Vadim's Bio 2019 Version

My name is Vadim Rozengurt. I was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1974 and immigrated to the United States with my family in 1978. I went to grade school mostly in San Francisco and was into breakdancing, baseball cards and skateboarding as a kid. I was lucky enough to attend the SF Jewish Community Center for summer camp and daycare and there I was introduced to a lot of different sports and camping. My dad was an oceanographer, so I was exposed to a lot of coastal and marine settings growing up.


I graduated high school in 1992 in Concord, CA. During the 1990s I experimented with all sorts of projects and studies. The Dotcom / WWW opportunities got my attention and so I worked in that world for awhile. During the 1990s I also got into house music and the related events. And during the middle of the 1990s I was introduced to superfoods and tonic herbs for the first time.


As the Dotcom hype slowed down I got interested in aeronautical technologies, which led me to joining the US Air Force Reserves in 2001. Once 9-11-2001 happened I started doing a bunch of research into that event and realized we were not being told the whole story. Politicians were lying. Doing the research led me to quitting the USAF in 2002. Then I joined AmeriCorps in 2002 and that took me on a journey of working with K-12 youth from 2002 to 2008. During this time I got a BA degree with a Health Science focus at John F. Kennedy University and started my MBA program in the same school.


In 2008 my friends and I started a business called Materia Prima. This business was mostly about
entertainment related events, and we even dabbled with a clothing line called: Meow & Zen. In 2009 I got my first dog with my then partner and in 2010 we ended up moving to Oakland's Glenview neighborhood to be closer to nature settings. To make a long story short, in 2010 I started studying permaculture, which got me deeper into herbs and led me to getting a job as a nutrition consultant at The Food Mill in Oakland in 2012. I also started my current Nucleus Nutrition business in 2012.


Suffice it to say, I stayed at The Food Mill until 2015 and eventually in 2016 I found ACCHS. I still have my Nucleus Nutrition business and I am now doing my best to integrate all of these experiences for the best.