Brett Schulman

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at CAVA

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Brett Schulman is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of CAVA: a leading Mediterranean culinary brand with a mission to bring heart, health, and humanity to food. CAVA serves modern, authentic, and vibrant Mediterranean food to a national audience in restaurant and grocery channels through a unique, culinary-driven experience. CAVA has been recognized by QSR Magazine as one of the top 25 best brands to work for and Fast Company Magazine as one of their 50 most innovative companies.

Prior to co-founding CAVA, Brett spent over a decade in the financial world at firms, including Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown and its predecessor, Alex. Brown, before becoming the COO at Snikiddy, a natural and organic food company. At Snikiddy, he helped expand the brand from the conceptual stage to a nationally distributed growth business, which was subsequently acquired by Utz Quality Foods.

Brett has been recognized for his leadership as the Washington Business Journal’s CEO of the Year and the Association for Corporate Growth’s Executive of the Year for a public company. Brett has also been named to Nations Restaurant News Power List, has been recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of their 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and is the recipient of the EnTERPreneur award from the University of Maryland. Brett is a Washington, DC native, a graduate of the University of Maryland, and resides in Bethesda, MD, with his wife Mary and children Sunny, Sadie, and Luke.