Tamsen Fadal
Alicia Jackson
Dr. Alicia Jackson is the CEO and founder of Evernow, a next-gen telemedicine company focused on menopause. Dr. Jackson has a long track record of bringing to life technological advances to solve pressing challenges facing people across the globe. She is a PhD graduate of MIT; served as a policy staffer for the US Senate Energy Committee; and was the Deputy Director of the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA, the Pentagon’s principal engine for disruptive innovation. In addition to advising several early-stage start-ups, Dr. Jackson sits on the Editorial Advisory Board at TEDMED.
Delphine O’Rourke
Lisa Halvorson
Tess Forge
Vasu Muthyala
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.
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.