Geoff Bartakovics

Geoff Bartakovics is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and the author of a cookbook, Tasting Table: Cooking with Friends, published by Flatiron Books in 2019. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Tasting Table, a digital media brand targeting food influencers. Bartakovics is currently the CEO of Housing.Cloud, which he co-founded with Sasha Bratyshkin.

Early life and education

Bartakovics studied English literature at the University of Chicago, and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar.

Career

Prior to launching Tasting Table in 2008, Bartakovics was a project manager in asset-backed finance at UBS Investment Bank.

In 2019, he sold Tasting Table to Static Media and joined real estate development firm Artifact as COO. Bartakovics co-founded Housing.Cloud with Sasha Bratyshkin, backed by Bienville Capital.

Recognitions

• In 2012, he was named one of Out magazine's OUT 100.
• Bartakovics was named an "Insurgent of 2010" by The New York Observer, recognizing him as one of the young New Yorkers impacting media, politics, business, culture, and style.
• In 2009, he was named one of "40 Food Thinkers under 40" by Food & Wine magazine.

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