Stevia World

Robert Jonsson, a partner at Ingredient Marketing International, wrote a detailed report outlining his experience at Stevia World Europe. We are happy to present part 1 of this detailed report, where he outlines the highlights of the conference.
The Stevia World team of the well-known Singapore based conference organizer Centre for Management Technology (CMT) successfully launched [...]

Stevia applications, upcoming market opportunities, flavour masking, sweetness enhancing, quality control and supply chain management are high on the agenda at the Stevia World Americas Conference.
America’s 1st Global Stevia conference, Stevia World Americas conference will meet on 25-26 February 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia, and will explore Stevia’s Advancement as Mainstream Sweetener in the region.
For hundreds [...]

James A. May is the founder, President and CEO of Wisdom Natural Brands®, producer of SweetLeaf® brand products, Sweet & Slender® natural sweetener, Wisdom of the Ancients® herbal teas. Originally learning from the natives of Paraguay, he is now a recognized authority on several South American herbs. He introduced stevia, YerbaMaté and other health generating [...]

Greg Horn has been in the beverage industry for over 20 years. He recently accepted a new position at WILD Flavors, Inc. as the Senior Director, Sweetener Technology to manage the commercialization and application of stevia and taste modifiers for high intensity sweetners.Prior to that, Greg was the Senior Director of Technology and Innovation at [...]

Konstantinos Karayiannis works at the overseas department of Morita Kagaku Kogyo, where he is in charge of overseas sales, business development as well as communication & coordination issues related to the overseas operations.
After graduating the Business & Administration Faculty of Piraeus University in Greece, he moved to Japan where he completed his post-graduate studies in [...]

Dr. Jingjun Liao is the Board Director and CEO of Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp, member of China National High-Tech food development council. Before Joining Layn, 8 years working experience in P&G as food senior scientist and external business development manager. Graduated from Peking University, subjecting in biochemistry, expert in photochemistry, human nutrition, and intelligence [...]

Carlos Galian from Argentina is currently the Executive Officer Misiones Technological Park.  He obtained his degree in  Chemical Engineer- School of Exact, Chemical and Natural Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de Misiones and is now the Dean for that division in the university
In his capacity as Executive Director of the Misiones Technological Park, Carlos is [...]

Robert Jonsson has an educational background with degrees in chemistry and marketing. He has mainly been working for American multinationals like Rohm & Haas, Dow Chemical and NutraSweet in Europe, followed by Ajinomoto, before lately starting his own consulting firm. During the last 20 and more years he has been involved with the market development [...]

Carl Horn is the Head of Regulatory Affairs at EUSTAS, the European Stevia Association. he is also the founder and President of Granular, the Sweden-based European stevia producer.
Carl has been serving as an advisor to various companies in the financial sector and has been serving as a liaison and advisor to a number of public [...]

Jan M.C. GEUNS studied biology at the KULeuven and is Professor of plant physiology and head of the Laboratory of Functional Biology. His research interest is natural product biochemistry. Since 1993 his research focuses on the biosynthesis of sweeteners in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni as well as on toxicological studies in animals. He is one of [...]

Joël Perret got his Science Doctorate from Paris VI University in Natural Sciences with a specialization in Molecular Biology. His professional experience started in fundamental research in Life Sciences and Genetic Engineering, then evolved to applied Research and Development and finally in Industrial and Supply Chain Management among different multinational companies (Limagrain, Danone, Best foods, [...]

1982 University of Frankfurt/Main = Degree Diplombiologe
1982 – 1987 Deputy Head of Unit at Hessische Landesanstalt für Tierzucht
1987 – 1997 Scientific officer, European Commission several RtD programmes (Biotechnology and Human Genome Anlysis)
since 1998 Administrator in the Unit responsible for food law; today principle administrator, repsonsible for the implementation of the Novel Food Regulation (Regulation (EC) [...]

Simon Bentley is a Director of LMC and heads the company’s research into grains and grain processing. This encompasses markets for intense sweeteners such as Stevia, which compete within the broader market for caloric sweeteners.
Mr Bentley’s area of expertise includes many aspects of the food processing industry, and he has undertaken numerous projects investigating the [...]