Fresh Origins
Carlos Pancardo, CPA, currently serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Fresh Origins since September 2018. With extensive experience in financial leadership, Carlos held positions including Chief Financial Officer and VP at Duncan Family Farms, LLC from April 2014 to September 2018, and Senior Controller at Reiter Affiliated Companies from 2012 to 2014. Previous roles also include Chief Financial Officer at both Pacific Ridge Farms and Freshtex, as well as Regional Controller at Pacific Tomato Growers. Carlos founded and managed TEPOZNIEVES, a master franchise, successfully expanding the business from one to seven stores during tenure. Educational credentials include a Master in Finance and a Public Accountant degree, both from Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Fresh Origins
Fresh Origins is a family farm in San Diego that produces the very best in MicroGreens, Petite®Greens, Edible Flowers, Tiny Veggies™, and Herb, Flower & Fruit Crystals. Southern California’s year-round mild sunny weather is the perfect environment to produce strong, highly flavored, and long-lasting MicroGreens. Daily planting throughout the year ensures consistent availability and fresh harvest and Fresh Origins has many unique items not available anywhere else, with new items introduced regularly. Fresh Origins Herb Crystals®, Fruit Crystals™ and Flower Crystals® are a great new way add color and texture to any dish and they are naturally colored, intensely flavored, and shelf stable. Flavors include basil, fennel, hibiscus, cilantro, rose, mint, and cranberry and they create a dazzling, crunchy finishing touch for desserts, salads, savory dishes and cocktails. There is nothing on the market like this! If you are interested in adding products from Fresh Origins to your restaurant’s menu, kindly contact your produce distributor. If you are a produce distributor interested in offering superior quality MicroGreens, Petite®Greens, Edible Flowers and our other specialty items to your customers, please contact us for more information.