Our Team

Aram Karapetian

Chief Vision Officer

Curious Spoon’s fearless leader. As CEO of Woodland Foods (our parent company), Aram keeps Curious Spoon’s vision in focus. He comes from a background in hospitality and culinary arts and always has a pulse on the best places to eat, the best recipes to cook, and what new flavors we should all be discovering. He’s beyond passionate about food & unique ingredients and makes sure the Curious Spoon team never forgets that food is more than sustenance – it’s connections with people, it’s a conduit to good conversation, it’s delicious!

Bridget Babcock

Brand & Marketing Manager

If it has to do with Curious Spoon, Bridget is involved. As the brand architect, she works hard to ensure that Curious Spoon is fun and flavorful in all ways. With a mission to transform the foreign into the familiar – she’s invigorated by the challenge to bring the flavors she has come to love while traveling across the world to the home kitchens of the US. Whether it is working with the culinary team to launch new flavors, guiding the design team to bring color to our labels, or wrangling our sales team – Bridget is here to help bring the flavors of the world
home.

Jeff Troiola

Master Chef

Curious Spoon’s master chef! Trained at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Jeff has been recognized as one of the most talented of the new American chefs. He has managed kitchens in some of the country’s most innovative restaurants and prestigious hotels and has worked alongside chefs like Wolfgang Puck, Larry Forgione, and Mark Miller. Chef Jeff is the culinary mind behind the Curious Spoon products. With knowledge beyond imagination of each & every one of the ingredients that goes into Curious Spoon’s products, Chef Jeff strives to bring the most authentic yet innovative products to the Curious Spoon brand.

Jason Alm

Research & Development Chef

From Chile-Lime Adobo Skewers to perfectly seasoned made-at-home truffle fries, Jason works hard to make the flavors of the world approachable and accessible to all. He’s constantly working to adjust products until they are just right for the home cook and tailoring recipes to teach people how to make global cuisine at home. In his role, as research and development chef, Jason has unique insight into the full supply chain of our catalogue of ingredients and the ways each department comes together to get products from concept to kitchen.

Rebecca Falkinham

Project Manager

Curious Spoon’s project manager extraordinaire! Rebecca is everywhere – from checking in with purchasing to track down where in the world our ingredients are (because we’re direct source, not co-packed) or working with our quality team to ensure each and every one of our products meets the highest standards – Rebecca knows what’s going on. There’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work that goes on before a spice jar is packed and head to store shelves, and Rebecca is responsible for keeping track of our products every step of the way!

Linda Yousik

Packaging Solutions

People like to focus on the products inside, but the outside package is equally important! Linda has been sourcing our packaging for 15 years and has the extraordinary ability to coordinate getting the right label, on the right jar, in the right box, at the right time – all while keeping our costs low and sustainability in mind.

Erik Ortberg

Chief Graphic Designer

Bright colors, fun graphics, & mouthwatering photography – that’s what Erik is all about. We all know that eating is an experience that goes beyond taste, the visual elements are important too! At Curious Spoon we believe that food is fun, exciting, & beautiful – Erik is responsible fore making that vision come to life. Whether through graphic design, making eye-catching and fun labels or photography, capturing mouthwatering images of our favorite recipes, Erik brings color and life to the Curious Spoon look.

Randy White

Sales Manager, Retail Specialty

Known in the office as the Chattanooga Charmer, Randy southern drawl accompanies a true gem of a human being and an
excellent sales manager driven to help bring our customers Curious Spoon. With 30 years in the food industry and plenty of life experiences from his time living in Spain and his years serving our country in the Navy – Randy truly understands why bringing the flavors of the world home is important.

Chris Snyder

Sales Manager, Club Specialty

Chris’s love of food really comes out in the summer grilling months. Not only will he sell you the best new Curious Spoon product, he’ll teach you how to use it to bring your backyard barbecue game to the next level! He’s been working in the retail world for years and is king of club stores. If you love our products as much as we do, he responsible for getting it to you in bulk size!