California Olive Ranch, Jim Lipman

Jim has 26 years of leadership experience in the food industry, ranging from Quality Assurance at Green Garden Foods, R&D at Tanimura and Antle, and SVP of Operations at Tulocay and Company. Jim has been at California Olive Ranch for 15 years. For 8 years he was the VP of Production Operations. He is now the now COO. COR, founded in 1998, was the first company to take American olive oil to a whole new level. While olives have grown in California for hundreds of years, COR pioneered new ways of cultivating and harvesting olives to make our extra virgin olive oil premium and affordable. They’ve developed their own ranches and helped family farmers throughout Northern California develop previously unusable farm acreage into olive orchards while using sustainable production methods every step of the way. In 2016, they started developing long-term relationships with top-notch olive farmers across the globe. They proudly partner with the best extra virgin olive oil producers in Spain, Italy, Chile, Argentina, and Portugal. Jim has BS in Food Science from Cal Poly. Jim is the Chairman of the American Olive Oil Producers Association (AOOPA) and serves on the board of the California League of Food Producers.