Robert Sharpe

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. manufactures and markets cigarettes and tobacco products. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. manufactures, sells and distributes Pepsi-Cola beverages. The beverages sold by it include Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, Lipton Brisk, Sierra Mist, Diet Mountain Dew, Tropicana Juice Drinks, SoBe and Starbucks Frappuccino. It also sells beverages, including 7 up, Kas, Aqua Minerale, Mirinda and Manzanita sol outside the US. The company also has the right to manufacture, sell and distribute soft drink products of companies other than PepsiCo., including Dr pepper and Squirt under the trademarks that it owns, including Electropura, Epura and Garci Crespo. It operates in the United States, Canada, Greece, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Turkey. The company was incorporated in Delaware in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Somers, NY.

PepsiAmericas, Inc. makes sells and delivers a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in U.S. locations as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. PepsiCo, Inc. holds a 57 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Swedish Match AB engages in the manufacture and trade of lighters and tobacco products. It operates through the following segments: Snus and Moist Snuff; Other Tobacco Products; Lights; and Other Operations. The Snus and Moist Snuff segment produces and markets smokeless cigarettes. The Other Tobacco Products segment manufactures and sells chewing tobacco and cigars. The Lights segment develops and trades matches, lighters, razors, batteries, light bulbs, and toothpicks. The Other Operations segment consists of corporate and Swedish distribution functions.The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

New Frontier Foods, Inc. engages in the manufacture snack food products. It develops, produces, and markets baked seaweed chips in several flavors. The company was founded by Robert James Mock, Michael Buckley, Michael Shim, and Shin Rhee in 2011 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

StarVest Management Inc (Starvest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Farrington Anne Deborah, Laura Belle Sachar and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in New York.