Pete Maldonado

Pete Maldonado is the co-founder and co-CEO of Chomps, a Florida-based company that produces grass-fed beef and meat snack sticks without added sugar or artificial preservatives. He co-founded the company in 2012 with Rashid Ali, whom he met at a poker game in Chicago, after identifying a gap in the market for clean, high-protein, on-the-go snacks during his career as a personal trainer. He leads sales and marketing from the company's Naples, Florida headquarters and is known for building Chomps into a widely distributed natural meat snack brand through direct-to-consumer growth and retail expansion.