President, Design Principal

Jim possesses over three decades of outstanding foodservice and design experience. He approaches the challenges unique to every facility with the talent, creativity and confidence necessary to take garden variety kitchen, dining and servery environments to the next level of fad-resistant, site-specific sensibility and sophistication.

As a graduate of Michigan State University’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management program, Jim has spent his entire career in some form of foodservice. He is an award-winning designer who is renowned for the uniquely thoughtful and thorough planning and design that has been the hallmark of Bakergroup’s successful project work since 1984.