• Name: Keith G. Kelly
• Company: Ice-O-Matic
• Location(s): Global HQ is Denver, CO
• Do you have a niche product? No. We make commercial ice making equipment… although we are known for our Top Air Discharge machines.
• How did you get involved in the Foodservice Industry? I worked for an Export Management Company in NY after Grad School and we represented quite a few U.S. manufacturers: Frymaster, Cambro, Metro, Ice-O-Matic, Middleby Marshall to name a few.
• Describe the best foodservice job that you have done? As the President of Ice-O-Matic I personally have not done any jobs, but you can’t miss our products in nearly every Starbucks in the world.
• What’s the greatest advice you have been given about this industry? Always do what you say you are going to do.
• If you weren’t in foodservice, what other industries do you have an interest in? Teaching or something to do with the outdoors.
• What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t know if it is my greatest, but certainly the most rewarding achievement has been that of being the best dad and husband I could be.
• What’s your favorite activity to do locally? Golfing and snowboarding.
• What is your favorite activity outside of the office? I am a Colorado guy so anything outside: hiking, trail riding, golf, bungee jumping, climbing 14’ers.
• Where is your favorite place to travel? I have been to 71 countries in my life…and I am guessing my favorite place to travel is probably someplace I haven’t been yet.
• Name one item on your bucket list. Flying squirrel suits off the cliffs in Norway.