Meet The Team

Dr. Andrew Maternowski and Dr. Monica Randles

Nutcase Vegan Co-Founders

Hello! We are the Co-Founders of Nutcase Vegan. We are both retired physicians who practiced medicine for over 20 years. We started our business because we wanted to create a healthy vegan product for our family and friends. We were dedicated locavores; after viewing Food Inc in 2010, our daughter announced she was a vegetarian from that day forward. As physicians with teenagers, we sought a healthy, fulfilling meat alternative to recreate our favorite dishes. We crafted a tree nut, brown rice and quinoa based ground “meat” that is made from whole foods, healthy and satisfying.

Guadalupe Diaz

Healthcare worker for over 20 years with training in diabetes management, and healthy cooking classes for different local non-profit organizations, medical interpreter, and a foodie at heart.Diabetes prevention has been one of the reasons that moves me to change my diet and lifestyle, my daughter inspired me to become vegetarian. As a Mexican this has been a challenge since our cuisine has meat in most of our dishes, but I also discover that we can implement many dishes only with vegetables or other supplements and is not expensive at all, in fact it is cheaper way to cook. I am a true believer that we are what we eat, am not a full vegetarian or vegan yet, but I have been able to reduce the meat intake in my diet to once a week and has been a joy to discover the change in my health.

James Gould

My name is James Gould. I work in sales and operations at Nutcase Vegan Meats. I graduated from Grand Valley State university with a Bachelors in communications and advertising. Slight history buff and Liverpool FC supporter, up the reds.