This year, Thomas Cuisine’s Executive Chef Derone Martin in service at 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.
Derone has been the Executive Chef at Parkway Place for ten years, and his servant leadership stands out to all who work with him.
Executive Director Abraham Matthew of Buckner’s Parkway Place shares, “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.”
Chef Derone says of his honor, “To be nominated by the great people I work with, it means a lot. It means a lot how they think of me as a leader, someone they can come to, and someone to look up to. Parkway Place’s leadership over the years as an amazing group of people, and I’m just really, really lucky.”
Lynn Daily, the Vice President of Operations of Thomas Cuisine, adds, “Derone is an inspiration and has continued to lead at Parkway Place while embracing Thomas Cuisine and his career with us.” Thank you Chef Derone for your exceptional dedication to your residents, teams, leadership, and culinary excellence within the senior dining industry and Parkway Place.
To learn more about Chef Derone’s positive impact on his community, please watch the video below.
About LeadingAge Texas
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 senior living service providers. In Texas, LeadingAge holds an annual networking and awards event, in which Chef 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.
