Christophe Hille
Senior Recruiter
Christophe rejoined KK&P as Senior Recruiter in 2025, specializing in placements for for-profit and non-profit organizations at the intersection of food, agriculture, health, and placemaking. He has thirty years of experience across the food sector—hospitality, retail, agriculture, non-profits, value chains, agritourism, consulting, and CPG brands—and has been building food businesses and teams for the past two decades. Over the past five years, Christophe has placed roles ranging from Executive Chef to Head of Human Resources to Executive Director. This experience complements KK&P’s twenty-year legacy of talent recruitment, organizational assessment, and performance management in its Good People are Good Business division.
Prior to originally joining KK&P in 2016 as a Senior Consultant, Christophe was a managing partner in several food businesses, including the restaurant Northern Spy and the nose-to-tail meat company Fleisher’s Craft Butchery. Earlier in his career, Christophe was the opening chef at San Francisco’s A16 Restaurant, worked in restaurants in Italy and France, and worked for several seasons at Wheatland Vegetable Farm, a job that changed the direction of his life. He earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, an AOS in Culinary Arts from the New England Culinary Institute and a M.S. in Food & Nutrition from New York University. He lives with his wife and two kids in Maplewood, New Jersey.