Kevin was born in upstate N.Y. in 1967. He has one older brother and his mother both living in upstate N.Y. Kevin graduated from Johnson & Wales University with an A.O.S. in Culinary Arts and a B.S. in Food Management. He worked as a chef for many years and was the Executive Chef of Noble’s Grille in Winston-Salem N.C and has cooked for the likes of Julia Child, Frank Sinatra, Jeff Gordon, and Hale Irwin.

He attended Seminary in 1997 at Baptist Theological Seminary of Richmond, graduating with his MDIV in 2000 and then his DMIN in 2008. It was there he met his wife Linda. They have two beautiful boys, Elijah who is 10 and Joshua who is 12, and a beast of a dog named Ruby Mae. Kevin loves the mountains, golf, sports (especially the NY Yankees), movies and plays some classical guitar.