Brent Ridge Biography
Brent Ridge is a physician, business owner, and reality television star from the United States. He previously worked for Martha Stewart Omnimedia as the Vice President of Healthy Living.
How old is Brent Ridge? – Age
He is 48–49 years old as of 2022. He was born in 1973/1974 in Randleman, NC.
Brent Ridge Education
He earned a B.S. in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was accepted as part of the Early Acceptance Program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He received fellowships to study socialized medicine in England during medical school, as well as a grant from the American Federation of Aging Research to work on the New England Centenarian Project at Harvard University. Following medical school, he completed an internal medicine residency at Columbia University and a geriatric medicine fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Brent Ridge Partner
Ridge met his husband, Josh Kilmer-Purcell, on a website in 2000. Ridge had never dated anyone before Josh. They got married in December of 2011. The couple tied the knot on June 28, 2013.
Brent Ridge Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $950,000.
Brent Ridge Weight Loss
He discovered Valhalla Wellness with Dr. Yamane and has since lost about 50 pounds, his cholesterol has dropped from 240 to 170, his triglyceride has dropped from 300 to 107, and his HDL has increased to 43.
Brent Ridge Beekman
Ridge moved to a weekend home he had bought in Sharon Springs, New York, after losing his job at MSO during the 2008 recession, and he started Beekman 1802, a lifestyle business focused on seasonal living. The company makes a wide variety of goods in the gardening, gourmet food, beauty, and home décor industries. Retailers like Anthropologie, Henri Bendel, Williams Sonoma, John Derian, ABC Carpet, Home, and others have done business with them.
One of the American lifestyle brands with the fastest growth rate, according to NASDAQ, is Beekman 1802. The Fabulous Beekman Boys, a docuseries that aired for two seasons on Discovery Communication’s Planet Green channel, featured footage of the company’s founding. When that channel folded, Scripps purchased the show, which can now be seen on The Cooking Channel.
The original Beekman 1802 Mercantile on Main Street in Sharon Springs, NY, is still open for business, and Ridge is frequently seen there when he is not traveling. Sterling Epicure published The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook in 2011. Ridge and Josh later inked a multi-book deal with Rodale. In September 2013, Beekman 1802 Heirloom Desserts was released.
Brent Ridge Academia
Ridge agreed to work as an adjunct professor at the State University of New York at Cobleskill in the spring of 2014. In the School of Business, he teaches marketing.