Meet the Team

Ray Rastelli

Ray Rastelli

Co-Founder

Ray opened his first meat stop in South Jersey in 1976. Today, he maintains the small family business feel and personalized customer service from when he opened shop more than 40 years ago, even as Rastelli has grown globally. As president, Ray takes equal care in leading the financial success of the company, as well as upholding its positive corporate culture and founding values, as it continues to expand in food service, production, distribution, retail, and e-commerce markets.

Tony Rastelli

Tony Rastelli

Co-Founder

Born and raised in Oak Valley, New Jersey, Tony joined the family business in 1980. As the face of Rastelli worldwide, he has a travel schedule that rivals any pilot’s, but he still calls New Jersey home. An expert in global fulfillment and consolidation strategies, Tony spends half of his time traveling to the more than 80 countries that are home to Rastelli clients and customers.

Ray Rastelli III

Ray Rastelli, III

Vice President

Ray began working with the Rastelli Foods Group at the young age of 15. A true participant in the family company, Ray has held every position and has risen through the ranks; gaining industry knowledge, invaluable experience and building solid client relationships.

Todd Perry

Chief Financial Officer

Todd is an executive leader with over 20 years’ experience covering all aspects of the food industry, including C-Level roles in retail, manufacturing, and distribution. Early in his professional career at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) Todd became passionate about the insights consultants deliver and the role finance plays in helping organizations grow and achieve their goals. Transitioning from the consulting space into the family owned, entrepreneurial, middle market business has enabled Todd to deploy a consultative approach to help the organizations he has been part of find opportunities and improve performance.

Todd’s leadership style can be described as collaborative and supportive. He enjoys developing team members and watching them use their own style to achieve success. In middle market businesses, team members need to possess the intellectual curiosity and drive to not only work within their functional area, however, be seen as a resource that can help problem solve in other areas. Helping team member develop their skills and identify those opportunities is what drives Todd and is core to his leadership.

Todd received a BS in Finance from Indiana University and an MBA in Marketing from The Ohio State University.

Luis Villalobos

COO

Luis is a leader with more than 20 years of experience, most recently with West Liberty Foods as Chief Operating Officer. He also climbed through the ranks with Tyson starting as a Production Supervisor and ending his career there as the Managing Group Director of Operations.

When I asked Luis describes his management style as being a servant leader who believes in people with a good process that brings profit to the company.

He is a family man, married 23 years to his beautiful wife Patricia and they are blessed with one son who is 18 and currently attending medical school for a career in neurology. Luis loves family, travel, community and church.

Anthony Rastelli

Anthony Rastelli

Vice President

Anthony learned the family business from the ground up, starting in the warehouse servicing fork lifts and receiving truck deliveries. With a strong foundation of understanding how the company operates, he then learned the ins and outs of shipping, buying, and sales, making him as well-rounded and knowledgable as he is passionate about Rastelli Foods Group.

Lauren Rastelli

Lauren DeMarco

VP Marketing

Lauren is a St. Joseph’s University graduate, with a degree in food marketing. She put that degree to work immediately, and started working with the marketing department during her Junior year in college. Lauren embodies the Rastelli family tradition of quality, leadership, community and service.

Carl H. (Chip) Zerr III, M.S.

Director of FS/QA and Regulatory Affairs

Chip has been protecting leading meat and seafood processing facilities and companies for 20 years as one of the country’s most knowledgeable and respected Food Safety (FS) and Quality Assurance (QA) professionals. Since 2007, he has developed and implemented Rastelli’s SQF Certification System, Organic Certification, Halal Beef Certification, USDA Process Verified Program and more. Today, the USDA recognizes the Rastelli facilities as SQF Level 3, the top in Safe Quality Foods, and Chip’s works has earned several national awards for the company.

Brittany Rastelli

Director of QVC Merchandising

Brittany has been working in the food industry since she was 13. She is a St Joseph’s University graduate. In 2014, Brittany left an Event Coordination job for all 20 of the Philadelphia Steven Starr Restaurants to join the Rastelli Market Fresh Team and develop/manage the catering department. In 2015, she joined the Egg Harbor Seafood brand as a brand manager and spokesperson, becoming the on-air guest host for seafood products. She is a full time working mom of 2 beautiful kids and a proud wife. Brittany loves spending time with family, friends and dining out wherever they serve Egg Harbor’s Faroe Islands Salmon.