Atul Sood
Director

Atul has spent over a decade in the restaurant / Food & Beverage industries in a variety of roles spanning both the Fortune 500 and the startup universe and is currently an advisor to a number of companies in the space.
 

Most recently, as the first employee and Chief Business Officer of Kitchen United, he was responsible for raising over $100 million (from investors including Google Ventures, Fidelity, Simon Property Group, RBI, and others), managing brand
relationships (with brands such as Chik-Fil-A, Sweetgreen, Portillo’s, and more) and striking a comprehensive relationship with Kroger to install ghost kitchens in Kroger grocery stores. For Kitchen United, he also led PR initiatives as well as numerous other key parts of the business.

Prior, Atul was Director of Global Business Development for McDonald’s Digital, a business unit formed to help spur technological innovation across the restaurant. In this capacity, Atul forged partnerships across the technology ecosystem – ranging from payment platforms to voice activated ordering to food delivery initiatives – to help McDonald’s build the ‘restaurant of the future.’

Atul spent much of his life internationally and has lived in 8 countries including Japan, the UK, and Saudi Arabia. Atul graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.