Nicolas Jammet

Nicolas Jammet is a Founder + Co-CEO of sweetgreen, the much-loved, organic, farm-to-table salad shops launched in Washington, D.C. in 2007. As Co-CEO, Nicolas oversees the strategy, growth, and operations for all of sweetgreen’s locations. Together with his two co-founders and fellow classmates from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Nicolas has built sweetgreen to become the market leader in local, organic, healthy fast food, with over 1,000 employees and 29 stores throughout Washington, D.C., New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Virginia, and Maryland, and with expansion plans into the West Coast. Sweetgreen has received numerous accolades from the press, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Food & Wine, Forbes, Bloomberg, the Washingtonian, CBS, and CNBC, and Nicolas and his partners have been selected as Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30: Food & Wine” and Food & Wine magazine’s “40 Big Food Thinkers 40 and Under.” In 2010, he and his co-founders also founded sweetlife, which has grown to become the region’s largest music and food festival, and a carbon-neutral event committed to sustainability.