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Ulukaya turned a $700,000 abandoned Kraft plant into America's #1 Greek yogurt brand worth $12 billion, then gave employees a 10% equity stake — while building a global coalition to hire refugees through the Tent Partnership.
Hamdi Ulukaya is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Chobani, which he built from a shuttered Kraft yogurt plant he purchased for $700,000 in 2005.
Within five years Chobani was the best-selling Greek yogurt in the United States, and the company is now valued at over $12 billion. Ulukaya gave employees a 10 percent equity stake in 2016, founded the Tent Partnership for Refugees, and signed the Giving Pledge in 2015.
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