August 2021

In my current role as Investment Manager for Alternative Proteins for Food, I am constantly scouting for outstanding startups in the plant-, fermentation- or cell-based protein space that fit and would benefit from partnering with Nutreco. Besides orchestrating the actual investment process, I ensure that Nutreco’s experts continuously contribute to the startup’s growth, either by managing an actual collaboration or connecting the right people at the right time.

My background is a PhD in biochemistry followed by strategy consulting at McKinsey&Co. Before joining Nutreco, I...Read more

Dr. Ori Bar-Nur serves as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, where he heads the Regenerative and Movement Biology lab. He received his PhD degree with distinction in 2012 from the Hebrew University and completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University in 2018, both in Stem Cell Biology. The primary goal of his laboratory is directed towards finding novel means to expand myogenic progenitors in vitro for regenerative medicine and cellular agriculture purposes. To this end, his lab utilizes direct lineage reprogramming...Read more

Samvith Rao is the global chemical and petroleum manager at MathWorks. He leads the engagement and drives the technical awareness of MathWorks products in these industries. Prior to his current role, he worked as a process engineer at Reliance Industries Limited. He handled technical services, long term projects and modeling & simulation for the reforming units. Samvith earned B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, and an MBA from UNC - Chapel Hill. He is a senior member of the AIChE.Read more