Carlos Barroso

Started my Carreer at P&G where I spend 16 years in roles of increasing responsibility in the company’s paper and coffee divisions in the U.S., Italy, and France, rising to associate director of R&D.

Then moved to PepsiCo to eventually lead the R&D Global Foods from 1996- 2009 and began my own Consulting Company CJB& Associates, after that Campbell Soup wanted to be my only client so, never say never, and I went back to the Corporate World as C-Suite Executive R&D Quality from 2013 to 2018.

Campbell’s acquired Garden Fresh Gourmet and I met Chef George.

So, it’s been quite a ride, CJB resurrected after retiring from Campbell and the fun started, we got major companies including Walmart, Popchips and Starbucks as well as startup companies and everything in between.

Plantasia Foods started as a passion project where we wanted to make a healthy impact where easy to prepare vegan foods was the…

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George Vutetakis

I grew up enjoying the cultural traditions associated with preparing and eating healthy, flavorful Greek Mediterranean cuisine. Developing a passion for heatlhy, plant-based cooking. I´ve been a vegetarian for 50 years and a chef for 45 years, my interest in yoga led me in the direction of vegetarianism.

Owned a vegetarian restaurant for over two decades and began writing and teaching, after a while I ended up as director of research and development for Garden Fresh Gourmet.

“I went from a busy 50-seat restaurant to developing products in the packaged food industry – from feeding thousands to feeding millions.”

Campbell’s soup purchased Garden Fresh in 2015 where I developed vegan products and shared my plan-based food expertise and met Carlos.

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