Brian became president of The Food Institute in 2002 and has worked for this 78-year-old organization since 1980. Brian oversees the day-to-day operations of the Upper Saddle River, N.J.-based association, which disseminates industry information through its weekly report, daily e-mail updates, seminars and webinars, reaching more than 60,000 industry professionals. Brian graduated from Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., in 1980 with a B.A. in political science and serves on the New Jersey Food Alliance of Rutgers' Food Policy Institute. He received a master's in administrative science from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2005.