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Geoffrey Zakarian Geoffrey Zakarian Geoffrey Zakarian (born July 25, 1959) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City and Miami. He is featured on several television programs on the Food Network, including "Chopped" and in 2011, "The Next Iron Chef", where he won the right to join "Iron Chef America". Zakarian was born 1959 in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian-American father, musician George Zakarian, and a Polish-American mother, Viola ("née" Hekowicz). He has a sister, Virginia, and brother, George. He graduated from Burncoat High School in 1977.