9:00am EDT
Keynote Speaker: The Future of CPG
Speakers & Partners 
Partner; Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Group; Co-Chair Food & Beverage Industry Group, Nutter Law
Jeremy Halpern is a partner and co-chairs Nutter’s Emerging Companies Group. As a food lawyer, Jeremy also co-leads the firm’s Food and Beverage group. Jeremy’s practice focuses on emerging companies, private equity, venture capital and angel financing transactions, mergers...
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Co-founder & CEO, Eat the Change
Seth is the founder of Eat the Change ™, a platform that combines marketplace solutions with education and activism to empower consumers to make dietary choices aligned with their concerns around climate and health. The first venture under the Eat the Change™ umbrella is PLNT...
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9:30am EDT
Marketing Strategy for Emerging Food Brands
Speakers & Partners 
Partner, Compass Marketing
Annette is a creative and committed brand-builder, with a strong analytical background. With 20+ years experience, Annette brings with her insights from a wide range of industries from oral care to personal care to footwear, at companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Procter...
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Founder, Partake
Ted Fleming is the founder of Partake Brewing and Premium Near Beer, some of the first companies in North America dedicated to serving people who crave the taste of beer, wine, cider, or cocktails but choose to avoid alcohol. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, a chronic...
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President, Good Food for Good
Richa is a passionate Consumer Marketer with 10+ years of experience in Canada, USA and India spanning consumer packaged goods, retail and fashion industries. She offers proven skills in leading diverse teams of professionals using situation leadership and exceptional interpersonal...
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10:10am EDT
Break
Wednesday October 21, 2020 10:10am - 10:20am EDT
10:20am EDT
Sales Strategy and Strategic Planning for Emerging Startups
Speakers & Partners 
COO, Rodeo CPG
Kevin has extensive experience in the natural products industry dating back to 2011. On the selling side, he spent 4 years as VP of Sales of Quinn Popcorn (now Quinn Snacks), and 2.5 years as a Brand Manager/Business Development Manager for FDM Sales Management, a leading industry...
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Co-Founder, Loteria Ice Cream
Jorge is an award-winning project manager, engineer, and ice cream connoisseur. In his work, he has overseen infrastructure projects on a global scale. As a co-founder of Loteria, he uses his unique skill set to create a brand that will impact the NYC food scene.
11:00am EDT
Perspectives From the Field: Food Entrepreneurs on Branding, Marketing, Scaling, and Investment
Speakers & Partners 
Managing Editor, Food Business News
Monica covers the latest trends, innovations and developments in the food and beverage industry. Recently she spearheaded the launch of Food Entrepreneur, a new supplement publishing six times a year in Food Business News, and organized its inaugural interactive tasting event featuring...
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Founder, Kalahari Snacks
Tyler Noyes is the Founder of Kalahari Snacks, a Boston based meat snack company that is bringing Biltong and now Crisps to the USA! With a background in corporate strategy and a passion for health and fitness, Tyler jumped into the entrepreneurial world by founding his first company...
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Founder, gr8nola
Olympic Trials Swimmer and Stanford grad Erica Liu Williams came up with the idea for gr8nola when she was craving a tasty, yet healthy snack during a post-Super Bowl "cleanse" she and her NFL hubby do each year. Stuck with few options, she created her own granola recipe using clean...
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Co-founder & CEO, Crafted Energy
Ryan Naboshek is the CEO and Co-Founder of Crafted Energy. Founded in 2014, Crafted Energy is the first and only energy bar company leveraging Functional Nutrition to support the unique needs of athletes. The concept was simple, different sports require different energy & recovery...
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12:00pm EDT
Exclusive Industry Networking with Food Leaders on Remo
Speakers & Partners 
Marketing & Data Innovation Lead, Survey.com
Tina Adolfsson is a VP at
Survey.com, an on-demand retail services company that helps consumer brands win in brick-and-mortar retail. Tina's experience spans 20+ years of business development strategy, finance, and brand go-to-market strategies for consumer goods companies including Procter & Gamble, Ralph Lauren, an...
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CEO, Foodspace Technology
Ayodele (Ayo) Oshinaike is the CEO of Foodspace where he applies Computer Vision and Machine Learning to improving the understanding of CPG products, online delivery utilization and the understanding of nutrition. Ayo has always been interested in entrepreneurship because he has a...
