FEATS IN SWEETS: WHO WINS YOUR 2014 VOTE?
Ambrose Lee, R&D manager at Jelly Belly
Ambrose Lee, R&D manager at Jelly Belly, epitomizes fun and creativity in the candy industry. For 28 years, he has been concocting Jelly Belly beans and has dreamed up flavor firsts such as buttered popcorn and espresso varieties. His small R&D team have also created unusual and seasonal flavous such as carrot cake flavor, juicy pear, green tea and chili mango. More recently, Ambrose developed a draft beer-flavored jelly bean that was well-received at the ISM trade show in February.
"We take these for granted now that Jelly Belly has made so many flavors but just about every new flavor has laid new confectionery ground," said Tomi Holt, director of communications at Jelly Belly.