I am passionate about food! I love the opportunity to explore across all the categories that we get to work on. Every day is a new inspiration.
Hometown:
Holmdel, NJ
What Inspires Me:
New flavors, textures, and tasting something I’ve never had before. I love applying lessons I’ve gathered throughout my decades-long food career, especially when I get to solve complex technical problems without sacrificing taste.
Guilty Food Pleasure:
Milk chocolate. Some say that adults should only eat dark 70% chocolate, but have you ever had a European-style milk chocolate? It’s astoundingly good.
Area(s) of Specialization:
My specialization is synthesizing my broad experience into scalable client applications. My background includes work in:
- Food product innovation and formulation
- R&D strategy and leadership
- Complex technical problem-solving
- Sensory science and consumer research
- Design of experiments and statistical analysis
- Product commercialization and scale-up
- New product development and existing-product improvement
- Cross-functional collaboration with manufacturing, quality, supply chain, marketing, finance, and procurement
My category expertise spans snacks (chips, nuts, popcorn, bars, and frozen appetizers), baking mixes and whole-grain products, desserts, and better-for-you foods.
I love reimagining familiar or nostalgic foods for modern consumers.
Outside the Office:
On my days off, I enjoy experimenting with pizza dough for home-oven baking and visiting pizza restaurants for inspiration (like Apizza Scholls in Portland).
I also love playing board games, video games, miniature games, and role-playing games, where I get to bring friends and family together to laugh and build memories.
Education:
- Master’s in Food Science – Colorado State University