Arran Stephens has been at the leading edge of the sustainability movement for most of his life, and is the founder and CEO of Nature's Path - North America's largest organic breakfast foods company with facilities in BC, Ontario, Washington and Wisconsin, with sales to over 40 countries. Nature's Path is proudly independent and family-run. Arran has a background in Fine Arts, married to Ratana Stephens in 1969 (Ratana is Nature's Path's COO), father of four children, two of whom are involved in the family business, and grandfather of four.

1967: Started Canada's first natural foods restaurant with $7
1971-1981: Founder/President, Lifestream Natural Foods in Canada
1985: Founded, with wife Nature's Path Foods
1995: Purchased Lifestream back from Kraft Foods
1999: Author, Journey to the Luminous, Elton Wolf Publishers
2002: The Canadian Health Food Association bestowed its first Organic Award of Excellence for Arran's outstanding commitment to organic and sustainable food production.
2002: Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of The Year, Pacific Region.
2002-2004: Board Member, Organic Trade Association (OTA)
2005: Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) Hall of Fame Award
2004-5 & 6: "Canada's Best 100 Employers" (MacLean's Magazine)
2005-present: Chair of the non-profit S.O.S. Ecology Centre, Richmond, B.C.
2007: Processor of the Year, BC Food Technology Institute
2007: Schumacher Sustainability Award, nominated by the Green Party
2007: Board Member, The Non-GMO Project
2008: Nature's Path purchased 2,400 acres of fertile Saskatchewan farmland while partnering with local organic farmers on a cooperative crop-share basis-an initiative to increase organic cropland and support family farms
2008: July 16: Nature's Path opens its 230,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art breakfast foods facility in Sussex, Wisconsin
2008: Advisory Board, Sustain.org
2008: Elected to the Board of Directors, the Rodale Institute headquartered in PA.

Nature's Path has raised and donated nearly $1,000,000 to non-profit organizations that protect endangered species and habitats (see: www.envirokidz.com), sponsors organic garden projects in inner-city schools and the SOS Ecology Centre, Richmond, BC.  Nature's Path was the first cereal company to become certified organic (1990), and is a founding participant of the Non-GMO Project.

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