Tomas Malave

Title: President & Chief Executive Officer

As the Founder of Elite Venture brands he is recognized for his leadership as a CPG sales executive with results-driven success, achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within start-ups and rapid-change environments. Extensive experience with worldwide packaged good sales companies which require a critical understanding of specific key business drivers in multiple markets and industries, developing effective strategy planning with supportive tactics and measures, created successful business relationships with C-level decision makers, executed brand objectives which exceeded goals, and fulfilled client commitments.

He contributes his entrepreneurial passion and leadership learnings from working with top CPG companies where he began his career with Pepsico, then moving to Nabisco, Colgate Palmolive, MillerCoors. He also gained significant start up experience by working alongside many start up Founders (Former CEO’s) to assist with all aspects of growing their brands in the market. He then had the privilege of working with several marketing agencies where he understood the importance of branding.

He finally entered the Natural Organic industry with Hain Celestial where he gained value added knowledge of managing several top lines with national & regional retailers that sold in over 12 different categories. This gave him the final understanding about this industry and realized the opportunity to assist entrepreneurs reach their goals was what he aspired to do since college.

He is a graduate of Lincoln University with a double major in Industrial Psychology and Spanish.