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Cupper Profiles
The Coffee Review Cupping Board is a distinguished
group of specialty coffee industry leaders and experienced cuppers
assembled by the Coffee Review to assist in reviewing coffees. The
following individuals are the current Board members:
Kenneth Davids, head
of the Cupping Board, is an acknowledged industry coffee expert
and author of several books on the subject. Ken oversees all of
our ratings and reviews.
Mané Alves is Director of
Coffee Lab International and a member of the Technical Standards
Committee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA).
Robert Barker, currently a consulting
technician to the Coffee Review, is a green coffee buyer for Keystone
Coffee in San Jose, California and an organic coffee producer in
San Agustin, Colombia.
Lindsay Bolger is a
coffee buyer for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Waterbury, Vermont,
and an SCAA director.
Martin Diedrich is
Vice Chairman and Chief Coffee Executive of Diedrich Coffee.
Silvio Leite is chief
cupper and coffee classifier for Agribahia, Bahia, Brazil, and one
of Brazil's most respected and influential cuppers.
Ted Lingle is the Executive
Director of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA).
Sunanlini Menon, formerly
of the Coffee Board of India, is Chief Executive of Coffeelab, Bangalore,
India.
Paul Katzeff, a former
SCAA President, is founder of Thanksgiving Coffee Company in Fort
Bragg, California.
Kevin Knox, Vice President of Allegro
Coffee Co., is a former SCAA Director
Jim Reynolds is the green coffee buyer and longtime coffee
leader of Peet's Coffee in Emeryville, California.
Don Schoenholt, roastmaster and Chief Executive at Gillies Coffee, America's
oldest coffee merchant, is a "Founding Father" of the SCAA, as well
as its first Chairman.
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