i'm brandon gillis. [applause] i'm the vice president of business development for off the grid. i'm also suffering for a little bit of name tag envy, looking at $teven ra$pa's name tags with the dollar signs. i wish i requested that but i didn't. so, off the grid started with a humble goal. it was really to make street food happen all the time. our first market was in fort mason center, started off with seven trucks. really built around developing a community through food, finding unused, unwanted space, unlock

i'm brandon gillis. [applause] i'm the vice president of business development for off the grid. i'm also suffering for a little bit of name tag envy, looking at $teven ra$pa's name tags with the dollar signs. i wish i requested that but i didn't. so, off the grid started with a humble goal. it was really to make street food happen all the time. our first market was in fort mason center, started off with seven trucks. really built around developing a community through food, finding unused, unwanted space, unlock the value and create a dynamic space for the public and the community to grow and gather. over the course of the past seven years, we have grown the business into a number of different things, from mobile infrastructure, to the food struck events throughout the bay area, corporate catering, catering company, and more so a platform, and that is for empowering businesses and hosts and guests to unlock the value of space through authentic experiences. on the height of a given week during our peak season, we are generally between our 30 to 40 markets that we are currently ope