President, Nascent Foodservice

Mr. Petrone began his foodservice career in 1983 as owner and General Manager of Capital Food Corp. where he developed ethnic dining concepts for quick-service restaurants, formal dining as well as free-standing restaurants. He entered the food distribution sector, Serv-Safe Certified and in 1999 was recruited by Roma Food Enterprises as General Manager of Western US and Mexico to oversee expansion. In 2001 he was recruited by U.S. giant Sysco Foodservice Corp. to oversee its Specialty Market Division as well as business development for international sales, for which he achieved 22% growth annually.

Additionally, in 2004 he formed International Food Specialists Inc., an import export company representing over 70 manufacturers and up to 500 product lines. His sales market includes USA, Mexico, Canada, The Caribbean, Central and South America. He is a Graduate of The Wharton School of Business; University of Pennsylvania, 1998 and is fluent in English, Italian and Spanish.

CEO, Nascent Foodservice

Sandro is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with 20 years experience in the Food Business. He is the (founder and-out) CEO of Nascent Foodservice, a publicly traded company (NCTW.OB) and the First Nationwide Distributor of imported Food and Beverage in Mexico.

He started his venture into the food industry 20 years ago as the Publisher of a large food industry newspaper. He later founded Tele-Chef Catering from scratch and grew it to be one of the largest catering business in the city of San Diego.

He later joined Roma Exporting, a subsidiary of Roma Foods, as VP of Sales and Marketing for Mexico. Here he polished his foodservice skills before opening his own company, Piancone Group International, Inc., a Foodservice distributor servicing Baja California, Mexico. Sandro knows the food business intimately in the USA, Italy and Mexico.