Stevia World

John Bhatt serves as the Regional Vice President of Industrial Biotech, North America at Novasep. John is responsible for the industrial markets in North America such as nutraceuticals, sweeteners, high intesity sugars, fermentation, bio-industries, and food and beverage.   His function (in collaboration with his colleagues in France) is to provide process development studies for different [...]

Javier Sáinz is a Chemical Engineer and holds a Master of Science in Bioprocess Engineering, both from the Catholic University of Chile. He has been working for more than a decade in bioprocess development and production for natural extracts, starting in the Wine Association of Chile and moving later into high value natural extracts.
From 2002 [...]

Prof. Silvio Claudio da Costa is a professor of biochemistry at the State University of Maringá – Brazil. He is also the Coordinator of the Studies in Natural Products, a group multiciplinar (Nepron) State University of Maringa, which has worked with stevia in the last 30 years.
He participated in the project that resulted in the [...]

Angus Flood is the Executive Vice President for Strategic Development with Wisdom Natural Brands. He has 20 years experience in the  natural products industry, having worked with category leaders in both the B2B and B2C categories to develop markets and leading natural brands in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
Angus has a wide portfolio of [...]

Jason Hecker is Director of Marketing for PureCircle, heading up global marketing activities for the company.
Throughout his career, he has helped businesses across the United States and internationally to accelerate growth through sound business strategies. Jason has held a number of senior positions in consulting and brand management with some of the world’s leading consumer [...]

Dr. Sidd Purkayastha, Technical Director of PureCircle USA brings more than 20 years experience in the Sweetener industry to his position.
Before joining PureCircle, Sidd was with Tate & Lyle R&D, where he developed and marketed innovative ingredient technology, managed domestic and global technical projects on food ingredients and wellness platform.
He has broad knowledge of the [...]

James Kempland leads the strategic marketing division for GLG. He brings a diversity of experience in high intensity sweeteners, agriculture and supply as well as marketing for consumer package goods. He has worked for and with firms such as Monsanto, NutraSweet, Kraft, Procter & Gamble and other leading multinationals within the food and beverage industry.
He [...]

David Bishop has more than 25 years of experience in international business including organizational, educational, and managerial responsibilities. He has lived and worked as an expatriate in a cross cultural/cross linguistic environment for more than 15 years and has completed assignments in over 40 countries.
He holds a Master of Science in Management from Georgia State [...]

Michael Movitz has 18 years natural products industry experience across retail, manufacturer, broker and information supplier organizations, including 9 years with SPINS.  In his current role as Vice President of Business Development, Michael works with SPINS’ strategic partners & industry organizations along with retailers and manufacturer clients, to solve for business objectives utilizing SPINS services [...]

Sergio Chase is the CEO of Imperio Guarani S.A. in Asuncion, Paraguay, a company which is into Stevia Rebaudiana production. He is also a Consultant to Stevia Project for Merisant Corp since 2008.
Sergio has a Master Of Science in Management from Hult/Arthur D. Little School Of Management in Boston, U.S.A. He also has a Graduate [...]

Roberto Campos is an expert in large scale farming of stevia. He has been working with Merck KGaA (Germany) in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil since 1976 and recently (May ‘09) retired from his position as Director of Natural Products in Brazil. During his career he was responsible for sales, marketing, production and farming and latest [...]

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 herbal [...]

Dr. Regina Goralczyk, is a senior project manager at DSM Nutritional Products Ltd., Basel, Switzerland, the world’s leading supplier of vitamins, carotenoids and other fine chemicals to the feed, food, pharmaceutical and personal care industries.
Regina joined Roche Vitamin Ltd 20 years ago, and developed her career as a principle scientist investigating the health effects of [...]

Mariano Gascon directs product and food technology developments through Wixon’s staff of food technologists, flavorists, and research professionals, and also leads the team of flavor chemists at Wixon. He joined the staff of Wixon, Inc. in 1997 as Flavor Lab Director from Virginia Dare (New York) and IFF (Mexico). His experience in creating flavors spans [...]

Justine Lord has worked for Overseal Natural Ingredients, part of the Naturex Group, as Talin® Business Manager for the last 3 years. Prior to this she has held a number of commercial and marketing roles at Overseal, Natraceutical and also at Kerry Ingredients.
Justine has a technical background and after graduating started her professional career as [...]

Prior to her position as Vice President of Cerilliant, Ms. Rettinger was the Director of Sales and Marketing for the Radian Analytical Products Division where she was responsible for sales, marketing, and technical customer service. She began her career at Radian in 1989 and served as Associate Scientist, Scientist, Staff Scientist, Senior Scientist and Marketing [...]

Dr. Richard C. Kraska began his career at FDA in food additives and moved on to a supervisory position in the GRAS Review.  At FDA, he participated in safety evaluations on sensitive topics such as aspartame, cyclamate and salt.
For the next twenty-two years he had numerous assignments with three major chemical companies where he integrated [...]

Dr George Burdock is an internationally recognized authority on the safety of food ingredients, personal care products and dietary supplements. Dr. Burdock has more than 25 years of experience dealing with regulatory issues related to product safety and risk assessment.
He has been on the forefront of non-nutritive sweetener safety and regulatory assessment and stevia in [...]