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Director of Entrepreneurship, CommonWealth Kitchen
Roz is the first person you’ll see when you contact CommonWealth Kitchen as an entrepreneur. She helps entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running with CWK, organizes events and educational programs, and develops and manages partnerships with job training programs and business...
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Business Development Director, CommonWealth Kitchen
Melissa joined CommonWealth Kitchen as a consultant, spearheading their first members-only trade show. In August 2019 she joined CWK full time as Business Development Manager, putting her background in marketing and project management to work supporting access to retail and other...
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Account and Marketing Strategist, Nature & Nurture Creative
Elise is the Account and Marketing Strategist at Nature & Nurture Creative, a full-service branding agency for startups and SMEs that specializes in CPG, restaurant, and lifestyle brands. Elise loves building marketing and design strategy for bold, fun brands. Let's talk about your...
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Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP
As counsel in Foley Hoag's Cannabis practice, Michael McQueeny advises businesses, including investors, processors, distributors, retailers and cultivators, on the regulation of the cannabis and CBD industry, with a specific focus on New Jersey and New York.Mike has considerable experience...
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Manager of Nutrition Communications, FRESH Communications
Samantha Bartholomew, MS, RDN is a registered dietitian and Manager of Nutrition Communications at FRESH Communications, a public relations and marketing agency focused on better-for-you food brands in the CPG, retail, restaurant, and meal preparation categories.
Founder & CEO, Rooted Food Sales
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Rooted Food Sales, a local company that helps natural food companies grow their food service lines of business. Matt has extensive experience in the food industry, where he spearheaded sales for two startups, helped grow a $40m company, and acquired...
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Director of Community Engagement, Boston Public Market Association
Carrie DeWitt is the Director of Community Engagement at the Boston Public Market Association, where she has worked since May of 2017. In this role, Carrie plans and implements a calendar of public and private programming and events that support the Market’s public impact and educational...
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Founder, Partake
Ted Fleming is the founder of Partake Brewing and Premium Near Beer, some of the first companies in North America dedicated to serving people who crave the taste of beer, wine, cider, or cocktails but choose to avoid alcohol. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, a chronic...
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Co-founder & CEO, Waku
Juan is a serial entrepreneur and a MBA class 2018 from Babson College. Currently, Juan is the CEO & Co-founder of his 4th company – Waku – a food & beverage brand of functional products using superfood ingredients from the Andes Mountains and the Amazon of Ecuador. He was previously...
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Co-Founder & CEO, Bohana
Nadine Habayeb is the Co-Founder + CEO of Bohana, a nutritious popped water lily seed snack, featured on ABC's Shark Tank. Bohana is the first brand to introduce this ancient Ayurvedic ingredient to the US market. Prior to Bohana, Nadine built her career in Brand Marketing, PR & Communications...
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Partner; Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Group; Co-Chair Food & Beverage Industry Group, Nutter Law
Jeremy Halpern is a partner and co-chairs Nutter’s Emerging Companies Group. As a food lawyer, Jeremy also co-leads the firm’s Food and Beverage group. Jeremy’s practice focuses on emerging companies, private equity, venture capital and angel financing transactions, mergers...
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Partner, Compass Marketing
Annette is a creative and committed brand-builder, with a strong analytical background. With 20+ years experience, Annette brings with her insights from a wide range of industries from oral care to personal care to footwear, at companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Procter...
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Co-founder & CEO, Eat the Change
Seth is the founder of Eat the Change ™, a platform that combines marketplace solutions with education and activism to empower consumers to make dietary choices aligned with their concerns around climate and health. The first venture under the Eat the Change™ umbrella is PLNT...
Read More →
Co-Founder, Loteria Ice Cream
Jorge is an award-winning project manager, engineer, and ice cream connoisseur. In his work, he has overseen infrastructure projects on a global scale. As a co-founder of Loteria, he uses his unique skill set to create a brand that will impact the NYC food scene.
Co-Founder, Brandjectory
Tom Malengo is co-founder, along with his wife, Susan Bryenton, of the Litchfield Fund, a family owned & managed office, that invests, consults, advises & creates partnerships in the natural products industry. They are two of the co-founders of Brandjectory, the new relationship building...
