Doug Burke

Stanford University Burke attended Stanford University, where he majored in Economics and played water polo under Stanford Head Coach Art Lambert. While playing for Coach Lambert, Burke helped lead Stanford to NCAA national championships in water polo in both 1976, defeating UCLA, and in 1978 defeating the University of California. He was Captain of Stanford's team in 1978, and was a recipient of All American honors from the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1976, 1977, and 1978. He earned Most Valuable Player honors from both the NCAA and the Pacific Conference-10 in 1978. In the off season, Burke competed with the Stanford area's Stanford Water Polo Club. The teams from Yugoslavia, Italy, the Soviet Union, Hungary and Spain were the pre-Olympic favorites to medal in water polo. Responding to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the teams from Hungary and Russia did not attend in 1984. The U.S. and Yugoslavia won their first three matches, and met in the final game to determine who would take the gold and silver medals. Going into the third quarter of play, the U.S. team held a late 5–2 advantage over Yugoslavia, but were unable to make another goal, and Yugoslavia tied the score 5–5 with three unanswered goals, winning due having scored more total goals in Olympic play. Yugoslavia took the gold, West Germany the Bronze and Spain placed fourth.

Professions In professional pursuits, around 1984 he and his wife Candy Costie formed Integrated Bakery Resources (IBR) in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a company that performed research on baking bread. Working over two decades in the business of baking, he started Innovative Cereal Systems (ICS) around 1985, a bread enzyme research company that performed research on enzymes, and serviced commercial bakeries. In 2005, Associated British Foods purchased his company Innovative Cereal Systems, and Cargil, a larger company with greater financial resources, and geographic scope, purchased his company Integrated Bakery Resources, which would eventually produce and market a range of baking related products including bread, bagel, and English Muffin mixes. He stayed as an executive with Cargill for around four years, then formed Whiteboard team, a consulting company.