President of company involved in market-driven strategic planning and specialty food marketing. Training, organizational development, market research, sales and public relations. More than twenty years in the specialty food trade. Import, export and national brand management of dozens of specialty/gourmet food products. CEO of Food Marketing International, Inc., S. Richard Hall & Company, Inc., SpecialtyFoodResource.com, LLC, and Naturasol S. A. de C.V (a Mexican trading company).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Sell Your Specialty Food (the 5th edition of From Kitchen to Market), Kaplan Publishing, New York, NY. Note: Sell Your Specialty Food provides the reader with everything needed to sell gourmet specialty foods. It is a basic "how to" marketing guide. Winner of the 1998 Publishers Marketing Association ‘Benjamin Franklin Award’ for excellence in design and editing.
- Food Entrepreneur eZine, Managing Editor
- Food Entrepreneur.Contributing Editor
- The Market for Specialty Foods, Frost & Sullivan, Inc., New York, NY
- The U.S. Dairy Market, Frost & Sullivan, Inc., New York, NY
- The Market for Upscale Kitchen Electrics, Frost & Sullivan, Inc., New York, NY
SELECTED SYMPOSIA
Workshop Facilitator, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Specialty Food Marketing Workshop, Fairbanks (AK)
Plenary Speaker, New Food Entrepreneur Conference, Seattle (WA)
Workshop Facilitator, Association of Small Business Development Centers annual conference, Nashville (TN), Chicago (IL) and Miami (FL)
Moderator, Tortilla Industry Association Technology Conference, Los Angeles.
Guest Lecturer, Specialty Food Business Development Workshops, Idaho Department of Agriculture; University of Vermont, University of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Specialty Foods Association, North Carolina Specialty Food Association, Vermont Specialty Foods Association, West Virginia Office of Economic Development, and Virginia Specialty Food Association.
Principal Guest, CNBC "Money Talk," Nationwide Television Broadcast.
EDUCATION
Graduate Degree in Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale, Arizona.
Undergraduate Degree with concentration in Government and Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Post-graduate, non-degree, studies: Seminar for Small Business Executives, the Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth College; Seminar for Latin American Executives, School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University; Multinational Enterprise, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
