Andrew Linnemann

TwinPoint Collective brings deep leadership expertise that can help you build, scale, and transform your business.

Leveraging my deep product development and supply chain expertise to support a financial, share services and process improvement focused consultancy. - Completed a consulting engagement with a large Food and Beverage organization as project lead on green coffee operations and blend management optimization. We drove inventory and blend management improvements and led SAP/ERP functional requirements gathering, translating operational workflows into functional requirements.

Providing unparalleled expertise and guidance throughout the business and product development process. Leveraging a strong foundation in beverage and specialty coffee to scale products, drive success, and foster innovation. - Led a strategic value‑proposition and portfolio review, assessing trade positioning, competitive dynamics, and growth opportunities with large roasters and multinational partners for a global coffee processor. - Provided market expansion advisory support, including quality review, operational and branding synergy assessment, and portfolio strategy aligned with international growth objectives for a Latin American focused exporter/importer.

Tasked with reestablishing coffee leadership for category, marketing, agronomy, and communications teams for largest Starbucks market outside of North America. Served as executive advisor, reporting into CMO.

Directed 34-member team that owned and managed global coffee quality, development, and operations. Collaborated and partnered with business partners, suppliers, and industry. Strategically built industry-leading operations and networks. Reported to EVP of Global Coffee, Social Impact, and Sustainability.

Directed team of 45 manufacturing, product development, operations, and education experts, with global scope, supporting retail and channel development business. Responsible for $500M in raw material inventory and $30M in operations spend. Delivered coffee and tea ingredients and portfolio of products. Reported to 2 EVPs and absorbed additional team, following period of organizational changes.

Promoted into newly created role to integrate coffee quality, development, and education teams. Unified coffee messaging across retail, product, manufacturing, and business teams.

Spearheaded global standards and strategies for green coffee, including blend and recipe management. Guided site quality and globally dispersed teams across company-owned and 3rd-party manufacturing plants. Gained experience that established strategic leadership foundation for business development.

Established on-site coffee quality operations for remote manufacturing site. Partnered with manufacturing floor leaders scaling double digit, year-over-year volume growth, process and product quality, leadership culture.

As one of the founding Board Members, our role was to successfully integrate two organizations and establish purpose, vision and mission, built upon a new set of core values that better reflect and serve our diverse, global membership. The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has become the largest coffee trade association built on foundations of openness, inclusivity, and the power of shared knowledge. SCA’s purpose is to foster global coffee communities to support activities to make coffee a more sustainable, equitable, and thriving activity for the whole value chain.

As a member of the board of directors, I was responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight for the SCAA team and director. During this tenure, the board was responsible for the successful transition and merger with the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe, ensuring continuity of leadership and member services. The Specialty Coffee Association of America, founded in 1982, was a non-profit trade organization for the specialty coffee industry.