Dan Cox
Founder & Owner, Dan Cox
Coffee Analysts founder Dan Cox started his career in coffee at a start-up coffee roasting company in 1981. For the next decade, he held numerous positions in coffee organizations from retail clerk to VP and junior partner.
In 1992 he was named the “Man of the Year” and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Specialty Coffee Association of America.
During the same year, Dan founded Coffee Enterprises and officially expanded to Coffee Analysts in 1996.
Dan is the President of Coffee Analysts and continues to offer senior tasting expertise as a Certified Q-Grader and Q-Grade Instructor.
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Paul W. deLima III
Paul W. deLima III, Director of Coffee Operations
Paul’s work in the coffee industry began in 1993 when he became the fourth generation of “Paul deLimas” to enter his family’s coffee roasting business. Over the next fifteen years, Paul worked in nearly all of the departments of the Paul deLima Coffee Company, including manufacturing, distribution, sales and marketing, quality assurance and finance. During his tenure there he developed a keen interest in green coffee and focused on learning the areas of the business directly associated with green coffee. In 1996 he became Green Coffee Manager, assuming responsibility for all forecasting, procurement, logistics, blending, and quality assurance of the company’s green coffee.
Paul joined Coffee Analysts as Director of Coffee Operations in the fall of 2006. He continues to expand his coffee knowledge through visits to producing countries and regular interactions with importers and exporters.
Paul is a Certified Q Grader.
Paul holds a BA from Lewis and Clark College and an MBA from Syracuse University.
Eric Svensson
Eric studied Quality Improvement Management at the University of Minnesota prior to moving to Vermont in 1996. After working for half a decade in Special Education at a middle school in Richmond, Vermont, he earned a Business Administration degree in Operations and HR from the University of Vermont. Eric was the Operation Managers for the Zota Soda Company which produces a line of organic-green-tea-based soda. His responsibilities included raw materials research and acquisition, production scheduling, managing the laboratory, conducting QA product testing, and product line R&D.
Eric joined the Coffee Analysts team in spring 2007 as the Physical Laboratory Manager and is a member of the cupping panel. He has had the privilege of tasting various coffees around the world on his extensive travels both domestically and abroad.
Eric lives in South Burlington, Vermont with his two sons, Aland and Jagr.
David Morrill
David Morrill, Sensory Laboratory Specialist
David is a native Vermonter who joined the Coffee Analysts Sensory Team in 2001. Prior to joining Coffee Enterprises, he traded world commodity futures, including coffee contracts, for a private investor in Boston. Making a complete career change in the mid 1980, David moved to Monterey Bay in California where he owned a Healing Studio in Carmel.
David returned to Vermont in the early 1990 and became involved in health activism issues. He continues his work in community planning for the Vermont Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control & Prevention, helping to develop strategies to meet the needs of people and their families living with chronic illness and disease in rural states.
After attending the SCAA in Boston in 2003, David began doing more extensive work at Coffee Analysts. He continues to gain much knowledge and experience sorting green coffee from origin & cupping coffee daily. He regularly sample roasts greens on our Jabez Burns & Sons sample roasters for evaluation in our cupping room. In November, 2005 he successfully completed 3 SCAA Skill Building Workshops for Roasting, Brewing Fundamentals & Comparative Cupping. He is also a Certified Brewing Technician. In January 2006, David joined a group of people on a Coffee Harvest Tour as guests of the Specialty Coffee Association of El Salvador.
David spends time on the weekends with his family and his woodworking endeavors or in Montreal, just an hour and a half away. After all these years he remains steadfast to a cup of full-bodied Sumatran coffee.
Peter Montane
Peter Montane, Laboratory Technician
Peter is a graduate of Sterling College and a Vermont resident. He gained practical knowledge in laboratory techniques from previous work experience in a variety of scientific fields, ranging from limnology to pharmaceuticals. Having joined the quality control team with no prior coffee background, Peter is now a key member of the Physical Testing branch of Coffee Analysts.