FoodNiche Summit

Anabelle Broadbent, PhD.

Dr. Anabelle Broadbent, Founder and Chief Science Officer at Verde Operations (Verde Ops), is an internationally recognized NASA-trained pathogenic microbiologist, food scientist, nutrition scientist, biochemist, food safety and indoor controlled environment agriculture (CEA) expert with over 35 years of experience working in government (NASA & USDA), academia and private industry. She holds the distinction of […]

Eric Beringause

Eric has over forty years of experience in the Food, Beverage, and Packaging industries. He is currently CEO of Winland Foods, Inc., an Investindustrial portfolio company. He has held CEO or leadership positions at Dean Foods, Alcoa, Nestle, Gehl Foods, Prima Wawona, Treehouse Foods, and Advanced Refreshments. He has broad experience turning around both domestic […]

Kate MacKenzie

Kate MacKenzie is the Executive Director of New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Food Policy (MOFP). In that capacity, she advises the Mayor on all issues related to food policy and the City’s food system. Under Mayor Adams, Kate leads the City’s Good Food Purchasing commitments, focused on increasing access to healthy, sustainable foods for […]

Meghan McIlroy

Meghan Mcilroy is Director in North America Disruptive R&D at Kraft Heinz, a trusted food producer of a wide ranging food and beverage portfolio, based in Glenview, IL. She is responsible for delivering on Environmental and Social Governance commitments on nutrition, sourcing, and net zero efforts. She also oversees US Export R&D and R&D Knowledge […]

Kevin McCurdy

Kevin E. McCurdy is the Global CPG Partner Segment Leader for Amazon responsible for identifying and engaging relationships with strategic ISV and SI Partners for the Amazon Global CPG Vertical. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Demand Signal Management at E2open, Inc. He was Co-Founder and Vice President of Sales for Orchestro, Inc. which was acquired […]

Duncan Aust, PhD.

Duncan Aust is Chief Technology Officer of AgroFresh. Aust has been in this role since August 2021 and focuses on AgroFresh’s research and development as well as regulatory and external innovation. Prior to joining AgroFresh, he was Vice President and Senior Vice President of Research and Development for DFB Pharmaceuticals, Coria Laboratories and Healthpoint as […]

Julia Olayanju, PhD.

Dr. Julia Olayanju is the Founder and President at FoodNiche. An internationally recognized thought leader, she drives conversation towards a healthier food system through her contributions on Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, and as the host of the FoodNiche Changemakers Podcast. Julia is a nutrigenomics expert and highly-regarded college-level educator. She completed her Ph.D. degree in […]

Tim McCollum

Tim McCollum never set out to redesign the global chocolate industry. He grew up playing sports, avoiding homework, and roaming the woods of a small town in New Jersey.      After graduating from Denison University, Tim signed up for the Peace Corps. Two years in Madagascar provided amazing sunsets, seafood, and a window into a small […]

Alon Chen

Alon is CEO and co-founder of Tastewise, the AI-driven data platform the food and beverage industry’s leading brands use to innovate quickly, market effectively, and grow sales. Alon was a senior Google executive, and has a wealth of experience in leveraging AI and big data across technology, business and marketing. Alon initiated and launched the […]