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COO, Rodeo CPG
Kevin has extensive experience in the natural products industry dating back to 2011. On the selling side, he spent 4 years as VP of Sales of Quinn Popcorn (now Quinn Snacks), and 2.5 years as a Brand Manager/Business Development Manager for FDM Sales Management, a leading industry...
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Founder, Curds and Co. LLC
Jenn Mason is the founder and owner of Curds&Co.,
curdbox.com and The Novel Kitchen by Curds&Co. Her passion is storytelling and leading teams who know how to make customers feel welcome and happy. Much of what she works on is connecting artisan makers to the public in order to encourage people to #stopeatingboring and to help support small busi...
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Co-founder, Brandjectory
Michael Movitz has 30 years’ experience in the conscious and premium products industry.Michael is currently Managing Partner of The Movitz Group, an advisory group of industry experts to help early stage conscious brands raise capital and build go to market strategies. Michael is...
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Founder, Kalahari Snacks
Tyler Noyes is the Founder of Kalahari Snacks, a Boston based meat snack company that is bringing Biltong and now Crisps to the USA! With a background in corporate strategy and a passion for health and fitness, Tyler jumped into the entrepreneurial world by founding his first company...
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Founder, Tamim Teas
Liat Racin founded the nation's first tea company dedicated to medicinal mushrooms, Tamim Teas, in 2015. Knowing the health benefits and long traditions of use in eastern medicine, she filled the gap for premium *American grown* medicinal mushrooms in the beverage industry. In 2020...
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Co-founder, Nature & Nurture Creative
Laura Shim is the co-founder, design director, and brand consultant at Nature & Nurture Creative. With a passion for food, sustainability, and typography, she has created iconic food brands, labels, packaging, and identity systems. Nature & Nurture Creative is a full-service branding...
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Co-founder, Shameless Pets
Alex Waite is co-Founder of Shameless Pets, having started her business from her home kitchen with co-Founder, James Bello, in Boston. Her career began in the Natural and Organic Food Industry as the Director of R&D for Mary's Gone Crackers and since then, she has taken over 40 SKUs...
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Principal, Greg Wiseman R&D Consulting LLC
Greg is a food/beverage R&D consultant and entrepreneur with extensive Product Development, Project Management and Strategy experience. He’s known for his strong expertise in food/beverage formula and process development as well as project management and commercialization to deliver...
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founder, evergreens
Ahmad noticed the inefficiency of the fresh food supply chain early on while growing up in Saudi Arabia. Being a big salad fan, he noticed that fruits and veggies travel longer than Americans drive annually to get to his plate, and most of the time they arrive wilted. As an industrial...
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Wednesday October 21, 2020 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Remo
9:00am EDT
Keynote Speaker: Industry Trends
Speakers & Partners 
Reporter, Food Dive
Lillianna has worked as a reporter at Food Dive for more than two years, covering the business of the food and beverage industry. https://www.fooddive.com
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Chief Commercial Officer & Strategic Planning, Motif
Michele Fite is the Chief Commercial Officer of Motif FoodWorks, a food ingredient innovations company. A visionary food business leader & nutrition expert, Michele drives commercial strategy and execution for Motif, leading teams in business development, marketing, sales and product...
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9:30am EDT
The Future of Supply Chain
Speakers & Partners 
Director of Stakeholder Engagement, ReFED
Jackie Suggitt serves as Stakeholder Engagement Director for ReFED, an entrepreneurial non-profit committed to reducing the $218 Billion of food waste in the U.S. In her position, she builds and oversees ReFED’s diverse network of thought leaders, manages the organization’s strategic...
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Founder, Savormetrics
Mr. Harjeet Bajaj, President & CEO: Harjeet has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering & Management and a Master’s Degree in Engineering, both from McMaster University. Harjeet is recognized internationally as an AI expert, having won numerous awards for developing commercially...
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Strategic Marketing Associate, Bay State Milling
Jillian Wishman is a 5th generation family owner of Bay State Milling Company and is responsible for the strategic marketing efforts within their newest division: Varietal Solutions. Her team works to identify, cultivate and commercialize unique, IP seed varieties. Together with...
