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Bob Stiller currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters. Stiller founded Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and served as the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board from the company’s inception in July 1981 to May of 2007. As Chairman and Founder, Stiller has a deep and ongoing interest in the trusteeship of the Company while also focusing on Board excellence and governance issues. He also dedicates his time to the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Foundation and related Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Previously, in September 1971, Bob co-founded his first consumer products business, Robert Burton Associates, which developed and sold E-Z Wider products. Bob served as its President and a Director until June 1980, when Robert Burton Associates was sold. Prior to starting up Robert Burton Associates and then Green Mountain Coffee, Stiller was employed over a period of ten years by Stillman Manufacturing, a closely held family business that went public in 1963 and was later acquired by Teledyne, Inc.
Stiller holds a BA from Parsons College, Iowa, in mathematics, business administration and accounting. Currently, Bob serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont. He is an advocate for Appreciative Inquiry and using business as an agent for world benefit. Bob is a certified meditation instructor, and he leads Inner Solutions, a non-profit organization devoted to that area of training.
Bob prefers our Breakfast Blend as his morning coffee. He says, "It's a very balanced coffee that has fruity tones that you get with a classic Central American coffee plus the full body of an Indonesian." | 