Matt Rothe

Matt is a co-founder of Blue Ocean Barns, a contributing member to the executive team of KitchenTown, and the founder/principal of Crazy Beta Design. Matt describes the mix of all this as his “ikigai”. Previously, Matt co-founded the FEED Collaborative at Stanford University, where he was an educator-practitioner in design thinking and food system innovation, was a fellow at Stanford’s prestigious d.school, director of Stanford’s Sustainable Food Program, and an operations executive at both Attune Foods and Niman Ranch. Raised on a 10,000 acre conventional corn farm on the plains of Colorado, Matt's more formal degrees include a BA in Environmental Earth Science from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.