Experts
Meet the Experts who guide you through the Conserve checklist best practices and educational videos.
Richard Young
Senior Engineer / Director of Education
Food Service Technology Center
Richard is the senior engineer and director of education at the Food Service Technology Center (FSTC), a publicly funded research facility that studies and promotes energy and water efficiency in commercial food service.
Don Fisher
President/CEO, Fisher-Nickel, inc.
Engineering Manager
Food Service Technology Center
12949 Alcosta Blvd. Suite 101
San Ramon, CA 94583
Ph. 925.866.5770 Fax 925.866.2864
Don Fisher, President/CEO of Fisher-Nickel, inc., manages the Food Service Technology Center in San Ramon, CA. This Center develops and applies standard test methods for evaluating the performance of food service equipment.
Christopher Koetke, CEC CCE
Dean, The School of Culinary Arts
Kendall College
Christopher Koetke, CEC CCE has presided as Dean of Kendall’s School of Culinary Arts since 2005. One of his first leadership acts was to lead the school onto the path toward ecological sustainability. Today, sustainability is woven throughout the curriculum and the school’s operational practices. In 2007, Kendall was the recipient of the Green Award presented by Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI), the first every presented to a culinary-training program.
Gale Gand
Executive pastry chef and partner
TRU (Chicago, IL)
Gale Gand, executive pastry chef and partner of the Five Diamond, four star restaurant TRU in Chicago, was named pastry chef of the year by The James Beard Foundation and Bon Appetit magazine in 2001. Host of the Food Network’s “Sweet Dreams,” Gand has appeared on “Iron Chef America”, “Martha Stewart”, Baking With Julia (Child)”, and judged Bravo’s “Top Chef.” Gand has a BFA from RIT and attended culinary school at La Varenne in Paris and is an accomplished cookbook author with seven titles to her credit, including her most recent “Gale Gand’s Brunch”, released in 2009.
Tom Griffin
Director/Co-Founder
Greener Results
Richmond, Virginia
Ph. 804-986-9119
Tom Griffin is the Director and Co-Founder of Greener Results, a sustainability consulting group that is part of Air Cycle Corporation, headquartered in Broadview, IL. Greener Results performs a wide-array of sustainability consulting services, but Tom specializes in the development and management of voluntary environmental programs for the hospitality and tourism industry.
