We Don’t Just Grow Mushrooms,
We Grow What’s Possible.
Most suppliers repackage powders.
We cultivate innovation.
The Truth About The Industry
Most mushroom suppliers don’t grow anything. They source commodity powder, slap a spec sheet on it, and hope your QA team doesn’t ask hard questions.
We’re mycologists. We built our own strain bank, developed our own cultivation protocols, and spent 75+ years optimizing for one thing: compound concentration that holds up under scrutiny.
While others optimize for margins, we optimize for compounds.
That’s how we’ve already exceeded industry standardization benchmarks and why our customers stop shopping around.
Our Facility & Approach
From our 45,000 sq ft facility in Coldstream, British Columbia, we produce full-spectrum mushroom ingredients that give your formulations a genuine edge. Advanced cultivation and processing technologies deliver ultra-fine powders, fermented food bases, and complex polysaccharides.
The result is consistent, standardized ingredients your brand can scale with and stake its reputation on.
Innovation
Scalability
Reliability
Value
The Management Team
Riley Boudreau
CEO
After discovering the potential of full-spectrum mushrooms through his own experience, Riley set out to build the ingredient standard he couldn’t find anywhere else.
As CEO and Co-Founder of NuCelium, Riley is on a mission to make top-quality, affordable mushrooms the new industry standard. After discovering the potential of full-spectrum mushrooms through his own personal journey, he’s driven to help brands harness the ingredient and formulation potential that premium mushrooms make possible.
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A lifelong entrepreneur driven by purpose, Riley blends science, sustainability, and integrity in everything he builds. Before founding NuCelium, he led Stand With Nepal, rebuilding a remote village after the 2015 earthquake, and helped guide TechBrew Robotics (now 4AG Robotics) into mushroom-picking automation now used worldwide. He also serves as a Board Director at SASCU, deepening his focus on responsible growth and community impact.
Riley leads with curiosity, pragmatism, and a deep belief that doing good and doing well should always grow from the same roots.
Rob Swiderski
Co-Founder, Chief Revenue Officer
Rob Swiderski, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer at NuCelium, brings over 20 years of experience across wellness, hospitality, and functional food, with a proven record of building brands and driving commercialization. His career is fueled by a deeply personal calling: a premonition from God that inspired his mission to connect formulating brands with rigorously verified mushroom ingredients. This “why” continues to guide his work at NuCelium, where he leads the charge in bringing functional mushrooms to global markets with purpose and integrity.
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Rob’s entrepreneurial path began with Our World Network, a health and wellness company that launched Youth Juice, a pioneering antioxidant beverage made with berries and sea vegetables that gained national attention and helped shape Canada’s functional beverage movement (a key market for NuCelium). He later founded Craft Beer Market, now a nationally recognized hospitality brand with multiple successful locations.
At NuCelium, Rob combines entrepreneurial energy, product innovation, and a values-driven mission to help position the company as a global leader in premium mushroom ingredient supply.
David Kunz
COO
David’s an engineer with an artist’s eye—turning complex problems into elegant, scalable systems that keep NuCelium growing fast and flawless.
David Kunz, Chief Operating Officer at NuCelium, brings 25 years of experience in technical operations, project management, and business development across multiple industries. An engineer by profession and artist at heart, David’s superpower is creatively solving complex problems and developing efficient, scalable systems that deliver measurable results.
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At NuCelium, he leads operational strategy—optimizing production, supply chain, and processes to ensure rapid, quality-focused growth. His talent for simplifying workflows into repeatable systems is key to NuCelium’s ability to scale and serve global food ingredient and CPG brands.
Previously, David co-founded a boutique directional drilling firm, outperforming competitors through proprietary optimization software he developed years ahead of industry trends. He also founded SEENRG Corporation, consulting on geothermal energy projects, complex data analytics, and agri-tech. While Policy Director for Canada’s Geothermal Energy Association he founded CREATE Kitchen, a food-service business incubator to kick-start and enable local startups with commercial infrastructure and business development guidance.
David’s entrepreneurial track record and operational acumen are essential to NuCelium’s successful growth.
The Lab Team
Andrew Poulton
Co-Founder, R&D Manager
Hunts down elite strains other cultivators don’t know exist by digging through rare historical texts in their original languages to revive forgotten cultivation methods.
Andrew Poulton, Co-Founder and R&D Manager at NuCelium, brings over 25 years of expertise in mycology to the company’s growth strategy. He has isolated high-performing strains and refined their metabolic traits to align with NuCelium’s proprietary cultivation methods, giving the company a clear edge in quality, consistency, and scalability.
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With hands-on experience across fruiting-body, full-spectrum, and bioreactor cultivation, Andrew understands which approaches best serve specific production objectives — whether maximizing standardized compound concentration, increasing batch yield, or controlling costs. This breadth of knowledge translates directly into NuCelium’s ability to scale efficiently while maintaining exceptional quality.
Andrew also maintains a unique advantage: he actively engages with cutting-edge global research while drawing on an extensive personal library of rare and historical mushroom texts, many in their original languages.
This combination of modern science and rediscovered traditional methods gives NuCelium access to insights few others can claim—fueling innovation and competitive strength.
Evelyn Bailey
Production Manager
Scaled full-spectrum production at world-leading facilities. Knows exactly how to maintain quality whether it’s a 20 kg test batch or 2,000 kg commercial run.
Evelyn Bailey serves as Production Manager at NuCelium, where her expertise extends far beyond her title. Raised from the age of 14 in what was then a world-leading full-spectrum mushroom facility, Evelyn has spent over 15 years immersed in the science and systems that drive large-scale mushroom production.
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Working alongside mushroom growing engineers and mycologists, she developed both a deep technical foundation in mycology and a rare mastery of the complex production processes required to deliver consistent, high-quality results at scale.
Her passion for mushrooms stems from a lifelong curiosity about how the world works and a drive to solve difficult problems—mycology being one of the most intricate and rewarding challenges she has pursued.
This combination of hands-on experience and relentless curiosity allows Evelyn to guide NuCelium’s production team with confidence, avoiding common pitfalls and ensuring the company’s operations remain efficient, resilient, and capable of scaling globally.