Entrepreneur Who Sold Salsa Business for $231M Speaks

FERNDALE, MI – A Ferndale businessman who made a hot $231 million on the sale of his salsa company last summer will kick off Leadership Oakland’s Breakfast of Champions Series Wednesday at the Management Education Center at 811 West Square Lake Road.

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Jack Aronson, who sold Garden Fresh Salsa to Campbell Soup Co., will share some of the tips that led to his success to other food entrepreneurs.

Wednesday’s event is from 7:30-9 a.m., and costs $32 for Leadership Oakland alumni association members and $36 for non-members

Several area young professionals from the Village of Holly, Henry Ford Health System and Humble Design speak on Feb. 24.

The speaker at the April 27 meeting will be U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, whose convictions include former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on public corruption charges, the conviction and life sentence of an Al-Qaeda operative for attempting to blow up an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009, the conviction of a former Michigan Supreme Court Justice on bank fraud charges, the conviction of oncologist Farid Fata, who prescribed medically unnecessary treatments — some to people who weren’t even sick — in a $34 million Medicare fraud case.