Executive Team
Mr. Price is the CEO of Papa Bello Enterprises, Inc. Mr. Price has over 20 years of experience in numerous facets of the food service and financial services industry, wherein he has developed an expertise in finding small, underfunded companies and building them through investment banking and financial public relations. Mr. Price himself is perhaps best described as a true entrepreneur.
After attending college at Eastern Washington University, Mr. Price served 3 years in the U.S. Army. Upon his honorable discharge he moved to Maryland and began his career as a successful stock broker. Over a 10 year span as a broker and office Principal, he worked at JW Gant, Cohig and Associates, AG Edwards and Sons and Global Financial. In 1992, Mr. Price founded Aero Financial, to provide investment capital as well as essential support and organizational services to private and public companies. Licenses held: Series 7, 24, 63, Life and Health. Mr. Price sits on the Board of Directors for the YMCA and is the Chairman of the Board for The I AM Foundation.
Mr. Pastore has built a very successful career in sales and restaurant management. Along with his family, Mr. Pastore has developed and operated Italian style restaurants in the Baltimore area for decades and currently runs Papa Bello’s Pastore brand as well as many of the day to day operations of Papa Bello.
Mr. Pastore has extensive experience building catering and delivery operations for his business and has a tenacity for food quality and customer service. He has brought his considerable experience to Papa Bello to help streamline operations and develop additional revenue channels, increasing each location’s ability to generate consistent, long term revenue along with high levels of satisfaction with its customers.
Prior to founding Pastores of Rosedale in 1999, Mr. Pastore held several sales positions including District Sales Manager for Vandenbergh Foods, an international food products corporation, where he handled bakery product and ingredient sales for 5 east coast states.
The Kambo brothers developed these new innovative brands after reading the statistics on obesity in America and unsatisfied with the quality of food in the fast food restaurants. They wanted to bring fresh, healthy cuisine at a reasonable price to the American public. They wanted everyone to taste their home cooking made with natural spices that taste delicious, has great health benefits and is reasonabally priced. They have always used family recipes to make the food unique and make their restaurants a success.
They have many years of experience in the food industry and the restaurant business which qualifies them to be great leaders for Kebab Cafe, Inc. and Royal India Express, Inc. They continue to be co-owners of Royal India Restaurant in San Diego, California and with the power of two, they have created multi award winning restaurants that are part of Royal India Group.