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ALBERTO VOLKERS
Alberto Volkers is a Mexican born 3rd of May 1962. Judo competitor, chef, writer, owner of Fusiones.se and co-founder of Les Rochesian. Alberto studied in Mexican Colegio Madrid and IMEB and later graduated from Ecole des Roches Hotel and Tourism school in Switzerland. Son of Albert Volkers and Gabriela Gaussmann and brother to Georgina and Jacqueline Volkers and married with Milagros Hernandez. Alberto worked as F&B Manager at Real de Minas in San Luis Potosi and Queretaro in Mexico and later on became Head Waiter at Royal Viking Line before moving to Sweden where he worked as Chef de Partie at Grand Hotel in Stockholm. Some years later he accepted the possition of Chef at restaurant Oscar in Sundsvall. Between 1991 and 1993 he helped his father Albert open the first Dutch restaurant in Mexico "La Croqueta" 1993 while waiting for his work permit in Sweden he travelled to London where he was accepted to practice at Aubergine runed by the young Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing. Alberto opened his first restaurant Cactus 1993 which became a popular gourmet resturant with mexican influence until 2001 when he moved for one and a half year to Holland to work as a chef at the Swedish Embassy with ambassador Björn Skala and his wife Margareta Skala who had just arrived to The Hague from Austria. Alberto moved back to Sweden where he has his son Alexander and wife Milagros. Alberto has trained and coached Judo since the age of 6 with mexican champions like Gerardo Padilla, Eduardo Serna, Hugo Vilchis, Carlos Huttich and other great mexicans. He was one of the coaches for Judo Sundsvall with head coach Wolfgang Biedron. As a veteran he took silver at the Nordic Championships in Copenhagen 2008. He now trains at Borås Judo Club with head coach Gabriel Bengtsson and is also a Swedish National Referee. Alberto is now working as a Hotel and Tourism teacher and planning to get his masters degree in pedagogics at Göteborgs Universitet.