Odd: Caulipower CEO Marc Seguin Is Stepping Down

Marc Seguin is stepping down as CEO after two years with the Los Angeles-essentially based gluten-free frozen meals impress. Tyler Ricks, who became once formerly a Caulipower board member and the CEO of Massive Espresso, an Austin-essentially based refrigerated coffee company, will step into the role of Caulipower CEO subsequent week.

Easiest acknowledged for its cauliflower pizza crust that revolutionized frozen meals aisles in 2017, Caulipower has since change into judicious one of many main names for gluten-free foods, garnering extra than $120 million in retail sales as of March 24, 2024. Its pizzas, chickpea rooster tenders, and veggie-essentially based frozen meals are sold in over 26,000 shops nationwide; the corporate has elevated its retail footprint by 2,000 shops since 2022.

Seguin, who joined Caulipower from the kombucha impress​ GT’s Residing Meals, led the corporate within the course of a transitional duration, which founder Gail Becker explains became once well-known to scale the logo from a “traditional founder-led organization” to what it is on the present time. Becker added that she is appreciative of Seguin’s contributions within the course of that transition; now, she says the logo is positioned to plug teach and sales all the intention in which by all channels.

Becker believes that Ricks will force that teach. He’s beforehand held C-suite titles at four corporations, at the side of the diminutive one meals impress Plum Organics, café chain Peet’s Espresso, and Einstein Noah Restaurant Community, the corporate that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels. He has also served in 15 board director seats at other CPG brands at some level of his profession, at the side of the supplement impress Kos Naturals, the sweet company Joyride, and the probiotic meals and beverage impress Farmhouse Tradition. Early in his profession, he spent 9 years at PepsiCo, the place he labored his manner as much as vp of sales.

That fashioned CPG abilities made Ricks the honest chance to lead Caulipower ahead, Becker says. “Or no longer it’s extra or much less unheard of to fetch those that have faith labored on no longer factual a different of brands, but top brands–top CPG brands, top client brands. And that is the rationale what I need for Caulipower,” she tells Inc. It helped, she jokes, that she knew that Ricks became once an avid fan of the logo–evidenced by his adore of Caulipower’s rooster tenders.

Ricks has also served on the boards of Caulipower’s three funding companions, Boulder Food Community, Tenth Avenue, and Continental Grain, which “made the hiring route of a diminutive bit simpler because there became once already a level of belief and admire all the intention in which by all the major constituents,” he says. As an investor himself, he adds, he is aware of work together very perfect with these companions. To this point, Caulipower has raised over $10 million, essentially based on PitchBook.

Even despite the incontrovertible truth that Ricks already has two years of abilities as a Caulipower board member, he plans to originate up his time within the C-suite on a contemporary online page. “Or no longer it’s my job as CEO to advance in and work with the team to manufacture that agenda,” by attending to clutch employees, their competencies, and how very perfect to work together, he says.

That aim for accelerated teach follows a as much as date impress growth. At the pinnacle of 2023, Caulipower launched 9 contemporary merchandise, at the side of baked pizza bites with a “low burst price” and excessive filling-to-dough ratio, says Becker.

Ricks adds that his aim as incoming CEOis to hit double-digit teach. Stepping into the role “is de facto about stunning-tuning” and optimizing the energy of the teams to bellow the logo to its subsequent level, Ricks says: “Working out how we’re the usage of the intersection of sales, marketing, and innovation to force teach; to me, that’s the magic of all these teach brands.”