Food Start Up Help, founded by four colleagues at ICE, is an organization that helps budding entrepreneurs launch small food businesses. Today, we’d like to share the success story of one of our clients, ICE Pastry & Baking alum and Chef/Owner of The Savory Pie Guy, Zeke Mandel.
Trading in Wall Street for the Business of Food
Prior to attending ICE, Zeke worked for 8 years on Wall St as a programmer and CTO. Soon after earning an MBA in Finance & Entrepreneurship, he left his job to pursue a career in a food. Working as a consultant, Zeke supported several food-related businesses, but kept hitting a wall with investors because he lacked any official training in the industry. So Zeke enrolled at ICE, where he got to know Chefs Kathryn and Jeff, instructors in the Pastry & Baking Arts program.
