Cullen Gilchrist

Cullen Gilchrist
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationDartmouth College
Years active2012–present
Known forchief executive officer and founder of Union Kitchen

Cullen Gilchrist is an American restaurateur, economist and entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Union Kitchen, an accelerator of food businesses.

Education and career

Cullen obtained his high school diploma from Dartmouth High School in 2003. He attended Dartmouth College and earned a degree in Economics and Sociology in 2007. After graduating, he began his career as an intern in finance before switching to food business.

Cullen worked as a general manager and Area Food Safety Manager at Sodexo in Boston. In 2010, he relocated to Washington D.C. and worked at Think Food Group as a manager. In 2012, Cullen and Jonas Singer co-founded a pop up coffee shop called Blind Dog Cafe on Florida Avenue. In 2023, he was a speaker at the Good Business Summit and was part of Entrepreneurs in Residence 2023 held by Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship.

Union Kitchen

In 2012, Cullen co-founded Union Kitchen to partner with food businesses and link the founders of the businesses with resources, capital, and networks needed to grow their businesses. The company started in a 7,300-square-foot space shared commercial cooking space in a Northeast Washington warehouse. The company introduced a food business acceleration process. The accelerator is built out into four phases; Launch, Product Market Fit, Growth, and Scale. In 2022, Cullen established the Union Kitchen Fund 1, a $20M Series A investment fund.

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