About us
Essential industry.Extraordinaryopportunity.
Food and beverage touches every life, every day. We believe there is extraordinary opportunity to make the industry more innovative, productive and resilient — and Frame & Flight exists to help move it forward.
Our purpose
Help the foodindustry moveforward.
Food and beverage is one of the world’s most essential industries. Every day, people across the industry make thousands of decisions that affect the products we consume, the resources we use, the people who make them and the communities they support.
Our purpose is to help make those decisions — and the systems around them — better.
Our mission
Maketransformationwork.
We help food and beverage companies turn technology, knowledge and human capability into measurable progress.
We combine deep industry expertise with intelligence and execution to help organizations understand where they are, make better decisions about where they’re going and move faster toward the outcomes that matter.
Better products. Better operations. Better decisions.
Our impact
Real progress.Lasting impact.
A focused team. A global industry. We’ve helped leading food and beverage companies modernize how they innovate, build and operate — creating meaningful value across the entire food system.
- In investment impacted
- $200M
- Manufacturing sites
- 1,400+
- Of brands
- 1,000s
- Countries & markets
- 190+
From product idea to performance
- Product Development
- Supplier Management
- Quality & Regulatory
- Planning
- Manufacturing
- Performance
Our work spans the food and beverage value chain — helping organizations make better products, build better operations and make better decisions.
Our values
How wedo the workmatters.
Stay curious.
We ask questions before we prescribe answers. Understanding the problem deeply is the beginning of meaningful change.
Do the work.
Strategy matters, but outcomes matter more. We roll up our sleeves, solve difficult problems and stay accountable to the result.
Make complexity useful.
Our industry is complicated. Our job isn’t to make it sound more complicated. It’s to turn complexity into clarity and action.
Build what should exist.
When the right tool, framework or answer doesn’t exist, we create it. That’s how our IP, IRIS and much of Frame & Flight have been built.
Leave things better.
Every project, product and relationship should create something that lasts — stronger capabilities, better decisions and better people equipped for what comes next.
Our story
It started witha simple observation.
Food and beverage companies were investing heavily in technology, but too often the distance between buying technology and creating real value remained enormous.
Frame & Flight began by helping companies close that gap.
Along the way, we realized something bigger: the knowledge required to transform this industry shouldn’t live in individual consultants, disconnected projects or static presentations. It should accumulate.
So we’re building Frame & Flight differently — combining experienced people, proprietary industry knowledge and increasingly intelligent technology to create a company that gets smarter with every problem we solve.
“Expertise shouldn’t disappear when an engagement ends. It should compound.”
Our people
Differentbackgrounds.Shared obsession.
We’re strategists, operators, technologists, engineers and builders brought together by a shared interest in how things work — and how they could work better. What unites us is a deep respect for the people who make, move and improve food, and a belief that this industry deserves better tools, better knowledge and brighter possibilities.
Chris Brandsey
Managing Partner
John Annarelli
Vice President of Sales
Jason Vastine
Senior Consultant, Manufacturing Technology
Brandon Wright
Senior Consultant, Manufacturing
Alejandro Gonzalez
Senior Management Consultant
Monica Gonzalez
Senior Consultant, Innovation and Quality Systems
Filipina Espinosa
Senior Consultant, Change Management
Rahul Kaushal
Strategy and Marketing
Our future
We’re justgetting started.
We’re building Frame & Flight for the long term — a company that develops people, creates knowledge, builds technology and helps move an essential industry forward.
Our ambition isn’t simply to participate in the future of food and beverage.
It’s to help build it.
A moreresilientfood systemahead