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NY23 Speakers

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  • Food + Beverage Advisor, F+B Therapy Jake Leonti is a writer and Cafe Guru working in New York City. He has worked in the food + beverage industry for over 20 years. Designing and creating cafes, bran ...
  • Specialty Trader, Sucafina Specialty James McKenny has been trading coffee with Sucafina Specialty since 2019. Prior to trading coffee, James worked on the specialty roasting side of the business in A ...
  • Jasmin McGinnis is the owner of Barista's Daily Grind and Cup of Coa. She's been in the industry since 2003 and works as a consultant helping companies to get on their feet or optimize their current s ...
  • On her 11th birthday, White Horse Coffee founder, Jean Brillman, received the very best present a horse-crazy kid could get...a white pony named Peppermint Patty. That was just the beginning of a life ...
  • VP of Sales, Two Leaves and a Bud Jen is an Iowa girl who has been slinging tea with Two Leaves and a Bud for over 15 years now. When not talking tea you may find her as a cheering sideline soccer mom ...
  • Jen manages the Sales Team at Dillanos Coffee Roasters. She has been in the coffee industry for over 30 years, 19 of those years have been at Dillanos. Over the years she has owned, managed, bought, f ...
  • Owner, Birch Coffee Jeremy co-founded Birch Coffee, a New York City-based coffee company, in 2009. Since then, the company has grown to 14 locations and is doing 10x the revenue it was doing by the en ...
  • Serving Coffee to Others for 20 years Roasting Coffee for Others for 18 years Training Baristas for 18 years Consulting New Coffee Shops for 18 years Consulting New Coffee Roasters for 15 years Managi ...
  • Managing Partner, Mighty Peace Coffee Jim N. Ngokwey lives in New York City and hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He is the Cofounder and Managing Partner of Mighty Peace Coffee, a so ...
  • PerfectCube Mark Calhoun and Jim Starcev are serial entrepreneurs. They have started and sold multiple businesses over the last 16 years, ranging from technology to gelato. Their latest company, Perfe ...
  • Shoreline Supply Company Jordan Brown is a Coffee Professional that specializes in getting premium products to coffee shops and cafes. Jordan has also consulted with hundreds of coffee shops in the ar ...
  • Joey Stazzone is the President (and Chief Coffee Hunter) of Cafe Kreyol. In 2012 Stazzone took his experience with chemistry, cross breeding, and backyard botany, and began working in developing count ...
  • Julia Leach leads Toddy, LLC, a company at the forefront of cold brewing since 1964. Julia’s team helps cafes and roasters around the world to develop cold brew programs that highlight the nuances of ...
  • Julie is the owner of GreenPod Coffee Packing, a revolutionary compostable coffee pod manufacturer specializing in co-packing for other specialty roasters. As small-batch roasters first, Julie and her ...
  • Kenneth R. Olson (he/him) is co-founder and publisher of Barista Magazine the worldwide trade magazine for the professional coffee community. He has written extensively about specialty coffee, travele ...
  • Tache Pistachio is one of the hottest new alternative milk companies in the country. Kyle plays role of co-founder which basically means he does a lot of things. Kyle finds himself working with shop o ...
  • PerfectCube Mark Calhoun and Jim Starcev are serial entrepreneurs. They have started and sold multiple businesses over the last 16 years, ranging from technology to gelato. Their latest company, Perfe ...
  • Culture & Community Ambassador, Dillanos Mike Miller has been in the Coffee industry for over 15 years. He has owned 3 coffee businesses including a coffee shop in the Virgin Islands, a Drive-Thru in ...
  • Mike Ward is a Coffee Trader for Royal NY. Mike has over 10 years’ experience in the coffee industry and has loved every minute of it. His experience covers all aspects of the industry, he has managed ...
  • Paul co-founded Birch Coffee, a New York City-based coffee company, in 2009. Since then, the company has grown to 14 locations and is doing 10x the revenue it was doing by the end of year three. Paul ...
  • Experiences Coordinator, Monin Ryan has been with Monin since 2008, taking a small 5-year break to teach Middle School English. She came back to the coffee world in 2020 and dove right into marketing. ...
  • Ryan Schneider is the Owner Operator of Created Co. Created Co has helped hundred of shops nationwide in the area of custom coffee cups with very clean and distinct style. Ryan has worked in coffee fo ...
  • Suyog leads operations, marketing, and the coffee teams at Driftaway Coffee. With a decade of experience at SapientNitro and a family steeped in entrepreneurship, Suyog advocates sustainability at Dri ...
  • Account Executive, Caffe Umbria Terika Raak has been in the industry for more than 17 years and continues to get excited about learning new things each day.  Over the past few years Terika has enjoyed ...
  • Coffee Education Manager, Sucafina Tim Heinze is the Coffee Education Manager at Sucafina and Director of The Center, an online educational platform. He has a Master of Agriculture from Texas A&M Univ ...