Tom Elliott
Tom is a founding member of the Future Brands Team at Sainsbury’s, tasked with spearheading the growth of new & distinctive brands across food and drink. He has been responsible for some of the biggest NPD launches in Sainsbury’s this year. Prior to this, he led Sainsbury’s expansion into Hong Kong & Singapore, the first time in its 150-year history, as well as holding a number of commercial and strategic roles, with a background in Strategy Consulting.
Fabien Gross
The wine house ‘Pierre Chavin’ was founded by Fabien Gross
and Mathilde Boulachin. Fabien Gross is a specialist of the art
of wine-blending and wine innovation.
Originally from Alsace, is grandfather, with whom he grew up,
had a wine estate and taught him the first tricks of the trade.
Fabien became passionate about viticulture and wanted to
delve into the scientific and biological aspects of the job.
For this, Fabien went to study agronomy, oenology in
Burgundy and WSET Diploma (starting the Master of Wine).
After successfully completing this, he started a blitz career in
the French wine industry and in California.
After several top jobs at large French wineries, Fabien wanted
to develop his own wine estate. In 2010, his dream became
reality and he founded the Villa Noria domain, where he
focused on the production of organic, environmentallyfriendly
wines.
There, our winegrower met Mathilde Boulachin, a marketing
specialist, and they founded wine estate Pierre Chavin
together.
At Pierre Chavin, Fabien is the chief winemaker and in charge
of R&D, innovation. He creating since 2011 the new line of
alcohol free wine.
Pierre Chavin is now the first French producer of premium
alcohol free wines.
Mr. Mike Wang
Prof. Tomoyoshi Yoshinaga
Dr Tomoyoshi Yoshinaga is a professor of the Department of Aquatic Bioscience at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo. After receiving his PhD degree from that university in 1987, he entered the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as a researcher, where he worked at the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science and the National Research Institute of Aquaculture. He returned to the University of Tokyo in 2002 as a professor after his fifteen-year career at the ministry. Dr Yoshinaga is still a member of several committees on fish health and animal drugs in the ministry. He has been serving as the president of the Japanese Society of Fish Pathology since 1 April 2019. He has studied mainly fish and shellfish parasites and, for the last ten years, has expanded his interest and activity in the field of biosecurity of aquatic animals.
