Meet the Team

Cason Crane

Cason Crane

Founder & CEO

Cason founded Explorer Cold Brew in 2020 with a mission to make great coffee work for every kind of coffee drinker. A Princeton graduate and former Bain consultant, Cason is also an accomplished endurance athlete and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to climb the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest. He brings that same spirit of exploration, resilience, and ambition to building Explorer.

Matt Adams

Matt Adams

COO

Matt is a longtime coffee entrepreneur. In 2013, Matt co-founded Backyard Beans Coffee Co., growing the business from roasting coffee on a Weber grill to a vertically integrated specialty coffee company with retail, wholesale, roasting, and production operations. At Explorer, Matt brings more than a decade of hands-on coffee expertise, with a particular focus on operations, production, sourcing, and building a more scalable coffee business.