World Pizza Champions

The World Pizza Champions™, America’s #1 Pizza Team™, was founded by Tony Gemignani, Michael Shepherd, Siler Chapman, Joe Carlucci, Ken Bryant and Sean Brauser.

Since its inception, the World Pizza Champions™ team has grown into a U.S. based non-profit, multinational group made up of elite pizza professionals. Through international competition, educational outreach, public demonstrations, and community-based service the team is dedicated to promoting pizza making as a respected craft and viable career choice.

The selection of new The World Pizza Champions™ members is a process we take very seriously. We do not accept new members based on outside inquiries. Team members are carefully selected from among world champion competitors and acclaimed industry leaders. Inclusion on the team is through invitation only and is based on skill, character, compatibility, and selfless effort on behalf of the industry. Each member has dedicated years of practice and entrepreneurial energy to the craft. The members offer unique perspectives and areas of specialization including culinary, operations, promotion, and entertainment skills. Working for the common good of the craft, the The World Pizza Champions™ team is united by the shared goal of setting an industry-wide standard of excellence in all aspects of the pizza makers art. By partnering with a select group of high quality distributors and manufacturers the The World Pizza Champions™ are committed to being the premier ambassadors of pizza making as an art, a craft, and a business.