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Kimbal Musk

Founder
Big Green

Kimbal Musk is chef, restaurateur, philanthropist, and food entrepreneur. His personal mission to to empower and invest in the next generation of passionate food entrepreneurs to innovate and grow nutritious, real food. Mr. Musk has been named a Global Social Entrepreneur by the World Economic Forum. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Kitchen Restaurant Group, Big Green, and the Executive Chairman of Square Roots.

The Kitchen Restaurant Group is a world class collection of restaurants focused on warm, genuine hospitality serving the highest quality, thoughtfully sourced food that's complex yet simple, bold yet comforting, seasonal and local whenever possible. Big Green is a 501c3 non-profit that believes growing food changes lives. Through outdoor learning environments, gardens, and programming, Big Green invests in communities to grow healthy food. Big Green has led global efforts to make gardening more accessible including Plant a Seed Day and the Million Gardens Movement and the world’s first giving DAO (a Decentralized Autonomous Organization) as an experiment in democratizing and decentralizing grantmaking. Musk co-founded an urban farm company, Square Roots, which grows fresh local greens in climate-controlled shipping containers with the mission to bring real food to people in cities around the world by empowering next-gen farmers.

Follow him on Twitter @Kimbal and Instagram @KimbalMusk.

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