Mark Ramadan
CEO & Co-Founder, Sir Kensington's
Along with his co-founder Scott Norton, Mark Ramadan launched one of the most successful start-ups of the decade. Sir Kensington’s is a food innovation company whose mission is to bring integrity and charm to ordinary and overlooked food. In just eight years, Ramadan has taken Sir Kensington’s and turned it into a major rival of one of the world’s most recognizable brands. In Bloomberg’s words, “Sir Kensington’s has changed the makeup of your kitchen cabinet.”
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Mark Ramadan is the CEO of Hu Kitchen & Products. Hu (pronounced “hue” as in Human) is one of the fastest-growing chocolate and snacking companies in the U.S. Hu’s mission is to help us all “Get Back to Human”, with a fanatical focus on combining delicious taste with strictly-vetted, simple, understandable ingredients. Hu’s flagship Chocolate is vegan, paleo, free of sugar alcohols, refined sugar-free and has won various medals over multiple years for Best Vegan Chocolate. Hu Kitchen is a high-end, fast-casual restaurant and market in NYC, serving over 1,000 people per day, focused strictly on delicious, unprocessed foods.
Prior to Hu, Mark was the Co-Founder and CEO of Sir Kensington’s, creators of non-GMO, globally-inspired condiments. While attending Brown University, Ramadan and his classmate, Scott Norton, were inspired by an article penned by Malcolm Gladwell, titled “The Ketchup Conundrum,” which suggested that it was impossible for new ketchup brands to compete with the nostalgic incumbent, Heinz. From there, Ramadan and Norton set out to change the broader condiment category by not only focusing on taste, but by building a brand that celebrated both food education and food entertainment.
After two years of testing recipes and creating Sir Kensington’s story, the company launched in June 2010. In the following years, Sir Kensington’s launched award-winning lines of mayonnaise, mustard, and vegan mayo named Fabanaise, the first commercial product made from aquafaba. The products can be found in thousands of retailers, including Whole Foods and Kroger, and hospitality establishments, including Bareburger, The Spotted Pig, and The Ritz-Carlton, nationwide. In April 2017, Sir Kensington’s was acquired by Unilever.
Prior to Sir Kensington’s, Ramadan worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York City, specializing in the consumer goods and travel industries. He graduated in 2008 from Brown with a BA in Economics and International Relations.
Ramadan has been featured on Fast Company’s “1000 Most Creative People in Business” and Forbes’ “30 under 30” list.
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