Julius Walls Jr., President and CEO, brings his vast expertise and years of experience to Greyston Bakery, a $6.5 million for-profit enterprise owned by the non-profit Greyston Foundation that has been producing brownies cakes and tarts since 1982. Mr. Walls is also an adjunct professor at the business graduate schools of Stern at NYU and Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle teaching social enterprise and Social Justice & Business respectively and the co-author of MISSION, INC., The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise, shipping December 2008. Mr. Walls serves as an invited participant in the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Executive Session on Transforming Cities through Civic Entrepreneurs at Harvard University for 2008/2009.

Walls' major responsibilities include leading the fiscal growth of the Bakery while maintaining its daily commitment to high-quality gourmet products. Additionally, he ensures the Bakery's social mission and core values by establishing a supportive work environment and synergy with the Foundation's fundamental goals of assisting people in need through employment, education, housing and healthcare. He encourages the Greyston Bakery staff through the company's positive energy and constructive atmosphere.

Walls' ascent to President and CEO has coincided the business growth and increased notoriety of the Bakery. He started with Greyston Bakery as a volunteer to bring its cookies to the White House in 1993. By 1995, he joined the $2.5 million Greyston Bakery as a consultant in the role of Director of Marketing and then in early 1997, he was asked to join the Bakery as Director of Operations. Later that year Walls was appointed CEO of the Bakery, in addition to the position of Vice-President in 2000 and eventually Senior Vice President at the Greyston Foundation in 2003.

Prior to his post at Greyston, he founded his own chocolate company, Sweet Roots, Inc., which was marketed as the only chocolate bar manufactured using exclusively African cocoa, produced by an African-American and sold primarily in the African-American community for fundraising by schools and other organizations. Before Sweet Roots, Inc, he worked for a chocolate manufacturing company and at age 26 was appointed to the position of Vice President of Operations. Walls began his career at a mid-size CPA firm.

Core ingredients in Walls' life and career are his spiritual practice, family, and service. Mr. Walls serves on many boards, including the Corporate Leadership Advisory Council of U.S. Chamber of Commerce, as the Chair of the Workforce Investment Board in Yonkers and as a board member on the Social Enterprise Alliance (national membership organization of non-profits that operate businesses), KaBoom, a national non-profit, NYS Empire Zone-Yonkers, and Yonkers Chambers of Commerce. In addition, Walls is a minister/preacher at the Greater Centennial AME Zion Church. Walls has spoken extensively throughout the country on the topics of Social Ventures and Social Purpose Businesses, Spirituality in the Workplace, and Business Development in the Inner City.

Born in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York, Walls attended high school and college seminary before deciding to pursue a career in business. He studied business at Baruch College and completed his bachelors degree at Concordia College. He currently resides in Yonkers with his wife Cheryl and three children.