My name is Mikolaj Pociecha. I was born in the harbour city of Gdansk, Poland and raised on the north-west coast of Ireland. For the past few years I have lived in Tübingen, southern Germany and just this weekend I relocated to Amsterdam. Here I have joined the Back To Black team as Head Roaster. Apart from that I write on topics related to the coffee industry. My most recent book was about reimagining Canephora in context of specialty coffee. I sometimes also consult roasters and importers on roasting this particular species.
Hello I'm Chris Calkins I'm the owner and CEO of Gotham Coffee Roasters in New York City. Gotham is a 10 year old specialty roaster based in Brooklyn, with a retail shop in the Flatiron district of Manhattan.
Before Gotham I co-founded Spinelli Coffee, with a chain of stores in San Francisco. Before that I worked with la Marzocco and Starbucks. I’ve been doing this for a long time.
My name is Steve Moloney, i am the founder and CEO of The Barista League as well as Ordna Event Agency - the company that produces The Barista League. I was originally born in Australia but live and work in Gothenburg, Sweden.
I’m Kat Melheim - roaster, barista, coffee writer, artist, publisher, content creator… I do many things in the coffee industry these days! I’ve spent most of my coffee life in Denver, but currently live in Raleigh, NC, where I work for Black & White Coffee Roasters.
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27 Apr 2023
5 min read Hello my name is Alvin Cheng, I live in Hong Kong. I’m self-employed and also do freelance marketing among other things. Many people call me a social media influencer, although I consider myself to be more than that.
My name is Michalina Sujewicz, I am originally from Poland but have been living in New Zealand for last 9 years.
My name is Rodolfo Ruffatti Batlle, I was born in El Salvador and grew up in different parts of the world. I'm a coffee producer and I also run an importing company based in Berlin, Productor Coffee, which helps distribute my coffee as well as coffees produced by my friends.
Santiago and Victor Gamboa, two out of three of the founders behind Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters, a specialty coffee roastery based in London. Through our shops, we sell single-origin Colombian coffee with a focus on showcasing the diversity and complexity that can be found in beans from our home country.
I’m Driss from Marrakech, where I work as a roaster at Bloom Coffee Roasters in Marrakech, Morocco
I’m Ryan Woldt. I’m originally from Wisconsin (USA) but have moved around quite a bit. For the past ten years, I’ve been in Southern California.
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