Yogesh Bellani, the Former CEO and Director of Del Monte Foods India, has joined the food and beverage supply-chain automation and fulfilment platform SupplyNote as an Advisory Board Member. In addition to investing in the brand, in his role at SupplyNote, Bellani will be actively participating in chalking out the growth trajectory for Brand SupplyNote over the next few years.
The brand has already grown over 3.5x by GTV in the last year, and to further pick up the pace, it has decided to strengthen its board leadership team, which will lead and mentor its next stage of growth.
Yogesh comes with over two decades of rich and immersive Leadership experience in the food industry and has a proven track record of starting, building and scaling-up consumer businesses. He has produced two immensely successful companies, Kohinoor Ready to Eat Foods (later acquired by McCormick, US) and Del Monte in India. His years of leadership & entrepreneurial experience, network, and strategic insights would not only add significant value to the team. Still, they would also catalyst the brand’s growth and evolution in the coming years.
At Kohinoor, Yogesh was responsible for setting up the RTE division in 2002 as its founding member and scaling it to become one of the leading players in the RTE category by 2007, working with marquee international food and retail brands across the globe.
In addition to this, Yogesh was the founding member and first employee to start the Del Monte journey in India in January 2008. Under his vision and leadership, Del Monte Foods India has emerged as one of India’s fastest-growing food & beverage brands. Given his journey so far, he has been instrumental in conceptualizing and raising some key brands & businesses in the F&B industry.
“Yogesh brings years of experience and strengths with him that will be pivotal to our growing business. At SupplyNote, his mentoring will be a game-changer for the brand. Onboarding him, we are adding great insights into our business strategy, and it will help us bridge gaps and strengthen our growth trajectory. Now is time to raise the bar, and I see that we can aim for bigger milestones & achievements with multi-fold growth in the coming years,” said Kushang Kumar, Co-founder and CEO, SupplyNote.
“For restaurants, cloud kitchens and other F&B businesses, a lot of costs solely goes into warehousing, inventory management and other infrastructural requirements. SupplyNote has been working relentlessly to reinvent how F&B outlets work in India and has exhibited tremendous growth so far. I am excited and look forward to working with a group of passionate young minds to revolutionize the F&B supply chain with my experience.” said Bellani.
The platform had announced rigorous international expansion. The new leadership team expansion aligns with the strategic growth that the brand is considering. Currently, its solution is deployed across 2500+ outlets, and in the new fiscal, it plans to add over 10,000 outlets.
