OUR TEAM
CEO & Development Director / Executive Servant
Bakhtiari’s work within the energy sector, and his desire for a humane and truly sustainable food system, makes him a unique voice. While partnered with Shell Oil, he curated and launched Hangry Planet in 2022, the nation’s only health driven, plant-based and earth conscious C-store. But when he realized the impact we were having on children’s futures, which was something painfully concrete for him as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for court dependent children, he wanted to take it to another level. His businesses are exploring cutting-edge unfair competition cases against a variety of unsustainable and irresponsible companies and industries, putting his business acumen towards the move sustainability needs: Truly green companies taking the market share they deserve, and pushing out the dinosaurs whose practices endanger us all. That means going beyond halting greenwashing, and challenging as illegal and anticompetitive the practices themselves.
Bakhtiari is also a tv and stage actor with Critics Circle nominations for his regional theater work, and on the Board of Directors for Jefferson award recipient Moms Against Poverty.
VP & Facility Manager
Originally from Nicaragua, this Petroleum Kingpin has over 30 years of management experience under his belt.
With over a decade of night-owl cashiering, always offering eclectic musical beats to the insomniac masses, and in a joyous fervor, Joss has had over 15 years of hospitality experience.
Appointed Deputy Commander of Operation Nourish in 2021, Joss helped implement the vision of a fully plant-based store, championing the new Feel Beautiful and Not Junky paradigm for C-stores. He is the core front-line trailbrazer of a new era of health, animal welfare, and planet vitality in an otherwise compulsive junk-food C-store milieu. Since 2023, Joss leads the sustainability goals of Hangry and leverages partnerships.
Sustainability Manager and Strategic Partnerships
VIP Meows. George & Pishi
They have inherent divine programming . Love them and ye will learn the prolific ways of divine grace, of gratitude, and of compassion, the only true everlasting currency.
Animals are our Guides.