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Thomas Cuisine Chef Receives Excellence in Leadership Award from LeadingAge Texas

Thomas Cuisine Executive Chef Derone Martin Leads with Confidence in Senior Dining

This year, Thomas Cuisine’s Executive Chef Derone Martin in service Buckner Parkway Place, was recognized for the 2022 Excellence in Leadership award during the LeadingAge Texas Award Ceremony. Derone was honored by LeadingAge Texas for his exceptional dedication to enhancing the field of aging services through dedicated and impactful leadership, innovative dining programs, and outstanding support for aging Texans. Executive Director Abraham Matthew of Buckner’s Parkway Place says, “…his exceptional dedication and commitment sets him aside from everybody else….He’s somebody that I can count on; a guy with exceptional dedication and he leads his team that way every single day.”

Derone has been the Executive Chef at Parkway Place for ten years. Lynn Daily, the Vice President of Operations of Thomas Cuisine, says that Derone is an inspiration and has continued to lead at Parkway Place while embracing Thomas Cuisine and his career with us.

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LeadingAge Texas is a senior living industry resource offering up-to-date information, advocacy, education, representation, group services, and networking to those of us who support and participate as aging service providers. In Texas, LeadingAge holds an annual networking and awards event, in which Derone was honored alongside a number of industry leading individuals and companies who are taking to heart the importance of aging communities across Texas and the United States. Thank you, Derone for your exceptional dedication to your residents, teams, leadership, and culinary excellence within the senior dining industry and Parkway Place.