WHY ATTEND?
For the first time in history, across the globe people aged over 65 now outnumber children under five. Healthy aging is fast becoming a staple nutrition trend as demands for immunity, maintaining cognitive functions, vitality and strength, are increasingly in the spotlight. As maintaining body and mind becomes a growing concern for consumers across generations, we are redefining what it means to age healthily.
Introducing the Healthy Aging and Nutrition Summit. Join us in accelerating the uptake of preventative and proactive nutrition for healthy aging and gain a competitive advantage by being the first to learn about emerging opportunities. Where emerging start-ups, multinational leaders, manufacturers and suppliers meet together, challenges can be overcome, and opportunities taken full advantage of.
At the Healthy Aging and Nutrition Summit, expect to take away the latest research and developments in the key trends of healthy aging, including gut health, mobility and cognition. Gain insight into industry leaders’ corporate strategies and take away key techniques to expand your business into this space.
Three Pillars
Innovation Showcase
Selection Committee:
Our Innovation Showcase promises to highlight some of the most unique and innovative start-ups within healthy aging and nutrition.
Thank you to our 2022 Selection Committee and congratulations to our finalists!
Applications are now closed.
Investor X Start Up Breakfast
Connecting nutrition's most exciting start ups for healthy aging with some of the industry's most lucrative investors.
No need for pitches, create valuable relationships in a relaxed setting with Venture Capitalists and Impact Investors looking for companies like yours.
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Key Statistics
Attendee Breakdown
Thank you to our 2022 SPEAKERS
Eva Hurt
Peyton Rudy
A champion of wholistic wellbeing, Peyton is a Global Marketing Manager for Nutiani, wellbeing nutrition solutions from NZMP, the ingredients business of Fonterra. Peyton is known for generating and harnessing global consumer insights, industry networking and technical collaboration to identify key trends and messaging opportunities across the active living nutritional marketplace. Her diverse B2B and B2C marketing experience spans brand development, packaging design, concept development, new product launches and more, and she is intimately skilled in promoting consumer products, contract manufacturing services and specialty ingredients.
Previously she held various marketing roles at Agropur, a global dairy leader, and Superior Fresh, LLC, the world’s largest aquaponic farm.
Jacqueline Van Schaik
Jacqueline brings over 19 years’ experience in the global food and beverage industry along with a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and a minor in Marketing and Consumer Science from Wageningen University. As a global lead nutritionist she is currently she is responsible for providing nutritional knowledge and oversight, as well as supporting the research and development of innovative nutritional solutions that meet consumer needs in the health, wellbeing, and medical space at Fonterra.
Jason Stamm
Max Von Poelnitz
Maximilian is an entrepreneur, investor, and start up advisor. As an Investment Director at DSM Venturing, the corporate venture capital arm of Royal DSM, he leads the west coast hub and invests in US based start ups in food tech, bio tech, women’s health, and personalized nutrition. Prior to DSM, Maximilian founded a venture capital firm called New Territory Ventures focused on supply chain tech and alternative protein investments. He built his first company in 2011 following a business school degree at INSEAD. His third start up was funded by Alibaba in China and Delivery Hero, a German Publicly traded Institutional investor; the start up was sold to a Chinese conglomerate in 2020.
Maximilian is passionate about food tech and B2B start up innovation and has been featured on CNN, CNBC and Forbes as an entrepreneur turned venture capitalist.
Joseph Antoun
Dr. Joseph Antoun’s passion is to enhance human healthy longevity. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of L-Nutra, a unique Nutrition technology company leading the Food as Medicine movement and developing breakthrough nutri-technologies that profoundly impact how we age and prevent or better manage health conditions.
Before taking on these roles, Dr. Antoun was the CEO of Health Systems Reform, a boutique consultancy aimed at elevating public health through reforming health systems, strengthening healthcare management and improving healthcare delivery; the Co-Director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of Chicago; an adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging; and a fellow at the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Antoun founded and served as the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Health Systems and Reform. He served as the Chairman of the Board at the Global Healthspan Policy Institute (GHPI), as member of Forbes Business Development and as head of Business Development for Emerging Markets at Eli Lilly & Company.
Dr. Antoun has dedicated his professional experience to reforming health systems towards preventive care, to create a market for healthy aging by launching the first healthy aging product called ProLon, and to bringing back fasting as a longevity lifestyle to humanity. In 2016, Dr. Antoun's launched the Fasting Market, which by 2018, became the #1 nutrition regimen in the US, and continues to grow in popularity.
Dr. Antoun completed his Health Policy studies at Harvard University, Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, Medicine and Biological Sciences at Saint Joseph University, and his PhD studies in Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Studies at King's College. He is married to the loveliest Carine, has three amazing boys and stays healthy by practicing fasting with food and walking daily while on his phone.
