Innovation at Boulder Brands, Jenner brings his 25+ years of experience in technical food science combined with culinary acumen to create innovative and disruptive offerings for retail consumer packaged goods. Jenner’s unique role at Cappello’s integrates the world of culinary arts with the complexities of food manufacturing at scale to help the company achieve commercialization without compromising on flavor, taste, and texture. Cappello’s values the quality of its offerings and its thoughtfully designed, clean ingredient innovation above all else, making the addition of Jenner a strategic and vital move for the brand.
“We couldn’t be more excited to bring these talented, creative, intelligent, natural food brand alums onto our Crew,” said Ben Frohlichstein, CEO of Cappello’s. “With our sights set on new distribution and innovation, these two roles are an essential move we’ve taken to continue to pursue our mission to set a new standard in the frozen aisle.”
“Cappello’s is in a period of remarkable growth, and I’m honored to join this exceptional team that creates delicious and thoughtful products made with all consumers in mind,” Babu said. “The frozen industry has exploded over the last few years, and I’m looking forward to helping build up Cappello’s and allow for even more people to experience this incredible brand.”
To learn more about Cappello’s and to keep up with brand news, please visit www.cappellos.com or check out the frozen food innovator’s Instagram page at Instagram.com/Cappellos.
About Cappello’s
Friends and Co-founders Ben Frohlichstein and Stacey Marcellus had always shared a love for cooking and feeding people. After Ben and Stacey had parallel experiences working on farmlands, they were inspired to bring a new kind of food into the world that was filled with nutritionally relevant ingredients, and tastes and textures that rivaled the classics. And thus, the world’s first almond flour pizzas, pastas and cookie doughs were born. Today, Ben and Stacey lead a team of spirited food lovers, guiding Cappello’s on its mission to set a new standard for frozen foods that shift the prepackaged paradigm in a sustainable direction focused on simple, real foods. For more information, please visit www.cappellos.com and Instagram.com/Cappellos.
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