Ari Powell

Industry Expert

Professional Bio:

Ari is a lawyer turned entrepreneur with over 25 years of owner/operator leadership experience within the food industry. His breadth of expertise includes business strategy, culture development and deployment, entrepreneurship, product sales and marketing across multiple channels, manufacturing operations, process optimization, and more. Ari most recently served as CEO of Giraffe Foods, a previous Graham Partners portfolio company, for 25 years, after founding the company in 1997.

Ari earned his B.A. in Psychology from McGill University and his L.L.B./J.D. from University of Toronto.