Nathan Price
Brad Helfand
Melissa Snover
Melissa Snover is an award-winning entrepreneur and visionary in the world of food technology and additive manufacturing. She is passionate about developing innovations which offer solutions to her customers, challenge her competitors, and disrupt current market offerings. She is currently the founder and CEO of Rem3dy Health which pioneers personalised solutions across preventative and curative health under the brands Nourished (Personalised Nutrition) and Scripted (Personalised Medicine).
Tom Mastrobuoni
Tom is the Chief Investment Officer for Big Idea Ventures (“BIV”), a New York and Singapore-based venture capital firm. BIV currently operates the New Protein Fund making seed stage investments in alternative protein companies and Generation Food Rural Partners which partners with US universities to commercialize intellectual property in the areas of food, protein and agriculture.
Prior to joining BIV, Tom was a Founding Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Tyson Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Tyson Foods. While at Tyson, Tom led investments in Beyond Meat, Clear Labs, FoodLogiQ, Future Meat Technologies, Memphis Meats, MycoTechnology, New Wave Foods, Tovala and BIV’s New Protein Fund.
Prior to Tyson Foods, Tom held senior leadership positions at a number of New York-based private equity funds, including Advance Venture Partners, RedBird Capital Partners and Palladium Equity Partners. Tom has over 20 years of experience in alternative asset management and finance.
Tom began his career in public accounting and received a BS in Accountancy from Villanova University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (NY) and holds the Chartered Global Management Accountant designation from the AICPA. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their four children.
Dan Altschuler Malek
Dan Altschuler Malek is a Managing Partner at Unovis Asset Management, a global impact investment firm providing early-stage funding to entrepreneurs developing plant-based and cultured meat alternatives to foods derived from conventional animal agriculture including beef, chicken, pork, dairy, egg, fish, and shellfish products. The Unovis team has invested in more than 50 companies including Beyond Meats, Upside Foods, BlueNalu, Geltor, and Aleph Farms. As Managing Partner, Dan heads the firm's activities in North America and Israel, exploring deal- flow, creating strategic opportunities, and working with founders to solve daily challenges and evaluate strategic decisions.
Dan is passionate about food, startups, and sustainability and prior to joining Unovis his endeavors included launching a snack company, heading a logistics firm, opening a restaurant, and managing a creative agency. He received his BA from Mexico’s Universidad Iberoamericana and an MBA from Babson College. In addition to his other work, Dan serves as a mentor at 500 Startups and is a board member of Zero Egg, Alpha Foods, Nova Meat, and Black Sheep Foods.
Nicholas Reichenbach
Mr. Reichenbach is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with a robust track record over the last 25 years, founding, investing, and building multiple businesses in the consumer goods (Flow, SimplyProtein), social media (Rabbit), internet/mobile technology (Magmic Games, Bplay), entertainment and hospitality space (GuestDriven).
Mr. Reichenbach’s latest venture, where he holds the role of Founder, CEO and Chairman is Flow Beverage Corp. Flow is a sustainably packaged, alkaline spring water built on the power of mindful positivity. Flow holds a B-Corp certification and has partnered with Tetra Pak to disrupt the water category and build a brand that aligns with consumer values for sustainability, quality, health and wellness.
Ari Tulla
Ari Tulla is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur and the co-founder & CEO of the smart nutrition service, Elo, whose mission is to transform food from the leading cause of disease to medicine. Ari is also an active angel investor and advisor with a portfolio of 40 startups, including Virta Health, Good Eggs, and Ōura.
Previously, Ari was the CEO of Quest Analytics, the market leader in doctor data and network management. Ari led the company through a pivotal growth stage from $15M to $40M in revenue. Before joining Quest Analytics, Ari was co-founder and CEO of BetterDoctor, a doctor search engine.
BetterDoctor raised $30M from first-tier investors, including NEA and Uncork Capital. In June 2018, BetterDoctor was acquired by private equity firm Vestar Capital. Before BetterDoctor, Ari led Nokia’s game and application studios.
When not working or co-parenting his two young children with his wife, Ari spends his time on the steep cliffs, powdery slopes, and big cold waves that only Northern California can offer.
Michael Fredericson
Dr. Fredericson is Professor and Director of PM&R Sports Medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford University. He is Founder of the Stanford Lifestyle Medicine Program and Co-Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.
Dr. Fredericson has been a featured speaker at numerous national and international sports medicine and rehabilitation symposiums. In addition, he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 38 book chapters, and four books focused on an improved understanding of athletic injuries. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Physician and Sports Medicine, former Associate Editor for the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Senior Founding Editor for the PM&R Journal and the Board of Trustees for the Association of Academic Physiatristsl. He is also on the Scientific Advisory Board and a frequent contributor to Runner's World and Men's Health magazines.
