Jagatjoti Khalsa, Partner
Jagatjoti Khalsa is Managing Director, Organic + Sustainability. Immediately prior to joining The Meriwether Group, Jagatjoti co-owned Tara Home, a retail chain of furniture which he and his partner sourced and manufactured in India, China, Tibet, Mongolia and Thailand. Jagatjoti operated full manufacturing facilities in both China and India. Jagatjoti developed his career in the natural foods industry at KIIT, the parent company of Yogi Tea, Golden Temple, and Akal Security. Starting as an intern at Yogi Tea and eventually landing on their five-person corporate management team where he assisted the KIIT companies in their growth from $125MM to nearly $ 350MM at the time of his exit.

Jagotjoti helped to move Yogi Tea from the third tea in Natural Foods category to number one, a place it maintains. Additionally, he helped lay the strategy for the long term branding development and marketing campaigns for all the Golden Temple brands which included Golden temple granola, Peace Cereals, Sweet Home amongst others. He helped pioneer Yogi Tea into the first fully organic medicinal tea line by building with their partner company ForesTrade by sourcing ingredients for brands such as Oregon Chai, Smuckers, Frontier Co-Op, Seeds of Change/Masterfoods/Mars, Spice Hunter, General Mills to name a few. He is currently the acting President of Sprout Foods, a baby food concern developed and launched by Tyler Florence.

Jagatjoti resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife Sat Kaur Khalsa and his daughter Pritam. He is the author of Altar Your Space, a guide to the restorative home and the up-coming photography portraiture book, I'm Down with You, which features the beauty and lovingness in the eyes of those with Down’s Syndrome.

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