Pauline Lam

Pauline Lam Executive Chef

Bay Area Chef, Pauline has spent most of her career as a Pastry Chef with the background to prove it. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the Bay Area she attended the Le Cordon Bleu in London. She learned from greats like Sherry Yard at Spago in Beverly Hills and Thomas Keller at the Bouchon Bakery and was Pastry Chef at Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Palo Alto.

Pauline began her career with Compass Group as the Executive Pastry Chef at Google and expanded that program for nearly a decade before making the move to savory as Chef de Cuisine of Root Cafe at Google. Since her time at Google, she has taken on the roles of Executive Pastry Chef for the Grand Hyatt Kauai, general manager of Kauai Kookie, as well as running Malolo, her own underground popup dinners and catering company in Kaua. Pauline can now be found at SJSU as the Campus Executive Chef where she oversees all the daily operations for the multiple lines of business on campus.