Dr. Fredericson is Founding Program Director for the Stanford Non-Operative Sports Medicine Fellowship and has received various awards for his efforts to develop and foster musculoskeletal education and research for medical students, residents, fellows, and post-doctoral scholars.
Shelley Balanko
Grant Antoine
Dr. Grant Antoine is a naturopathic doctor passionate about patient empowerment and education.
He brings this passion to Viome where he believes the marriage of technology, systems biology, and the human microbiome provides individuals with an unprecedented resource of practical and actionable health insights.
The accessibility of the Viome platform also provides the means to impact the health of many more individuals than could ever be possible through traditional, clinical practice.
At Viome Dr Antoine is involved in clinical trial design and the development of nutritional and supplement interventions for Viome’s user recommendations and efficacy studies.
Dr Antoine holds a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Texas at Dallas and later attended Bastyr University of California where he earned his Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree. He attended naturopathic residency at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute at the University of California, Irvine where his training focused on integrative primary care.
Valerie Christy
Sunny Jain
With over 20 years of Molecular and Microbiology experience, Sun Genomics’ founder and CEO Sunny Jain originally had the idea for Floré after struggling to solve his own young son’s gut health issues with generic probiotics from the shelves. Sunny took it upon himself to create a custom probiotic that worked for his son, and now aims to do the same for the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from gut health issues worldwide.
Before starting Sun Genomics, Sunny worked at Illumina for seven years. He was part of the team to establish the Illumina Clinical Services Laboratory and went on to sequence the first whole human genome in a CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited laboratory. Prior to Illumina, Sunny worked for Labcorp in the molecular oncology laboratory and has over 20 years of experience in commercializing biomarkers.
Ali Mostashari
Ali Mostashari, Ph.D. (MIT) is a co-founder of LifeNome (https://www.lifenome.com), a Precision (biology-personalized) Nutrition and Health AI company headquartered in New York City. He is in the top 20 cited scholars in the world in complexity science. Concurrently he serves as a Member of the Global Futures Council of the World Economic Forum. LifeNome leverages biological, physiological, and behavioral data to hyper-personalize needs assessments and health and wellness interventions in the preventative health, nutrition, fitness, insurance and personal care/beauty industries.
Barb Stuckey
Barb has been at Mattson since 1997 and is currently Chief Innovation &
Marketing Officer at North America’s most successful independent developer of
foods and beverages for the retail food and chain restaurant industries. Barb is
known as a taste, food trend, innovation, consumer insights, and product
development expert.
As part of Barb’s role in the innovation projects that make up her daily job, she is
required to taste food and figure out how to make it better. After more than 2
decades doing this, she’s honed her tasting skills and ability to help others make
food taste better. She shared this insight with the world in 2012 when her book
Taste What You’re Missing was published. In 2013, the paperback edition was
released (under the simplified title Taste).
Barb was instrumental in helping The San Francisco Cooking School integrate
the science of taste into their curriculum. She now teaches the Fundamentals of
Taste to each entering class. Barb is also a contributor to Forbes.com where she
writes about the food industry.
Barb lives with her hypertaster husband, two artisan cats, and splits her time
between San Francisco and Healdsburg, in the heart of Sonona wine country.
Neil Foster
Neil has 20 years of experience across a wide range of commercial functions in the food, nutrition, and consumer health industries.
Douglas Lynch
Nicole Scott
Mike Sandoval
Mike has a MS in pharmaceutical sciences from University of Texas at Austin with 14+ years in drug development funding, execution and portfolio strategies. Mike served as President and CEO of XEO Pharmaceuticals, a Contract Research Organization (CRO) helping drug startups and 503A pharmacies support early stage R&D and IND-enabling analytical programs. At Xeris Pharma (NASDAQ (XERS)) Mike led R&D operations & development of novel injectable drug products. He’s named inventor on several drug delivery patents and published 10+ scientific papers. He is co-inventor of Disruption Labs’ lipid encapsulation technologies and leads commercial application at Santé Labs by managing tech transfer and commercial scale manufacturing.
Lindsay McCorcle
John Eid
Emily Stein
Emily Stein, PhD. Founded Primal Health, LLC in 2017 to focus on improving the dental health of both humans and animals by producing oral microbiome modulation products. She has spent 12 years developing SMMRT technology at Primal Therapies, Inc., which is focused on using metabolic influences to re-engineer disease-causing bacterial biofilms into those that are health-promoting, to decrease inflammation and to improve outcomes. Prior to that, she spent 7 years as a research fellow at Stanford University in Rheumatology and Immunology focused on the neuro-endocrine-immune axis in autoimmune and chronic inflammatory diseases. She holds a Phd. in Microbiology from the University of California at Berkeley where she studied inter- and intra-cellular signalling pathways involved in stress response and community development in bacteria and received her B.S. in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Iowa where she studied the interaction between M. tuberculosis and innate immune cells
Tarini Shrikhande
Jared Stanley
The passing of the 2018 Farm Bill allowed struggling American farmers to access a valuable cash crop for the first time in 80+ years—since its prohibition—and removed it from the list of DEA controlled substances: all mighty hemp.
