Luke Holden
- Luke Holden is the CEO of Luke’s Lobster, a seafood restaurant chain with 39 locations in several US cities including New York, Miami, Washington D.C., and Boston, as well as in Japan and Taiwan.
- Before he started his seafood empire in 2009, Holden worked on Wall Street as an investment banker for just under three years.
- The 35-year-old CEO lives in South Portland, Maine, wakes up at 5:00 a.m. every day for a high-intensity workout, spends his days in small group and one-on-one meetings with his team, and gets more than 250 emails each day.
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After just under three years working on Wall Street, Luke Holden cofounded Luke’s Lobster in New York City in 2009 — and in 10 years, the seafood restaurant has expanded to 39 locations across the US and in Japan and Taiwan.
The 35-year-old seafood CEO lives in South Portland, Maine, with his wife and one-year-old daughter.
He travels two to three days per week for work, but when he’s home in Maine, Holden spends his days between the Seafood Company, where live lobster comes in from the coast of Maine, Nova Scotia, and Quebec, and the new flagship restaurant in Portland.
Here’s a look at a typical day for Holden, from his 5:00 a.m. workout to meetings with his team, managing fisherman relationships, and ending the day with his family, lobster rolls, and Netflix.
Luke Holden is the CEO and cofounder of Luke’s Lobster, a seafood restaurant with 39 locations across the US and in Japan and Taiwan.
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Holden, a Maine native, cofounded Luke’s Lobster in 2009 with his father, Jeff, a lobster processor, and Ben Conniff.
Luke’s Lobster operates in cities including New York, Miami, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Boston.
Holden is typically traveling for work two or three days out of the week. But when he’s at home in South Portland, Maine, he wakes up at 5:00 a.m. to fit in a workout. "Now that I have a daughter (and another kid on the way) I start my day even earlier," Holden told Business Insider.
Luke Holden
"Every good early morning includes exercise and I do my best to stay disciplined around this," he said. "Ordinarily I go to a small gym 10 minutes from my house, on the way to our Seafood Company. I love high intensity, high repetition weight lifting circuits. I am typically most clear-minded and least susceptible to stress when I can combine cardio and weight training."
At about 6:30 a.m., Holden eats breakfast, either at home or sometimes at Becky’s Diner, which is on the way to the Seafood Company.
Luke Holden
"I do my best to grab breakfast with others," Holden said. "Sometimes to catch up, and sometimes to make new introductions."
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Source: Business Insider – kwarren@businessinsider.com (Katie Warren)