Jeff Chean

Chief Coffee Guy
Groundwork Coffee

Profile

Jeffrey Chean has been in specialty coffee since 1994 and is Groundwork Coffee’s “Chief Coffee Guy”, Principal, and co-founder. Groundwork is a certified organic coffee roasting company with roasteries and retail cafes in both Los Angeles, California and Portland, Oregon. While Jeff oversees the sourcing, purchasing, and roasting of all Groundwork’s green coffee, his main passions revolve around forging partnerships at origin with coffee growers. Building on these relationships, he develops programs that focus on improving the lives of coffee communities while increasing the supply chain of high-quality, certified organic specialty coffee. Jeff is a natural storyteller who wants to drive home the connection between the food and drink people consume with the stories, lives and struggles of those communities who make their doing so possible. Amongst the first people in the world to be certified as a Q Grader, Jeff is a subject matter expert on Sensory and Coffee Roasting, an active Judge with the Cup of Excellence, loves writing about himself in the third person, and is an all-around fun guy to travel with at Origin. Really.

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