At the center of the great rebirth of the American hemp industry is a brilliant albeit unassuming operations guy overseeing a group of some of the country’s most talented hemp farmers, scientists, and engineers. He is a driving force behind world’s most successful hemp CBD brand.
Jared Stanley is Chief Operating Officer of Charlotte’s Web, the company founded by Jared and his six brothers. The Stanley brothers started the pioneering hemp genetics company with a $30K loan and now, Charlotte’s Web is a publicly traded company.
As experts are looking at hemp to transform our everyday, Jared is paving the way for agricultural innovation in a health and wellness hemp movement that has the potential to change life as we know it. As a result of the 2014 hemp pilot program, Jared planted the first US hemp crop circle since prohibition, and just a few short years later scaled Charlotte’s Web operations to production levels that have exceeded the entire US import market.
As some have noted, Jared is the single most valuable operator in the hemp and cannabis industry. He's a self-taught, boot-strap entrepreneur who saw an opportunity to use the land to earn a living—and in the process give back to those in need, and the environment. It's Jared's inventiveness, entrepreneurial spirit and vision for a different tomorrow that created an entire industry.
As COO, Jared oversees product innovation, R&D and Quality, which is a hallmark of the brand known for pioneering and establishing the entire CBD market.
Jared’s processes have helped to inject approximately $12 million into Charlotte’s Web family farm partnerships in Kentucky and Oregon as well as supporting $3M in jobs in Eastern Colorado in 2018. Jared hopes the US will focus on hemp as a major crop because it’s environmentally friendly and has countless uses. The processes he’s created have the potential to shape our landscape over the next decades.
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NutianiTM
Website: https://www.nutiani.com/nz/en.html
NutianiTM is a new wellbeing nutrition brand, brought to you by NZMP to accelerate brands’ innovation pipelines.
We offer end-to-end solutions through a combination of high performing, science-backed specialty ingredients, tested- concepts and expert services grounded in the science of the human body, to help consumers and patients to live a longer, more fulfilling, healthier life.
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Open Book Extracts
Website: https://openbookextracts.com/
Headquartered in Roxboro, N.C., Open Book Extracts is an NSF cGMP-certified manufacturer of premium cannabinoid products, aiming to be the industry’s true north by delivering premium products, exceptional service, and industry-leading transparency. With control of the entire supply chain, a state-of-the-art extraction and manufacturing campus near North Carolina’s Research Triangle, proprietary refinement and conversion methods backed by a growing IP portfolio, and a team of PhD chemists and seasoned business leaders, OBX is the trusted partner for global brands seeking to enter the marketplace. OBX offers concept-to-market formulation and manufacturing services, leveraging a broad portfolio of cannabinoid ingredients, leading water soluble technology and unique delivery mechanisms to help its clients bring to market a wide range of finished goods, from core softgels, capsules, and gummies, to orally dissolving tablets, tongue strips, and aerosol sprays.
Santé Laboratories
Website: https://santelabs.com/
Santé Laboratories is a specialty contract development manufacturing organization in Austin, TX with 28+ global pending & granted patents on drug delivery technologies that solve solubility, stability, sensory, and bioavailability challenges to fuel "better for you" product renovation and innovation for dietary supplements, functional foods, and functional beverages. As a multi-strategy partner with diverse capabilities, Santé Labs offers custom R&D formulation supported by its internationally accredited ISO/IEC analytical lab for speed to market and the affordable manufacturing of bulk liquid or powder encapsulated ingredients. Santé Labs works with multinational brands, large cap ingredient suppliers, and sophisticated CMOs to unlock innovation for end-use applications today's consumers demand like beverages, gummies, snacks, on-the-go solutions, and more to capture new market share, innovate product verticals, solubilize unmanageable doses, power underutilized ingredients, and feature ingredients that historically weren't an option.
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ZERO GRAVITY SKIN was founded with one goal in mind; to develop and deliver the safest and most effective pain management and anti-aging Medical devices to consumers across the globe.
Zero Gravity is committed to produce the most effective LED (Light Emitting Diodes) light therapy for chronic pain and facial skin rejuvenation in the industry.
The sophisticated technology behind InfraRed Light Therapy is supported by many leading board
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Zero Gravity devices are FDA-Cleared Class 11 medical devices.
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