Kurt Stiles -America's Healthy Chef
Chef Kurt Stiles
Americas Healthy Chef
BIOGRAPHY:
Chef Kurt Stiles is the CEO and owner of Intelligent Ingredients, a natural/functional food, beverage, product development and marketing company based in St. Paul, MN. Chef Stiles has 29 years experience in the food and beverage industry, including chain and independent restaurants, stadium, business and industrial foodservice, hotels and his two of his own “Moosehopper” New England Coffee Café’s. Chef Stiles has also worked with dozens of small-to-medium volume ($5M-$100M in sales) food and beverage manufacturers, in addition to major retail brands such as; General Mills, Kellogg’s (Kashi & Morningstar) Sara Lee, Land O’ Lakes, Jennie-O Turkey, Dole Fruits, Subway and Caribou Coffee.
He has collaborated on all phases of corporate product development and manufacturing, working with chefs, food scientists, technologists, manufacturing plants and top departmental executives. Stiles has both created and launched regional and national programs for new products in multiple categories; wholesale branded and private label, retail branded and private label, and general consumer products.
Chef Stiles is a published author, contributing to industry trade journals, magazines and web-sites. He is also a featured speaker and culinary collaborator, providing a critical view point and documented research on burgeoning trends, (Health & Wellness) alternative naturally occurring, functional ingredients for food and beverage products (Healthy Exotic, Functional Super Foods) at corporations, industry seminars, trade shows and culinary roundtables around the USA.
Chef Stiles is on several Executive Board of Directors, including the Research Chef’s Association (RCA) Board and Chair of the RCA’s sponsorship Committee; Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School and Southwest Minnesota State Universities. (Culinology School) Chef Stiles resides in Champlin, MN, with his wife Molly and 2 year old son, “Lil’ Chef Oliver.