Jean-Marc Bernelin, Technical Consultant of Callebaut Asia Pacific (S) Pte Ltd is no stranger to our trade professionals in Asia Pacific since 2002. With a great passion in being a professional pastry chef, Jean-Marc knew that it was essential to attain an academic achievement in order to embark on this career. Therefore from 1992 to 1996, he took up professional pastry courses at Chamber of Commerce in Paris.
During this period, Jean-Marc worked as an apprentice with FERRANDI in different pastry shops in Paris. And he was selected as the best apprentice of France in 1994 and titled as the grand price winner of Arpagon competition in junior category.
Achieving the award had indeed allowed Jean-Marc to carve out from an apprentice to a professional pastry chef in different countries to organizations such as being a pastry cook in the Prime Minister office during his national service.
Jean-Marc’s career moved on to another level when he was the pastry chef with Hediard, United Arabs Emirates from 1998 to 1999. His responsibilities were to overseeing the pastry-bakery department, opening of shops, creating all recipes to involvement in all restaurants promotions.
Jean-Marc continued his professional journey in Singapore from 1999 to 2001 as a Pastry and Bakery Chef in a French pastry shop. Besides assuming the above-mentioned responsibilities, Jean-Marc had different role to play; from purchasing of material, training, organizing catering services to ensuring customer satisfaction in the shop. He was even nominated as Inniskillin Pastry Chef of the Year at the World Gourmet Summit 2002 Award of Excellence.
With his vast experiences throughout the past 9 years as a pastry chef, it has greatly helped Jean-Marc tremendously when assuming his position as a Technical Consultant. Jean-Marc’s main responsibilities are to conduct demonstration in trade exhibitions to new product launches, give new ideas and technical advise to our key customers in the Asia Pacific Region.