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10:15am EDT
Break
Thursday October 22, 2020 10:15am - 10:25am EDT
10:25am EDT
The Future of Retail
Speakers & Partners 
Business Reporter, The Boston Globe
Janelle Nanos is a writer, editor, and journalism professor in Boston. She is currently a business reporter at the Boston Globe, where she writes about retail, e-commerce, the food industry and consumer culture. She loves digging into the ideas, people, and businesses that drive Boston’s...
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Chairman & CEO, Food Retail Ventures
James McCann is an investor and/or board member in 36 companies including some of the most exciting companies in the retail tech, food tech and consumer goods sectors including @boweryfarms @datasembly @takeofftechnologies @jyve @flashfoods @grillos @fetchrewards @voicify @deliv @pensasystems.Prior...
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Founder, Survey.com
Panos has over 15 years of technology innovation, building and managing companies from concept to market penetration and growth. He is the Founder and CEO of 3 successful start-up companies in the internet marketing/technology industry and specializes in corporate and product M&A...
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11:10am EDT
The Future of Consumption
Speakers & Partners 
Founder, Sitari Capital
Lisa Sebesta founded Sitari Capital to help investors use their capital to fund businesses that are solving some of today’s most pressing social and environmental issues. She also sees the growing need to for alternative financing structures for these businesses. Lisa has over 20...
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CEO, Willie's Superbrew
Nico Enriquez, a Forbes 30u30 honoree, launched Willie's at a Cape Cod Farmers Market in 2015. Now, after 2 straight years of 150% annual growth his brand is the largest independently owned Hard Seltzer in New England. The dream started after Nico met Willie, his cofounder, on Cape...
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Founder, Preserve
Eric Hudson is the Founder & CEO of Preserve, based in Waltham, Massachusetts. Eric started the Preserve in 1996 with a mission to help reduce the harm caused by the industrial age by demonstrating that products could be both fabulous to use and lighter on the Earth. The company’s...
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11:50am EDT
Consumer Trends
Speakers & Partners 
VP Global Head of Human Insights, Firmenich
Jeffrey is passionate about empowering teams to discover and illuminate powerful human insights to catalyze meaningful innovation in the marketplace. Agile approaches that combine meta-analytics, AI, VR, rich qualitative, social media listening, trend scanning, and emotion measur...
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12:20pm EDT
Break
Thursday October 22, 2020 12:20pm - 12:30pm EDT
12:30pm EDT
Exclusive Industry Networking with Food Leaders on Remo
Speakers & Partners 
Senior Policy Advisor, Foley Hoag LLP
As a senior policy advisor, Andrew Smith provides counsel, guidance and strategy for government relations to businesses and trade associations at the state and federal level of government with particular focus on highly regulated companies within the cannabis, alcohol, healthcare...
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Marketing & Data Innovation Lead, Survey.com
Tina Adolfsson is a VP at
Survey.com, an on-demand retail services company that helps consumer brands win in brick-and-mortar retail. Tina's experience spans 20+ years of business development strategy, finance, and brand go-to-market strategies for consumer goods companies including Procter & Gamble, Ralph Lauren, an...
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Founder & CEO, Rooted Food Sales
Matt is the Founder and CEO of Rooted Food Sales, a local company that helps natural food companies grow their food service lines of business. Matt has extensive experience in the food industry, where he spearheaded sales for two startups, helped grow a $40m company, and acquired...
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Founder, Partake
Ted Fleming is the founder of Partake Brewing and Premium Near Beer, some of the first companies in North America dedicated to serving people who crave the taste of beer, wine, cider, or cocktails but choose to avoid alcohol. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease, a chronic...
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Partner; Co-Chair, Emerging Companies Group; Co-Chair Food & Beverage Industry Group, Nutter Law
Jeremy Halpern is a partner and co-chairs Nutter’s Emerging Companies Group. As a food lawyer, Jeremy also co-leads the firm’s Food and Beverage group. Jeremy’s practice focuses on emerging companies, private equity, venture capital and angel financing transactions, mergers...
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Partner, Compass Marketing
Annette is a creative and committed brand-builder, with a strong analytical background. With 20+ years experience, Annette brings with her insights from a wide range of industries from oral care to personal care to footwear, at companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Procter...
