Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> August 14, 2000

Michael Smolyansky – Lifeway Foods Inc (lway)

Michael Smolyansky has been Chief Executive Officer, President and Founder of Lifeway Foods since its inception in February 1986. From 1976 to 1985, he was Project Engineer and Department Manager of E.J. Littell Machine Co., of Chicago, IL, where he had primary responsibility for design of material handling equipment. Mr. Smolyansky is a graduate of the Kiev Institute of Technology. (M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1971). Profile
TWST: Give us an overview of Lifeway Foods, Inc., including your market

and your customer base.

Mr. Smolyansky: Lifeway Foods, Inc., was founded in 1986 with no money

and no financial support,