Chris Todd
Chris is an experienced consumer insights specialist who works day-to-day with global clients across the Food & Beverage, Home Care and Personal Care categories to inform their Innovation, Strategy and Marketing decisions using social data and trend prediction methodologies.
Jared Dennis
As a Senior Team Leader, Jared's primary role at BASF Enzymes LLC is to develop and implement robust platforms for enzyme discovery, evolution, and bioresources management. This includes integrating laboratory automation, digital workflow tracking, and state of the art molecular biology technologies with the design-build-test-learn framework for the optimization of commercial enzymes. BASF Enzymes develops, produces, and markets a diverse portfolio of enzymes products used in animal nutrition, baked goods, bioenergy, home care and industrial and institutional solutions as well as pulp and paper and oilfield solutions.
"We are currently in an unprecedented era in which we can design, engineer, and evaluate enzymes at will, bound only by the limits of our creativity. By intelligently surveying these vast genetic landscapes we have the exciting opportunity to unlock sustainable solutions to a variety of global industrial challenges."
Shari B Mahon
Shari leads the company’s flavor technology and product development activities, focusing specifically on working directly with clients to deliver great tasting, healthier food and beverage options for their
consumers and expanding and strengthening their brand position.
Prior to joining Sweegen in 2018, Shari held various executive roles in the flavor industry focusing on domestic and global innovation with a proven track record in commercializing flavor and ingredient technologies.
Shari has been a successful senior leader in product and process development, global innovation and business development for 32 years and worked for Brown Forman, Flavorman, Sensient, Firmenich, Mane,
Senomyx and Chromocell.
Shari received her Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky and an Executive MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ.