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Intended Audience(s): Product Developers, Company Management, Sales & Marketing Personnel, Plant Production Personnel, Quality Assurance Managers and Supervisors, Food Safety Specialists, Nutritionists, Product Manufacturers, Research Staff, Regulators, Academics, Students Learning Level(s): Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Non-Member Registration Fee: $25 Member Registration Fee: FREE Student Registration Fee: FREE Presentation Date: 09/17/12 12:00 PM Duration: 60 Minutes
Kantha Shelke, PhD, CFS Principal Corvus Blue LLC
Kantha Shelke, Ph.D., is a Principal at Corvus Blue LLC, a Chicago-based science and research firm that specializes in competitive intelligence and expert witness services in food science and ingredient technologies. The firm is retained by progressive food and wellness businesses and professional organizations to focus on what matters most in expediting technology development, new product launch and market realization. Shelke is Editor-at-Large of Penton Media’s Functional Ingredients and Nutrition Business Journal, the Technical Editor of Putman Media’s Food Processing & Wellness Foods, and Science & Technology Commentator at PLMA Live! She works and teaches at the intersection of food science and application for health and wellness, focusing on the science of food processing, physiology, regulatory clearance, processing trends, commercialization, and dynamics shaping acceptance and adherence by consumers and markets.
Michael A Bush VP Ganeden Biotech Inc
Michael A. Bush, Vice President of Business Development. Bush has extensive knowledge in the medical, biotech and healthcare arena and has over 17 years of experience in business, including founding a national business growth consultancy firm, co-founding a national biomedical services firm and working on medical acquisitions and mergers for GE Medical Systems. Since establishing Ganeden Labs, Ganeden’s licensing division, in 2006, Bush has seen the company’s probiotic bacteria, GanedenBC30 be added into over 40 food and beverage products from nationally-recognized companies, including Red Mango frozen yogurt, Pierre’s Ice Cream, Max Muscle, Amway, Heartland Sweeteners, Turtle Island Soup and R.C. Bigelow Tea. Bush has also been instrumental in establishing Ganeden’s first animal feed distribution agreement and licensing agreement with a major pharmaceutical company. In addition, he has secured international licensing agreements and the inclusion of GanedenBC30 into leading OTC products. Bush has received numerous awards for his business leadership, including being named to Crain’s Cleveland’s 40 Most Influential People Under 40, was a four time Weatherhead 100 winner, been awarded an EDI Innovation award and most recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Probiotic Association (IPA). He holds degrees in Biomedical Technology from North Central State College and Business Administration from Tiffin University and is active in regional and economic development and entrepreneurial education initiatives.
Kimberly Lord Stewart Natrl Prod Ind Analyst Fd Journalist
Kimberly Lord Stewart is a natural products industry analyst, food journalist and author. She is a monthly contributor to NutriForm, a French trade dietary supplement publication, and a food editor Denver Life magazine and CBS Denver. Since 1994, she’s worked as an editor and journalist for trade and consumer publications dedicated to health and wellness including Functional Ingredients, Natural Foods Merchandiser and Healthwell. Stewart is also the ¨Author of Eating Between the Lines, published by St Martins Press in 2007, and featured in USA Today Weekend, WSJ Smart Money, Shape, CBS & ABC television affiliates. She is also the recipient of two Association of Food Journalist awards in 2004 for food news reporting, and in 2001, she was awarded the Jesse Neal Business Journalism award.