Eric Montell

Eric Montell is a distinguished leader with vast experience working in the restaurant, healthcare, hotel, and university environments. A seasoned and award-winning professional who has overseen multi-site dining plans, serving over 12,000 meals daily and generating an impressive sum of fifty million dollars annually. Notably, Eric's expertise extends to collaborating with different professors, research teams, as well as cross-functional teams to provide optimal dining strategies and programs.

He has significant success in directing, coaching, and building the capacity of over fifty managers and 500+ employees while promoting professionalism, cross-functional work cultures, and superior performance in both unionised and non-unionised environments. Eric has also overseen multiple capital improvement projects in dining halls, retail cafes, and even a football stadium rebuild, costing around twenty million dollars.

Eric's educational achievements include leadership studies at Stanford University, Negotiation program at Harvard University law school, culinary arts studies from the renowned Culinary Institute of America and a bachelor's degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.