Nordahl Brue
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Nordahl Brue is a lawyer and entrepreneur best known as a founder of Bruegger's Bagels.
Nordahl Brue was educated at Grinnell College (B.A.) and Washington University in St. Louis (J.D.). In 1983, Brue and Mike Dressell opened the first Bruegger's Bagels in Troy, New York. Today, Bruegger's runs approximately 250 bakery-cafes in seventeen states. Brue also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Grinnell College, chair of PKC Corporation and Franklin Foods, and as a member of the board of the Green Mountain Power Corporation. He is a member of the Vermont State Governor's Council of Economic Advisors.