Our Team

The Future of Freshness^TM

Larry Bell, President and Founder is an internationally recognized expert in the development and commercialization of Controlled and Modified Atmosphere technologies for fresh perishables.  Bell invented the SAF-D® Sytem and has over 30 years of experience in the fresh food industry including senior management positions with Chiquita Brands International, Fresh International, Fresh Express, and TransFRESH Corporation. He has served on the board of directors of the National Food Processors Association and the National Food Laboratories. Bell is a veteran senior manager of several technology enabled fresh food startups, including a fresh Alaskan salmon processing and Modified Atmopshere (MA) shipping business.

Bell is known as “The (Technology) Father of Packaged Salads.” He pioneered modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technologies and production processes for fresh cut produce in the 1980’s. His technological leadership led to the launch of Fresh Express’s retail business in 1989 and Fresh Express remains the market leader in the category today.  Throughout the 1990’s, Bell was also instrumental in educating the food industrial community, consumers and media on the safety of the new category, further boosting it’s phenomenal growth.

More recently he led innovations of novel shelf life extending technologies for commodity and value-added fresh meat, seafood, fruit and fresh meals.  In 2002 Bell was honored with the Industrial Scientist of the Year Award, established to recognize an IFT (Institute of Food Technologists) member industrial scientist who has made a major technical contribution to the advancement of the food industry. In 1998 Bell also received the IFT Food Packaging Division’s Riester-Davis Award, the highest honor for achievement in food packaging in the United States. Bell holds many issued and pending fresh food related patents.

Bell earned degrees in Microbiology and Biology from U.C. Davis, where he completed his graduate work in Food Science & Technology. He also completed Stanford University’s Advanced Management Program, the California Institute of Technology’s Management of Technology & Innovation Program and passed the Patent Bar.

Steve Boord, Chief Executive Officer, has been an advisor and Board member to Global Fresh Foods since 2007. Steve’s responsibilities include corporate development and strategic and financial planning at Global Fresh Foods.

Steve has nearly 15 years of financial experience with growth companies and serves as Managing Director at Neyer Holdings Merchant Banking Group, a lead investor in Global Fresh Foods. Previously, Steve was vice president of investment banking at JPMorgan’s San Francisco office, where he helped build the firm’s West Coast general industries practice. Prior to JPMorgan, Steve worked in business development at Lucasfilm with responsibility for structuring licensing deals for George Lucas’ Star Wars prequels.

During his tenure, he executed hundreds of deals with product penetration in every territory of the world. Prior to Lucasfilm, Steve was a financial analyst at Hambrecht & Quist, a boutique San Francisco-based technology investment bank.

In aggregate, Steve has executed 25 private and public financings with a combined value of over $8 billion. Selected transactions include IPOs for Shutterfly and Dolby Laboratories, follow-on offerings for Coinstar and GenCorp, and a $2.1 billion leverage recapitalization for Clorox. Steve has worked on 15 separate M&A and strategic advisory projects. Notable deals include Chips and Technologies sale to Intel, the sale of Marmot to K2, Coinstar’s acquisition of American Coin Merchandising, and The Wine Group’s acquisition of Golden State Vintners.

Steve has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Kevin Bolejack, Vice President of Logistics and Procurement, has over 30 years experience developing, commercializing and operating Modified & Controlled Atmosphere Systems and Service Divisions.  Prior to starting his own IT consulting, Bolejack was Vice President of Operations at TransFRESH.  While at TransFRESH, Bolejack headed up the Controlled Atmosphere Gen 3.5 controller development team, interfacing with hardware and software engineers.  He engineered the communications software that is used to program TransFRESH’s Controlled Atmosphere Gen 3 Controller for Ocean Container CA systems.  He also maintained pallet operations responsibilities and handled operations for the marine department, including ports in Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle, and Houston.  He started up new marine operations in Valparaiso, Chile, Miami and Jacksonville, Florida, and Cape Town, South Africa.  These international ports were managed by local staff and trained by US Operations.

Bolejack started with TransFRESH as a Field Technician and held positions including Port Manager, Material Control Manager, and Operations Manager, before serving as Vice President of Operations.  Bolejack brings 30 years of personnel management, development, and training to Global Fresh Foods as well as a wealth of domain expertise in controlled atmosphere hardware and software systems.

Kevin Jesch, Manager, Global Operations and Logistics Support, has over 20 years’ experience in the food industry. Prior to starting with GFF, Jesch was at Heat and Control, a major food equipment manufacturer headquartered in California. He started at Heat and Control as a Project Manager where he managed a wide variety of food equipment projects, with responsibility for critical path, logistics and all technical and commercial aspects of the installations, with many of these projects within the Latin American region. More recently he worked as Product Manager, responsible for two product lines in their Food Inspection Equipment Division, taking these product lines from initial product launch to maturity. These efforts included aligning various internal resources to ensure success of the products, including Service, Spare Parts and Sales and Marketing support. He served as a technical resource and provided sales and customer support for North, Central and South America.  Prior to Heat and Control,  Jesch worked with a small firm which served food processors in Chile, with customers in the fish, fruit and vegetable canning industries, supplying equipment as well as spare parts and other supplies.  

Jesch has an MBA in International Management from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is fluent in Spanish and has an extensive background working in the food industry in Latin America.

Dave Nemiroff, VP Engineering and IT Support, was a consultant to Global Fresh Foods and co-led the original design and development of the GFF fuel cell and blue box system.  Dave brings over 25 years of engineering, manufacturing, systems integration, and technology management experience with startups, Fortune firms, public agencies and non-profits in the areas of materials science, aerospace manufacturing, food technology, commercial aquariums, museums and wastewater management systems.

Prior to joining Global Fresh Foods, Dave was VP Technology where he staffed and managed the R&D team of an early stage nano materials science startup and led the transformation of the host university labs into a reliable best-in-class, high-volume commercial facility. Earlier, with his consulting and contracting firm, he designed and built mission-critical industrial controls systems for life support systems for large public aquariums and management and monitoring systems for wastewater facilities. Additionally, working with clients supplying advanced composite materials to Tier 1 aerospace manufacturers, he drove process and quality improvement programs leading to significant cost reductions. Prior to starting his practice, Dave was a program and project manager with Hexcel and led the capital equipment installation, start up and material qualification of their Belgian subsidiary’s facility.

Dave holds a BA in Physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Alejandro Linderman, General Manager Chile, has over 5 years’ experience in food processes and starting companies in Chile. Before joining the GFF team, Linderman worked for Avomex a leading company in the use of Ultra High Pressure process in the avocado process. He was  in charge of helping project, build, and finally running the company in Chile until it was fully operational for two seasons, taking care specially from the production of the company from receiving the fruit until dispatch of the finished product. He also worked in the project of serving turkey meat into UHP processing, being able to enlarge the shelf life from 25 to 100 days for a third party client, leader in the turkey business in Chile. Alejandro also has a background in BTL marketing, having worked for almost seven years in helping big and medium companies in their marketing needs.

Linderman, brings knowledge in starting companies in Chile, and a great knowledge in GMP and HACCP implementation, and helping employees achieve their best from a  production stand point.