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Bijal CG Patel

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Chief Executive Officer at Epicurio Sourcing
📍 Lutz, Florida, United States

Bijal is the founder of Epicurio Sourcing, a firm specializing in ingredient importation for growing brands. With over 17 years in supply chain and procurement, she focuses on strategic sourcing and eliminating supply risk. Colleagues praise her as a reliable, detail-oriented, and strong negotiator.

She has a global perspective, having studied Mandarin at Fudan University and lived in Shanghai for six months. This experience shaped her practical approach to business. She follows consumer health trends and is interested in major consumer goods companies like Unilever and Johnson & Johnson.

Unique fact: Bijal honed her negotiation skills not in a classroom, but by haggling in the fast-paced environment of a Chinese market.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Lutz, Florida, United States
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Priorities

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Strategic Sourcing
Her company, Epicurio Sourcing, focuses on helping brands scale by eliminating supply risk through transparent and sustainable ingredient importation.
Supply Chain Integrity
She highlights that the natural products industry has a "verification problem, " not a contamination problem, stressing the need for better supplier validation.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Chief Executive Officer
Epicurio Sourcing
8-2023 - 1-2025
Senior Director Supply Chain
Royal Food
9-2022 - 8-2023
Director of Purchasing
Royal Food
3-2022 - 9-2022
Consultant
RGP
10-2019 - 9-2021
Category Manager
Rema Foods Inc
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Education
2004 - 2008
Bachelor's Degree
Florida International University - College of Business
2008 - 2008
Mandarin Level A & B
Fudan University
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