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Partner, Nutter Law
William J. Bernat is a partner in the Corporate & Transactions Department at Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP in Boston, MA, co-chairs the firm's Emerging Companies practice group and Food & Beverage industry group, and serves on the firm’s Hiring Committee. His practice is focused...
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President, Five Way Foods
Prior to founding Five Way Foods, John spent 20+ years as a corporate development and marketing executive working with global software/tech companies. During his career he help lead several start-ups from launch into market leaders, IPO, acquisition and growth companies. A lifelong...
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Co-Founder, Brandjectory
Tom Malengo is co-founder, along with his wife, Susan Bryenton, of the Litchfield Fund, a family owned & managed office, that invests, consults, advises & creates partnerships in the natural products industry. They are two of the co-founders of Brandjectory, the new relationship building...
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Co-founder, Brandjectory
Michael Movitz has 30 years’ experience in the conscious and premium products industry.Michael is currently Managing Partner of The Movitz Group, an advisory group of industry experts to help early stage conscious brands raise capital and build go to market strategies. Michael is...
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Thursday October 22, 2020 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Remo
9:00am EDT
Keynote Speaker: Food Investment
Speakers & Partners 
Co-Founder, Whipstitch Capital
Nick McCoy is a Co-Founder and Managing Director with Whipstitch Capital. In 2001, he co-founded the investment bank Silverwood Partners. In 2009, Mike Burgmaier joined Nick at Silverwood, together they completed nearly forty transactions for clients such as Blake’s All Natural...
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9:50am EDT
Break
Friday October 23, 2020 9:50am - 10:00am EDT
10:00am EDT
Best Practices for Investment in CBD Startups
Speakers & Partners
Senior Policy Advisor, Foley Hoag LLP
As a senior policy advisor, Andrew Smith provides counsel, guidance and strategy for government relations to businesses and trade associations at the state and federal level of government with particular focus on highly regulated companies within the cannabis, alcohol, healthcare...
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Counsel, Foley Hoag LLP
As counsel in Foley Hoag's Cannabis practice, Michael McQueeny advises businesses, including investors, processors, distributors, retailers and cultivators, on the regulation of the cannabis and CBD industry, with a specific focus on New Jersey and New York.Mike has considerable experience...
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10:20am EDT
Best Practices for Assessing Financials, Term Sheets, and Valuation
Speakers & Partners 
Senior Managing Director, Launchpad Venture Group
Christopher Mirabile is a member of the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission's Investor Advisory Committee. Christopher is the Chair Emeritus and Public Policy Chair Emeritus of the Angel Capital Association and the co-founder of portfolio management tool
www.seraf-investor.com. He is also co-Managing Director of Launchpad Venture Group, a Boston-based venture investment group focused on seed and early-stage investments in technology-oriented companies. Launchpad is top-three ranked group in the U.S. As a full-time angel investor and an active member of the B...
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11:20am EDT
Break
Friday October 23, 2020 11:20am - 11:30am EDT
11:30am EDT
Due Diligence: How to Identify Real Opportunities
Speakers & Partners 
Partner, 1st Course Capital
Renske Lynde has worked in the food and agriculture sector for over 20 years. She is an active investor, philanthropist, Board member and advocate for a sustainable global food system. Renske is positioned to speak on a range of topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation and investment...
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12:00pm EDT
Successful Angel Story
Speakers & Partners 
Co-founder, Branch Venture Group
Marcia Hooper currently serves as a Partner of Branch Venture Group, LLC, an angel investing group, focused on food startups, targeting food products, food technology, business services for food-related companies, ag-tech, and sustainability. She has over 29 years of venture investing...
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Co-Founder and CEO, Mori
Adam has spent his career developing and translating technologies in the areas of food, agriculture, healthcare, and nutrition.Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Langer Lab at MIT where he managed several projects focused on improving healthcare and nutrition in the...
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12:45pm EDT
Closing Remarks
Speakers & Partners 
Founder & CEO, Branchfood
Lauren Abda is the Founder and CEO of Branchfood, the largest community of food entrepreneurs and startups in New England, and Co-founder at Branch Venture Group, an angel network for investment in early-stage food startups. Prior to Branchfood, Lauren consulted for foodtech businesses...
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