The annual Power Breakfast networking event hosted by the Washington State University Carson College of Business will feature Kurt Beecher Dammeier (’82), founder and CEO of Sugar Mountain, a food company representing food brands and restaurants focused on healthy ingredients.
The Power Breakfast is designed to inform, inspire and engage business leaders on contemporary business issues. The event is $59 and will be held 8-10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Seattle. Participants may register online until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16.
Beecher Dammeier will share business insights in a fireside chat format with Carson College Dean Debbie Compeau. Discussion points will include how he turned a passion for real food into a regional movement, why clean ingredients and conscious leadership matter now more than ever and what it takes to build a business with purpose and stay true to it.
A fourth generation Puget Sound native, Beecher Dammeier has always felt passionate about authentic, full-flavored foods, free of artificial additives. His Sugar Mountain company is known for the award-winning Beecher’s Handmade Cheese and The Butcher’s Table, a Seattle steakhouse that features Mishima Reserve, his luxury Wagyu beef brand. With each operation, Beecher Dammeier’s goal is to demonstrate how quality ingredients result in delicious meals, without added food colorings, flavor enhancers or preservatives.
Beyond the retail world, Beecher Dammeier influences people’s eating habits through his book Pure Flavor and Pure Food and through The Beecher’s Foundation, an educational program focused on healthy food choices and production. In addition to promoting clean ingredients, Sugar Mountain also significantly invests in plastics and carbon reduction.
Power Breakfast sponsors include Alaska Airlines, BDO (silver level); CougsFirst!, Dryland Media, the Hotel Group and Windy Point (bronze level).
