Yogesh Bellani joins advisory board of F&B supply-chain automation start-up, SupplyNote

Yogesh Bellani, the Former CEO & Director of Del Monte Foods India has joined 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 one 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.

Bellani 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 built two immensely successful businesses, Kohinoor Ready to Eat Foods (later acquired by McCormick, US) and Del Monte in India. His years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience, network, and strategic insights would not only add great value to the team, but would also act as a catalyst in the brand’s growth and evolution in the coming years.

At Kohinoor, Bellani was responsible for setting up of the RTE division in 2002 as its founding member and for 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, Bellani was the founding member and first employee to start the Del Monte journey in India in January 2008. Under his Vision & Leadership, Del Monte Foods India has emerged as one of the fastest growing food & beverage brands in India. Given his journey so far, he has been instrumental in conceptualising and raising some key brands & businesses in the F&B industry.