Rob Stephen

Rob Stephen is the Managing Director for Covoya Specialty Coffee in Providence, Rhode Island.   Since entering the Specialty industry over 35 years ago, he’s worked at several nationally known coffee companies, and has had the opportunity to work in retail, roasting, quality, international development and coffee trading.  In addition to being a Q Grader instructor for many years, he is also a Past President of the SCAA and of Coffee Kids, and represented the USA at the ISO council on international coffee standards (TC34:SC15) for several years. Specializing in quality standards development and supply chain optimization, he has lectured extensively at coffee events and trade shows around the world.