2024 Speakers
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TOWN HALL
Steve Mandernach
Executive Director
AFDO
James Jones
Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods
FDA
Sandra Eskin
Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety
United States Department of Agriculture
Rob Tauxe, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, DFWED, NCEZID, DDID
CDC
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Natalie Adan
Deputy Chief of Operations
Georgia Department of Agriculture
Francis Adenuga
Vice President Technical Service (Quality and Food Safety)
Church Brothers/True Leaf Farms
Ola Afolayan
Director, Global Food Safety and Regulatory
Kellanova
Felice Arboisiere
Director FSQA N. America
Dole
Al Baroudi, PhD
VP, QA & Food Safety
The Cheesecake Factory
Mitzi Baum
CEO
Stop Foodborne Illness
Sharon Beals
Founder
SKKB-LLC
Mark Beaumont
Vice President of Quality and Food Safety Standards and risk Management
Danone
Chirag Bhatt, RS, CCFS
Director – Regulatory Affairs (Environmental Health)
HS GovTech
Adrienne Blume, M.A.
Editorial Director
Food Safety Magazine
John Butts, PhD
Consultant
FoodSafetybyDesign
Damarys Del Castillo
Director of Quality Culture and Food Safety Systems
Sigma
Chitsanzo Chiko Kachaje
Director of Quality Assurance and Food Safety
Home Market Foods
Conrad Choiniere, PhD
Director, Office of Analytics and Outreach
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Andrew Clarke
Senior Director of Quality Assurance
Loblaw Companies Limited
Vanessa Coffman, PhD
Director
Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness
John Crabill
Director, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Chipotle Mexican Grill
Betsy Craig
Founder and CEO
MenuTrinfo LLC
Dionne Crawford
Manager of US Restaurant Food Safety
McDonald's USA LLC
Marc Cwikowski
Co-founder and Managing Director
World of Auditing SRL
Joetta DeFrancesco
Retail Program Standards Coordinator
NEHA
Lori Dodson
Senior Advisor
Maryland Cannabis Administration
Natalie Dyenson
Chief Regulatory and Food Safety Officer
International Fresh Produce Association
Jay Ellingson
Food Protection Administration - Chief Scientific Officer
Kwik Trip, Inc
Jennifer Fernan
Director, FSQA Standards and Supply Quality
J&J Snack Foods Corp.
Robin Forgey
AGMM, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Costco Wholesale
Sarah Gallo
Vice President
Consumer Brands Association
Oscar Garrison
Director of Quality Assurance and Food Safety
United Egg Producers
Melody Ge
Founder
Women in Food Safety
Tina Gettis
Manager, Business Dev. and Comms.
Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH)
Emma Gometz
Digital Producer
The Science Friday Initiative broadcast on NPR
Alison Grantham, PhD
Principal and Founder
Grow Well Consulting
Sanjay Gummalla, PhD
Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs
American Frozen Food Institute
Rebecca Guzy
Director of Research
Frick's Quality Meats
Patrick Guzzle
Vice President of Food Science and Industry
National Restaurant Association
Dr. Eric Handler
Public Health Perspective
Jorge Hernandez
VP, Quality Assurance
The Wendy's Company
Jill Hoffman
Senior Director Food Safety and Quality
B & G Foods Inc
Dan Horan
Food Safety Director
Wegmans Food Markets
Tim Jackson
Regulatory, Sr. Science Advisor
FDA
Lee-Ann Jaykus, PhD
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor & NoroCORE Scientific Director
North Carolina State University
Lone Jespersen, PhD
Principal
Cultivate
Cindy Jiang
Senior Director of Global Food Safety Risk Management
McDonalds
Tülay Kahraman
Co-founder and Managing Director
World of Auditing SRL
Deb Kane, MS
VP, Food Safety, Quality, EHSS & Regulatory
J&J Snack Foods Corp
Larry Keener
President and CEO
International Product Safety Consultants
Gillian Kelleher
CEO
Kelleher Consultants LLC
Megan Kenjora
Senior Manager, Food Safety Culture
Hersheys
Andy Kennedy
Co-founder
New Era Partners
Monica Khoury
Senior Quality Expert
Nestle
Tim King
Founding Partner
Quality Matters
Kathy Knutson, PhD
Educator
Kathy Knutson Food Safety Consulting
Heather Krug
Regulatory Programs Branch Chief
State of Colorado
Mahipal Kunduru, PhD
Vice President, Quality Assurance
Topco Associates LLC
Bill Lachowsky
Food Safety & Education Consultant
WML Consultants
Franck Lamour
Food Safety Manager
EG America
Mike Learakos
CEO
Abound Food Care
Alvin Lee, PhD
Director of the Center for Processing Innovation
Institute for Food Safety and Health
Glenda Lewis, MSPH
Director, Retail Food Protection Staff
FDA
Yaguang (Sunny) Luo, Ph.D.
Distinguished Senior Scientist (ST)
Food Quality Lab & Env. Microbial and Food Safety Lab, USDA-ARS
Steve Mandernach
Executive Director
AFDO
Linda Manning
Transformational Coach
Chip Manuel
Regulatory Strategy and Compliance Program
Instacart
Spir Marinakis
VP of Food Safety, Quality and Technical Services
Maple Leaf Foods
Raquel Maymir
Manager of Global Regulatory Operations and Compliance
General Mills, Inc
Karen McCarty
Senior Director of Commercial Quality Assurance
Agropur
Drew McDonald
VP, Quality and Food Safety
Taylor Farms
Wayne Melichar
Senior Director of Food Safety
Feeding America
Erik Mettler
Assistant Commissioner for Partnerships and Policy
Food & Drug Administration
Susan Mooney
Supervisor, Materials Management and Source Reduction Section, Land and Chemicals Branch, Land, Chemicals and Redevelopment Division, US EPA Region 5
EPA
Sara Mortimore, MSc, FRSPH, MIFST
Former Vice President and Global Subject Matter Expert
Walmart Inc
Roger Muse
Director
ANAB
Brendan Niemira, PhD
Research Leader
USDA
Kathleen O'Donnell
Chief Scientist
Wegmans
Dr. Stan Osuagwu
Vice President of Food Safety and Quality Assurance
Home Chef
Lexi Palacios
Epidemiologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rich Polinski Jr.
