Michael Smolyansky

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).