BESTBLENDER.COM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Community Expert & Adviser
Jennifer is a talented creative and graphic designer based in Pennsylvania.
What she does: Jen creates all the information graphics for our site. She works with us from conception through to final production to make sure that our information is presented graphically in the most effective, understandable, and user-friendly way. She additionally uses her amazing Photoshop skills to help improve the quality of photographic and other images. Jen designed the logo for our BestBlender.com.
Job Titles:
- Founder of JerryFergusonPhotography.Com
- Photography & Videography Adviser
Jerry is the founder of JerryFergusonPhotography.com and has over 20+ years of experience in the fields of photography and videography. In addition to being a photographic genius he currently moonlights as a quasi Avengers-esque super hero flying over the city of Phoenix, Arizona via chopper filming footage for various news organizations and publications. He also makes a mean green smoothie, which he prefers to call a purple smoothie, since it is loaded with blueberries.
What he does: Jerry provides best practice advice and guidance on all photographic aspects for BestBlender.com. From setting up light kits, to photographing recipes, to advising on our various video shoots, he let's us know what to do and how to do it.
Job Titles:
- Founder & Chief Blender Evangelist
BestBlender.com was created in 2014 by Matt Sedlacek. Matt's journey of blender discovery started in 2007 after creating the website PerfectSmoothie.com. This started as a fun project to document what he was learning about smoothie making to teach and help others. Soon the traffic grew and to date the website has received over 3 million visitors.
After doing lots of product research for PerfectSmoothie.com he realized the strong correlation between people being successful at achieving their goals with that of buying the right blender. To this end the idea for BestBlender.com was born and several years later the vision has finally become a reality.
What he does: Matt manages BestBlender.com and oversees the accuracy of product recommendations. He owns, tests, and regularly uses the following blenders: Vitamix 5200, Vitamix S30, Vitamix Professional Series 750, Blendtec Total Blender, Blendtec Designer Series 725, Oster Beehive, Breville Hemisphere Control, Ninja Professional, NutriBullet 600, KitchenAid Diamond 5-Speed, and the Philips HR2094.
Mel is a certified health coach, licensed massage therapist, and a graduate nursing student. For a decade, she worked at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona on an award-winning web development team. She's been a vegan for over 10 years and is excited to help support BestBlender.com's mission of helping people consume more plant-based foods.
Mel was employed at Dr. Andrew Weil's Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona from 1997 until 2007. She aided in the development of a groundbreaking online program for doctors who were interested in incorporating alternative therapies into their practice. Mel worked with health professionals to develop web-based curriculum in many modalities, including the areas of nutrition, mind-body medicine, botanical medicine, manual medicine, cultural issues in healing, and Chinese medicine, to name a few.
What she does: Mel leverages her expertise in online usability, research, and blenders to help makes sure our site is as user-friendly, accurate, and helpful as possible. She additionally helps with product testing as well as outreach to help collect our expert data usage information. She currently owns and regularly uses the following blenders: Vitamix 5200, Vitamix Professional Series 750, Blendtec Total Blender, Breville Hemisphere Control, Ninja Professional, NutriBullet 600, and the KitchenAid Diamond 5-Speed.
Job Titles:
- Nutrition & Recipe Expert, RD, CSR ,
- Registered Dietitian
Tara is a registered dietitian, licensed in the state of Texas and board certified as a specialist renal nutrition. She spends most of her time providing medical nutrition therapy to patients with chronic kidney disease, diabetes and end stage renal disease.