Supplier, Quality Assurance, Director
Wegmans Food Markets
Elizabeth Presnell
Food Industry Consultant and Lawyer
Food Industry Counsel LLC
Kim Rice
Food Safety and Quality
Rose Acre Farms
Carrie Rigdon, PhD
Research Director
AFDO
Janet Riley
Owner and President
Janet Riley Strategies
Brendan Ring
Commercial Director
Creme Global
Nick Rowley
Director, Global Sanitation
Kellanova
Britanny Saunier
Executive Director
Partnership for Food Safety Education
Donna Schaffner
Retired from Rutgers University
Jacqueline Southee
North American Representative
FSSC 22000
Matt Stasiewicz, PhD
Associate Professor of Applied Food Safety
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Shawn Stevens
Founding Member
Food Safety Counsel
Glenn Stolowski
Director Retail Food Safety
HEB
Steve Tsuyuki
Senior Director - Sanitation
Maple Leaf Foods
Purnendu Vasavada, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Food Science
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Christopher Waldrop, M.P.H.
Senior Health Scientist
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA
Michael Walton
President
BCD ILabs
Keith Warriner, PhD
Professor, Department of Food Science
University of Guelph
Nickolas Waters
Market Director, Food Safety
Sysco
Michael Wood, PhD
Manager, Food Safety & Quality
Kroger
Rosalind Zils
VP, Head of Global Quality Nutrition
Reckitt
CERTIFICATE COURSE INSTRUCTORS
Martin Bucknavage
Senior Food Safety Extension Associate and Team Lead, Industrial Food Safety and Quality
Penn State
Deanna Copeland
Retail Food Safety Director
AFDO
Dionne Crawford
Manager of US Restaurant Food Safety
McDonald's USA LLC
Roy Fenoff
Associate Professor
The Citadel
Kathy Gombas
Senior Advisor
FSMA Implementation Solutions
Bill Lachowsky
Food Safety & Education
Consultant
Steve Mandernach
Executive Director
AFDO
Joe Meyer
Microbiology Lead
Kerry Global
Kara Mikkelson
Director of Food Safety
ChemStation
Mandy Sedlak
Director, Global Food Safety and Public Health
Ecolab
Donna Schaffner
Associate Director Food Safety, QA & Training
Rutgers University, Food Innovation Center
John Spink, Phd
Director
Michigan State University
Melissa Vaccaro, MS, CP-FS
Senior Food Safety Program Specialist
NEHA
SOLUTIONS STAGE PRESENTERS
Julien Defferrard
Associate Director, Augmented Diagnostics, bioMérieux
Dan Schmidt
US & Canada Sales Director, TuffWrap Installations
Coley Anderson
Director of Industry and Government RElations & Enterprise Solutions Specialist, Registrar Corp
Dr. Darin Detwiler
Food Safety Icon
Steve Ardagh
Founder and CEO, Eagle Protect
Steven Granzow
Northern Illinois Regional Manager, FSS, Inc
Julie McGill
Vice Presidnet of Supply Chain Strategy, Trustwell
Megan Murphy
Manager of the Regulatory Team in Product, Trustwell
Ellie Girard
Southern California District Manager, LUBRIPLATE Lubricants Company
Olaf Degen
Director of Industry Microbiology, Bruker Scientific LLCx
Kurt Westmoreland
Chief Commercial Officer, Flex Xray
Kristy Graves
Sr. Solutions Engineer, CMX1
Melody Ge
Founder, Women in Food Safety
Angela Nardone
COO, Share-ify
Christina Bongo-Box
VP of Retail, Foodservice, and Food Manufacturing, Share-ify
Kathleen Wybourn
Director Food & Beverage US & Canada, DNV
Lute Atieh
Director of Business Development, WorkForge
John DiPalo
Chief Strategy Officer, rfxcel, part of Antares Vision Group
TECH TENT PRESENTERS
Laura Dunn Nelson
VP Food Safety and Sustainability, Intertek Alchemy
Jennifer Lott
Technical Development Director - Food, SGS North America
Bryan Banks
Founder and COO, KipTraq
Herb Wong
Chief Customer Officer, rfxcel, part of Antares Vision Group
Bryan Cohn
Senior Solutions Consultant, SafetyChain
Paul Barnhill
Chief Technology Officer, Meritech
Nick Brown
Director - Supply Chain Solutions, enVista
Mike Fabian
Manager of CompuClean, Spartan Chemical Company, Inc.
Roberto Bellavia
KTL Partner and Senior Consultant, KTL
Amanda Wilder
US Sales Director, Provision Analytics
Christine Schindler
CEO and Co-Founder, PathSpot
Steve Flieder
ProClean Bioremediation Services, IFC
Steve Romero
IFC
Amber Engebretson
Solutions Consultant, PLM TrustLink
Levi Harris
IoT/RFID Technical Solution Consultant, PLM TrustLink
Joe Heinzelmann
Food Safety Digital Services, Neogen