Srishti Handa

Vice President Marketing - Brand & Growth at Dave's Hot Chicken

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Srishti Handa is the Vice President Marketing for Brand & Growth at Dave’s Hot Chicken, where she leads brand, social, and earned media strategy. For nearly five years, she’s helped shape the voice, identity, and growth of one of the fastest-growing restaurant brands in the country—driving national campaigns, menu innovation, and global expansion along the way.

Before joining Dave’s, she led marketing for a female-founded produce company, managing retail partnerships with Whole Foods, Kroger, and Bristol Farms. Her career spans food, retail, and consumer brands, including heading up marketing for a lifestyle company acquired by India’s largest retailer and overseeing brand strategy for a plant-based frozen food company across Southeast Asia.

That journey eventually led her to launch her own frozen food brand, The Temperamental Chef, sold in premium Indian grocery stores and rooted in her belief that vegetables deserve better PR. Her work has earned her recognition from Forbes 30 Under 30 and, more recently, AdAge 40 Under 40.