Rick Harris

Rick is an Operating Partner at Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC, focusing on growing the firm’s food and beverage portfolio.
He also serves as President and CEO of Chung’s Gourmet Foods, the nation’s leading branded, frozen Asian Appetizer company, headquartered in Houston, Texas.
An executive to both large multinationals and start-ups, Rick’s broad experience cuts across diverse areas of finance, operations and supply chain, product development, sales and marketing, and information technology.
Rick began his career on Wall Street with Chemical Bank’s World Banking Group (JP Morgan), working in corporate finance specifically on food and agribusiness companies.
Prior to Chung’s, Rick served as President of BBX Sweet Holdings (BBX Capital) in Florida, a portfolio of confectionery companies with plants located in Florida, Utah, and California.
Rick was recruited by the Private Equity firm Dolphin Capital in 2010 to run Maxfield Candy, a leading chocolate manufacturing and marketing company in Utah.Before Maxfield, he served as President of Sunkist-Taylor LLC, a pioneering fresh-cut fruit snacking joint venture with both east and west coast processing plants.
He also served internationally in several leadership roles in operations and supply chain with Dole Foods (principally in Latin America and California), and helped lead start-ups in B2B e-commerce at Global Food Exchange in Atlanta and organic products at Food Logic in Boston.
He is fluent in Spanish.