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Kristine Tonkonow
Executive Food & Beverage Operations Leader specializing in CPG manufacturing and multi-unit hospitality
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Exited founder who spent 12 years building and operating The Konery, scaling it from a parents’ kitchen into a nationally distributed CPG manufacturing business in Brooklyn and selling it in 2025. Deep hands-on operator with end-to-end CEO experience, including doubling capacity through machinery implementation and running SQF certification for five years with two perfect audits.
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- Scaled a gourmet waffle cone business from a home kitchen to nationally distributed CPG manufacturing
- CEO-level ownership across operations, finance, staffing, sales, systems, and regulatory compliance
- Implemented new machinery that doubled production capacity
- Led SQF certification program for 5 years with two perfect audit scores
- Successfully exited via sale of the business (2025)
- Structured go-to-market approach: customer definition, channel selection, pilot validation, margin/pricing, pipeline build, marketing
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