OVIDIU SILAGHI

Ovidiu Silaghi - elite romano-americano marketing

Ovidiu Silaghi (Sile as friends called him) was born in Constanta, Romania on August 15th 1970. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1977 in Miami, Florida. Ovidiu Silaghi attended Yale University where he graduated in 1987. After graduation, he worked as a management consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co. for seven years, where he developed business strategies for large width of companies, including major companies in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States of America. Ovidiu Silaghi received his Master degree in Management at Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1993. Subsequently, he spent four years as a marketing manager with Kraft Foods, where he gained experience in the food consumption and majoring in marketing field, gaining enviable image in the field. In 1997, Sile (Ovidiu Silaghi) Rick Bayless was hired to help at creation of Frontera Foods Inc., makers of Mexican foods. Today, Frontera Foods has more than sixty products, including fire-roasted salsa, Mexican-inspired premium pizza, stone-ground tortilla chips, enchilada sauces and barbecue sauces. Frontera also creates, private label products for retailers distinguished. By 2011 he rounded his career as CEO Consultant at Frontera Foods, Frontera Media Productions, Frontera Fresco (quick service restaurant in Chicago, specializing in Mexican street price) Red Fork and natural foods (makers of American gourmet products ). In 2006, Ovidiu Silaghi was appointed by Brandweek magazine as a leading entrepreneur in the specialty food business. Also Forbes magazine mentions him in an article published in 2007 about Rick Bayless. Frontera Foods has won many awards, including prizes for the NASFT for outstanding products, finalist for outstanding product line and best seller Award for Outstanding Frontera Chipotle Salsa. In August 2011 Ovidiu Silaghi, a heavy smoker, died from a stroke in Chicago. It was regretted by family but also by the marketing domain, many remembering him as an "actor of change". He was buried in Wilmette, Illinois where he lived with his wife, Clarence, and their two daughters, Silvia and Morena.