Personalized Nutrition Innovation Summit 2021

Noosheen Hashemi

Noosheen Hashemi is a tech veteran, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of January AI, a precision health tech company that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to predict, prevent, postpone and manage chronic disease. In June 2021 the World Economic Forum honored January AI as a Technology Pioneer. Noosheen also guides a family office that includes diverse investments in over 100 companies and venture capital funds. She is the founder of the HAND Foundation, focused on supporting scholars and organizations that promote discourse and socioeconomic growth among the disenfranchised. She lives in Silicon Valley.

Susan Bratton

Nathan Price

Olivier Ballevre

Olivier Ballèvre. DVM, PhD.

R&D Program lead, Nestle Research. More than 30 years’ experience in Animal and Human Nutrition Research and Development in academia and industry with a track records of scientific publications, patents and innovative products. Have lead different Nestle R&D organizations driving innovation in Dairy, Infant Nutrition and Petcare products categories both in Europe and in China. Currently in charge of managing for Nestle a global R&D program on Personalized Nutrition for all Nestle product categories.

Kara Collier

Kara Collier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician with a background in clinical nutrition, nutrition technology, and entrepreneurship. After becoming frustrated with the traditional healthcare system, she helped start the company NutriSense where she is now the Director of Nutrition. Kara is the leading authority on the use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology, particularly in non-diabetics for the purposes of health optimization, disease prevention, and reversing metabolic dysfunction. Kara oversees the health team and product development and has personally interpreted thousands of complex glucose datasets.

Ranjan Sinha

Philipp Schulte

Philipp has spent the past 15 years working across the Life Sciences where he got a first-row view on the changing paradigms and new technologies that will turn the 21st century into the age of biology. He is currently CEO of Baze (a Nature's Way company) which he co-founded in 2014 with the mission to pioneer convenient and effective personalized nutrition.

Justine Horne

Kristofer Cook

Kristofer is a serial entrepreneur who, over the past 15 years, has co-founded six biotechnology companies in the areas of clean technology, food-technology and life science. In addition to holding multiple board positions in several private and public companies, Kristofer is currently CEO of Carbiotix, an award-winning biotechnology company pioneering microbiome healthcare through a portfolio of microbiome modulators covering prebiotic ingredients, medical foods and therapeutics, along-side a range of cost-effective gut health testing services. Kristofer holds a MSc. degree from Lund University, Sweden, and a M.B.A. degree from Solvay Business School, Belgium.

Matt Schueller

Matt Schueller is Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer for Nature’s Way. Matt started with the company in Green Bay in 1993 and has served in a multitude of roles including Sales, Marketing, Scientific Affairs, Product Development, Business Development and Strategy. His current responsibilities include strategic planning, innovation and business development.

He earned two Bachelor of Science degrees, one in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and one in Nutritional Science from the University of Wisconsin- Green Bay.  He received his Masters in Business Administration at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Eleonore Lafonta

Eléonore is a Senior Analyst at Five Seasons Ventures.

Prior to joining Five Seasons Ventures, Eléonore was a VC at Heartcore Capital, a consumer-focused early stage fund in Europe. Eléonore started her career in Investment Banking at DC Advisory but rapidly discovered VC was her true passion working as a junior analyst for Idinvest.

Eléonore holds a Master’s degree in Management from ESCP Europe and a degree in cooking.

As a matter of fact, when not meeting entrepreneurs, Eléonore loves cooking… Though it’s not always a success !

Markus Okumus

Amelia Jarman

Kari Thorstensen

Daniel Tal Mor

Daniel Tal Mor is a seasoned entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO of Lumen, a company developing consumer nutrition management platform, based on a small device that measures metabolism in a single breath and provides personalized food, lifestyle, and health recommendations.

Lumen was founded in 2014, and the company spent 4 years on research and development to create a product that accurately determines the source of the body's metabolic fuel. In 2016, beta trials for the Lumen device began, and in 2018, Lumen was officially launched on Indiegogo, where Lumen sold 10,000 devices during the pre-sale campaign alone.

Before Lumen, Daniel co-founded Wibiya, a platform that offered publishers tools for integrating, managing and tracking applications on their websites. In 2011 the company was acquired by Conduit where he held the positions of Vice President for almost three years. Before founding Wibiya Daniel co-founded another company called Joongel, a consumer online search engine.

Daniel lives in Tel Aviv, Israel with his spouse and 3 children.

