Above Food
Kim M. Kuebler has extensive experience in various roles and industries. Kim M. currently serves as the Owner of Select Fleet Transportation, Inc. Since 2022, they have been the Head/U.S. Operations of Above Food. Prior to that, Kim worked as a Agribusiness and Energy Strategic Advisory-Partner at Elevar Partners, LLC, where they focused on agribusiness and agriculture, specializing in agronomic services, fertilizers, specialty grains, and plant protein value chains. Kim M. also has experience as the Executive Vice President/Global Business Development at Seaboard Overseas Limited, where they managed a subsidiary and worked in commodity areas such as meat proteins, sugar, rice, and dairy. Additionally, Kim held the position of Director Of Marketing/BASF and ExSeed Genetics at BASF Plant Science, where they oversaw the marketing of value-added grains and launched the ExSeed Enhanced and NutriDense brands. Kim M. also worked at Koch Industries as the General Manager - Grain and Oilseeds Merchandising/Director of Marketing - Genetics and at Continental Grain Company as the Vice President/Trade, managing international marketing and trading activities for agricultural commodities.
Kim M. Kuebler completed a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Asian Studies/Mandarin Chinese Language at the University of Arizona from 1973 to 1977. Following that, they pursued a Master of International Management (M.I.M.) degree in Asia/International Management at the Thunderbird School of Global Management from 1977 to 1978.
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Above Food
Plant-based food company Above Food Corp. was founded in 2020 to deliver dense, nutritious, sustainable and superior food products. The company focuses on a supply chain from “field-to-fork” to ensure that customers understand the complete journey of their food. Above Food maintains a chain of custody of their plant proteins throughout the foodproduction value chain, delivering food to customers and consumers at affordable prices. The company sources its proteins and ingredients, which include peas, lentils, fava beans, oats and chickpeas, only from the highest-quality producers in the world. The company has created its own technology for producing world-class texture and flavor of plant-based foods. These trademarked manufacturing technologies include TXTexturized Xtrusion and Precision Flavouring, both created to address the most important variables of plant-based foods, which are taste and texture.The company has also acquired two companies producing world-class oat-based food products: Only Oats and Culcherd - Dairy Alternatives, enabling Above Food to meet the rising demand for oat milk and other plant-based dairy products and meats. The company’s leaders have extensive experience stretching across the entirety of the complex food production ecosystem. Four food industry veterans co-founded the company. They are Lionel Kambeitz, CEO and Executive Chairman, Donato Sferra, Executive VP, Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Development, Tyler West, CEO and President of Purely Canada Foods Corp., and Martin Williams, President and Chief Innovation Officer of Above Food Brands.