Meet Chef
Nick Billegas

Co-Founder of Optimized Nutrition Chefs and acting Executive Chef, has over 12 years of experience working in both the culinary and sports industries, specializing in performance nutrition for professional athletes.

Nicholas Billegas brings over 12 years of experience across the culinary and sports industries, specializing in performance-focused culinary services for professional athletes.

Beginning his athletic journey at 17 while training alongside elite UFC fighters, Nicholas developed a unique understanding of high-performance environments. His culinary career includes training in authentic French cuisine, working as a sous chef in international cuisine, and providing private, in-house culinary services for elite athletes and high-profile clients.

As a certified Speed of Sport (SOS) affiliate trainer under Nick Curson, Nicholas combines his understanding of athletic performance with advanced culinary expertise to create highly personalized nutrition-focused culinary programs.

Today, Nicholas leads the Optimized Nutrition Chefs culinary team, delivering world-class private dining and performance-focused chef services for professional athletes and high-performance clients worldwide.

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Meet Tylor Whelan Director of
Health and Nutrition

Tylor Whelan brings nearly a decade of experience working with hundreds of professional athletes and high-performing clients across multiple sports and disciplines. As Director of Health & Nutrition, he oversees the development of personalized nutrition, supplementation and health-optimization strategies designed around each client's individual goals and demands.

With extensive education, certifications and mentorship under leading professionals in sports performance and nutrition, Tylor takes a comprehensive approach to performance, addressing nutrition, recovery, sleep, cognitive function, body composition, digestion and relevant health biomarkers.

Tylor also oversees and guides the Optimized Nutrition Chefs culinary team, ensuring each chef can accurately execute the client's individualized nutritional strategy while maintaining exceptional flavor, quality and presentation.

By integrating performance nutrition with expert culinary execution, Tylor helps create a seamless system that removes the guesswork from daily nutrition and allows clients to focus on performing at their highest level.

Our Mission

Exceptional Food. Personalized Performance. Completely Managed.

At Optimized Nutrition Chefs, our mission is to redefine the private chef experience for professional athletes, high-performing individuals, executives, entertainers and high-profile clients.

We believe nutrition should be more than simply eating healthy food. At the highest levels of performance, what you eat, how it is prepared, when it is consumed and how consistently it is executed can have a meaningful impact on performance, recovery, energy, body composition and overall quality of life.

Our role is to bring all of those pieces together.

We combine elite private chef services, performance-focused nutrition, health optimization and personalized culinary management to create a complete system built around the individual.

We Don't Just Provide a Chef.

We identify and place exceptional culinary professionals who are carefully matched to each client's lifestyle, preferences, schedule, nutritional requirements and expectations.

Our chefs are supported by our team and given the guidance necessary to execute each client's personalized nutritional strategy — from ingredient selection and meal composition to preparation, portions, timing and presentation.

The result is a private dining experience that delivers world-class food without compromising the client's nutritional and performance objectives.

A nutrition strategy is only valuable if it can be consistently implemented.

Our approach bridges the gap between performance nutrition and culinary execution.

We work around the client's training, competition, travel, work and lifestyle demands to create practical nutritional systems that can be executed every day.

Where appropriate, our services can also incorporate supplementation strategies, third-party testing and biomarker data to provide additional insight and help inform personalized health and performance decisions.

There is no universal approach to nutrition or performance.

Every client has different goals, preferences, schedules, training demands, dietary requirements and lifestyle considerations.

We take the time to understand the individual and build the service around them — whether that means a full-time residential chef, temporary training-camp support, fight-week nutrition, international travel, executive culinary services or a complete long-term performance nutrition program.

Our team has more than a decade of experience working within elite sports and has supported 500+ professional and high-level athletes across NFL, UFC/MMA, Boxing and other professional sports, as well as entertainers and high-performing individuals.

That experience has shaped our understanding of what high-level clients actually need:

Consistency. Discretion. Precision. Exceptional food and complete reliability.

We take the guesswork, inconvenience and daily stress out of nutrition.

Meet Chef Nick Billegas

Meet Tylor Whelan Director of Health and Nutrition