Jim Cali

Jim Cali entered venture capital after a 34-year record of success in general management, sales and marketing, innovation and organization development in CPG.      Jim honed skills as a marketer in the consumer health care sector during the early stage of his career for Warner Lambert /Pfizer.   For the past 25 years, Jim has focused in the food industry, progressing through a series of leadership roles in sales, marketing and general management at Cadbury, Kraft/Mondelez and Kellogg’s.    Jim was the President and General Manager of Cadbury - Adams Japan where he turned around a declining, money-losing business to a profitable sustainable growth enterprise.  He was SVP and Commercial Director for Cadbury Adams North and South America accelerating innovation and growth across the region.  Jim was promoted to EVP leading Cadbury’s $6B global gum and candy category  and continued in this role following Cadbury’s acquisition by Kraft/Mondelez. During this period, his teams grew global market share through building global brands, creating breakthrough innovation and  launching new businesses into large white space markets like China.   Jim subsequently joined Kellogg’s leading the global category team for the company’s nearly $6B snacking business.  During his career,  Jim has developed deep experience in the innovation space both as a practitioner and leader - developing strategy, coaching cross functional teams, leading the company’s innovation best practice and helping  create incubator-like innovation organizations.  He is a brand builder - both creating new brands and helping to grow multi-billion dollar brands like Trident gum and Pringles.   In addition to a corporate career, Jim spent time as an independent consultant helping other companies establish innovation strategies and mentoring  multiple food start-ups. 

Next Gen Nutrition (NGN) Investment Partners is focused on early stage companies in food/beverage,  food tech and food ingredients.     The NGN managing partners are former food industry executives who leverage their experience and network to help founders realize the full potential of their brands via funding,   planning and executional excellence.  The firm has  5 active investments as well as one exit.  

Afif Ghannoum

Sharon Donovan

Jan Berger, M.D., M.J.

Is a tri-sector healthcare executive with outstanding leadership experience in the three sectors of private, public and government services over the last 30 years. In 2009 Jan founded Health Intelligence Partners as a health care consultancy that blends more than thirty years of business and clinical experience. Health Intelligence Partners has a global focus (engagements in 14 countries with both Health Organizations and National Ministries of Health), helping clients to navigate the intersection of strategy and operations within both the healthcare and consumer goods and services environment in order to identify and articulate high value opportunities.

Prior to founding Health Intelligence Partners, Jan served as Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer and Innovation Officer for CVS Health/Caremark. During that time, she was a corporate officer and on the executive team with P & L (500 million-dollar business unit), operations and strategic experience. Jan also lead Caremark’s Medicare Part D development and was the clinical lead for CVS Caremark’s M & A activity. During this time, Jan developed an expertise in both healthcare and retail consumer behavior.  Before going to CVS Caremark, Jan had 15 years’ experience in healthcare administration within the health plan and academic arenas and lead operations for two population health companies.

As a veteran healthcare executive, Jan’s leadership has delivered results in a variety of settings. Jan offers her experiences and insights through her consulting agency as well as through her participation on healthcare and consumer product boards. She presently sits on healthcare focused boards including), GNS Healthcare (Vice Chair of the Board, Chair; Governance/Compensation/Nomination Committee, M&A/Strategy Committee), Cambia Health Solutions (Consumer Engagement Platform Committee, Health Services Committee), Tabula Rasa (Nominations, Compensation, Governance), UCB Pharmaceuticals and Voluntis Health Care (Chair, M&A/Strategy Committee). Jan’s consumer focused boards have included Savor Health, Care Heroes and Whiskerdocs. Jan previous board experience includes; Care Core National (Committees: Audit and Finance Committee, Compensation, Search, M&A and Strategic Directions), AccentCare (Chair; Compliance Committee, Compensation Committee), Qliance and Rx-Ante. She also sits on numerous business and healthcare advisory boards.

As the author of the books “Leveraging Health”, “Thirteen Common Pitfalls in Consumer Engagement”, “We Don’t Talk Anymore: A Consumer’s Guide to Connecting with their Doctor” and “Medical Liability for Pediatricians”, the past Editor in Chief of American Journal of Pharmacy Benefit and on the editorial boards of a number of healthcare journals, Jan is considered a national health care thought leader. Jan speaks and writes on a broad range of health care and pharmaceutical services issues.

Jan holds both a Doctor of Medicine degree and a master’s degree in jurisprudence from Loyola University in Chicago, and a Certificate in Healthcare Business Administration from University of South Florida. She also holds a black belt in Six Sigma. Jan is an assistant professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine and School of Communication in Chicago, Illinois where she teaches the Engaging the Consumer in Health course.

Johanna Bolinder

As a Registered Associate Nutritionist with the AfN Johanna specialises in advising food companies and health focused businesses on a broad range of nutritional issues to build long term value. Johanna has broad experience and has worked on a number of high profile campaigns at the leading campaigning charity, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation. In her last role at the global snacking leader, Mondelez International, she worked on business critical product change projects, adding value by leveraging her deep understanding of scientific/ regulatory affairs and consumer and sustainability trends. Born in Sweden but with an international background Johanna speaks a number of languages. She is passionate about food and driving better health for people and the planet through sustainable food choices. She is currently leading the Health and Sustainability agenda at Spoon Guru.