Gary Hirshberg, husband of Meg Hirshberg, and the father of three teenage yogurt-eaters, is President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm. Gary has overseen the company's growth from its infancy as a 7-cow organic farming school in 1983 to its current $200 million in annual sales. This growth has been built with innovative marketing techniques that often combine the social, environmental, and financial missions of the company. One of the company's five missions is "to serve as a model that environmentally- and socially-responsible businesses can also be profitable." 
Gary is a New Hampshire native and was one of the first graduates of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He has received four honorary doctorates. He serves on several corporate and non-profit boards including Homegrown Naturals, Honest Tea and O'Naturals, a new chain of natural fast food restaurants he co-founded. He co-chaired The Social Venture Network for 5 years and is the founder of the Social Venture Institute, a "boot camp" for community-minded entrepreneurs. He also coaches youth soccer teams and is president of the Express Soccer Club.
Gary has won numerous awards for corporate and environmental leadership including: the 1999 Global Green USA's Green Cross Millennium Award (inspired by Mikhail S. Gorbachev) for Corporate Environmental Leadership. Gary was named "Business Leader of the Year" by Business NH Magazine and "New Hampshire's 1998 Small Business Person of the Year" by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Samuel Kaymen, founder of Stonyfield Farm, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He studied chemistry at Brooklyn College and electrical engineering at City College of New York.
In 1971 he founded the Northeast Organic Farmers Association (NOFA) and served as President for ten years. Samuel founded and served as Director of The Rural Education Center, an organic farming school in Wilton, NH. He served on the administrative council of The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NESARE) program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for three years.
Samuel founded Stonyfield Farm in 1983. Samuel, his wife Louise and their six children milked, fed and cared for the small herd of Jersey cows, and made the first batches of Stonyfield Farm yogurt in a little room off their barn. After 17 years in the yogurt-making business, Samuel retired. He and Louise are growing their own food, cutting their own firewood and getting their electricity from the sun. They are the grandparents of six beautiful, lively children, who are being raised on Stonyfield Farm yogurt!
