Meet
Our Team
Coffee Hound is veteran founded, certified women owned and a Maine Made brand. We are a team of classically trained coffee roasters, baristas, certified technicians and leaders in our field. We have served over a million customers at our cafes and now deliver that cafe experience to homes across the nation! Enjoy our small farm-grown, small-batch roasted coffee.
Jen
Company President from Pennsylvania moved to Maine in the mid 90's. Member of Specialty Coffee Association, Maine Made and WBENC certified woman business. Winner of Maine’s 2020 BigGig entrepreneur pitching contest and named most exciting start up company in Bangor for 2020 by UpStart Maine.
Chris
A veteran, company founder and chief visionary officer from Presque Isle, Maine. The company’s head coffee roaster is a certified technician for Rancilio Espresso Machines and Diedric coffee Roasters. Member of the Specialty Coffee Association and a former professional snowboarder. Chris first learned the art of espresso while stationed in the Sinai Peninsula.
Kayla
Director of Operations, moved from Washington State to Maine in pursuit of a dream. Having grown up in the Seattle area where coffee is a culture, the daily cup is a cornerstone in her life. Avid maker with a strong interest in traditional crafts and bringing bits of the past into the present. Dreams of sailing the world to experience different cultures (and different coffees, of course).
Becca
Operations Manager, Becca recently moved to Bangor, Maine from Springfield, Missouri. She has been interested in coffee and coffee culture since she was 10 years old after her first visit to a cafe. Her other big passions, being a consummate crafts-person, are fiber arts and poetry.
Wayne
Merchandising, Wayne is originally from Downeast Maine, he first got involved in the coffee industry twenty years ago in Seattle, WA and is now the co-owner of Chimera Coffee Co cafe in Bangor. With a passion for the outdoors, he can be found exploring Maine’s back roads and waterways, probably with a coffee close by.
Kiersta
Coffee Production Assistant, she recently joined our team part-time while attending Bangor at the United Technologies Center high school in the business leadership track.
John
Roasting Technician, retired Sergeant of United States Marines and the Silent Drill Platoon, is now living a post retirement dream roasting coffee. He brings the same precision to details in roasting as he did for elite missions. And while he considers himself a Marine today, tomorrow and forever - he is also an exceptional coffee roaster.
Arlo 2009-2021
The original Coffee Hound.
Rest in peace big guy - you were loved by all....
Our tribute to Arlo, the Four Footed Companion an Ethiopian Medium-Dark Roast which proceeds support the Arlo Fund grant program.
