Sysco Northern California and European Imports Virtual Showcase - PM Session

Mike’s Hot Honey is America’s leading brand of hot honey. Founded in 2010 by Mike Kurtz, the brand was born from a desire to create and share the highest quality honey infused with chili peppers. Mike began drizzling his signature hot honey on pizzas at the Brooklyn pizzeria where he worked, and customers started to ask if they could buy bottles to take home. Mike’s Hot Honey became a word-of-mouth sensation, sparking the creation of a new category of honey. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Mike’s Hot Honey can now be found on restaurant menus and retail shelves across the US.

Tom Garrity is co-founder, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Fra' Mani Handcrafted Foods in Berkeley, California. Prior to co-founding Fra' Mani in 2004,Tom practiced corporate law in New York City and San Francisco for large, multinational law firms. He is a member of the California, New York, and Washington, DC bar. In a previous life, Tom taught Greek and Latin at UC Berkeley, where he earned a BA, MA and PHD in Classics. At Fra' Mani, Tom's formal duties include oversight of all financial and legal matters and membership on the board of managers; informally, Tom is deeply involved in maintaining Fra' Mani's relationships with its distribution partners, especially in the area of food service.

Fiscalini Farmstead started as a dairy farm over 100 years ago in Modesto, Ca. We are family owned and operated and we are committed to making the best-tasting, handcrafted cheeses in the world. By preserving old-world traditions, we use only the milk from our cows which we tend with utmost care, resulting in superior tasting cheese. Our family, master cheesemakers and our team take great pride in sharing our tradition with consumers nationwide. We grow over seventy percent of the feed for our herd and use wastewater to fertilize our crops. We recycle water and waste to produce electricity, and our cheese is made with renewable energy.