Robert P. Stiller

ROBERT P. STILLER is the President and CEO of Green Mountain Coffee
Roasters, Inc. a specialty coffee roaster based in Waterbury, Vermont.
Previous to his 20-year management of GMCR, Mr. Stiller co-founded
Robert Burton Associates, Ltd., in 1971, which introduced E-Z Wider
cigarette papers. During Mr. Stiller’s tenure at Robert Burton
Associates, the 120-employee company was written up in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and other media across the
country for a variety of leading business practices and promotional
activities. When Robert Burton Associates was sold in 1980, the company
was selling 90 million E-Z Wider booklets per year (about enough 2-1/2
inch wide paper in one week’s sales to stretch from New York City to
California) and had an estimated 25% of the cigarette paper market. He
hung the first Green Mountain Coffee Roasters shingle on a small caf in
Waitsfield, Vermont, in 1981. Today Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is
one of the nation’s leading specialty coffee companies, with sales
revenue of more than $65 million, in fiscal year 2000, and annual growth
of 25%. Prior to starting up Robert Burton Associates and then Green
Mountain Coffee, Mr. Stiller was employed over a period of 10 years by
Stillman Manufacturing, a closely held family business that went public
in 1963 and was later acquired by Teledyne, Inc. He holds a BA from
Parsons College, Iowa, in Mathematics, Business Administration and
Accounting. He also spent three years at Syracuse University in
Industrial Engineering before transferring to Parsons in 1968.