Gregory McParland
Michelle Wolf
Michelle Wolf co-founded New Wave Foods shortly after graduating from Carnegie Mellon with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. She is a talented engineer with consumer packaged goods experience, who lead the initial development of New Wave Shrimp as a product "from the sea for the sea." In 2021 she was recognized by Forbes as one of the "30 under 30 Food & Drink" based on her accomplishments co-founding a company that promotes sustainable eating. Her goal is to build a portfolio of sustainable plant-based seafood products embraced by both the operator and the consumer.
Vincent Kitirattragarn
Vincent Kitirattragarn is the founder and CEO of Dang Foods, the largest healthy Asian snack company. Dang’s coconut chips, rice chips, and nutrition bars are found in over 10,000 grocery stores and have earned many industry awards including the coveted SOFI “best snack” award multiple times.
A Cornell Graduate, Vincent is a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, and Gold List A100 awardee. His journey was featured on NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast in 2022.
Vincent and has been an active member of the Asian-American community for decades, organizing an annual Thai-American youth camp, supporting local organizations advancing justice for underrepresented ethnic communities, and supporting Bay Area food banks.
In the natural food industry, Vincent advocates for Asian issues like the recognition of lunar new year and AAPI heritage month. He is also a board member to JEDI Collective, an industry group promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Noah Voreades
Noah is Managing Director of GenBiome Consulting. GenBiome Consulting specializes in the intersection between VMS, digital health, personalization, genetic testing and microbiome (testing, probiotics, prebiotics) across clinical + lifestyle + wellness. Recently, Noah served as Head of External Innovation for Seed Health, the leading microbial sciences consumer health company. Noah’s understanding of the microbiome and personalized health sectors stems from engagements ranging from supporting launch of Nutrisystem’s genetic testing platform DNA Body Blueprint to R&D development with OLIPOP, the leader in functional soda. Additionally, GenBiome has supported digital health companies such as Docbot & Perigon Health 360.
Noah’s insights have been featured in podcasts, Profile by Sanford Health Hacking Health Summit, New Hope’s NBJ Personalized Nutrition Report, SupplySide webinars and company sponsored thought leadership summits.
Noah’s graduate school research focused on the intersection of nutrition, microbiome & metabolomics for biomarker and novel assay development.
Jim Lalrd
CEO and co-founder of ENOUGH, a food-tech company whose purpose is “to make protein sustainable”. ENOUGH address this by growing mycoprotein, an advantaged food ingredient, more sustainably and at lower cost than all other protein options.
ENOUGH are building the World’s largest new protein facility. Located in the Netherlands, this will initially produce the equivalent of 5 cows worth of protein every hour, with plans to make a cow equivalent every 2 minutes by the end of the decade.
Demand for non-animal protein is forecast to grow by +15k tonnes every day for the next 5000 days. ENOUGH’s current plans are not enough to meet a relevant share of this but with collaboration, we embrace the opportunity to go further.
Džiuginta Jasinskytė
I hold a PhD in molecular bacteriology and infection from university of Copenhagen. I worked with pathogenic bacteria from food and animal sources and later with bacteriophages targeting those bacteria. I joined SNIPR Biome in 2019 where I am currently a team lead for Assays and in vitro Biology. Here, I am contributing to research, CMC and clinical development of our drug candidates.