This is the part where we talk about us, but our real success has been that it's always been about YOU!

We have realized that our true strength in the Culinary Team Building world has been our ability to always make your team building experience relevant to you and your attendees. So each and every program is a reflection of your desires, team objectives and goals.

What makes us different and able to customize each program has been our mindset around food and training. This is critical when you conduct a Culinary Team Building, to have the training and background of both culinary arts and corporate facilitation with speaking platform skills and has been the hallmark of what separates us from the cooking team building pack.

Sparkie! Our always excited mascot that reminds us to keep the fire burning inside!

A Bit of History

We weren't always called "CEO Chef". We started in 1994 as "Jim Connolly and Associates Team Builders" and began offering corporate team building programs to many of the elite of Silicon Valley like Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems. 

Programs were offered by Jim Connolly when he was still part-owner and Executive Chef of the then, highly rated and regarded "Emile's Restaurant". This was were Chef Jim really exercised his understanding of true leadership and effective team chemistry while building a world-class restaurant team at "Emile's".

Very quickly the Culinary Team Building business grew to the point were Jim resigned his post at his highly successful restaurant and he devoted all of his efforts to the corporate team building world. 

In 1996, the term "TeamCuisine" was born and became the flagship program of Jim Connolly & Associates.

The popularity of cooking team building exercises grew to where Jim took on new trainers and associates, first in his very good friend and colleague, Carol Cole (later became Carol Cole-Lewis), Vito Serpa and Geoff Di Brandi. 

In July of 2000, Jim Connolly was fortunate to find his current President and business partner, Renee Gordon, who now heads-up the event planning division along with her original passion of client relations.

We became "CEO Chef™" in March of 2007 after many years of being called "TeamCuisine" by our clients. The name change came to reflect more closely the mission and vision of the company. Our flagship cooking team building idea also changed it's name to the "Corporate Culinary Challenge™ and at the same time, to reflect the growing popularity of the Food Channel show "Iron Chef", we came up with the cooking team building exercise that uses competition called the "Ultimate Cooking Championship™"

In 2010 CEO Chef launched a new division that acknowledges the need for "Culinary Entertainment" that also reflects the growing interest in fine food, wine and dining, for various groups, companies and professional organizations.

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