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Mar is an experienced Innovation and Operations Manager in the Food & Beverage industry, with demonstrated track record on Innovation deployment internationally. She has held several roles in different countries in Nestle, including R&D, Operations as well as Business Operations. In her current role she leads teams across Europe, Middle East and North Africa to excel at accelerated new product launches through efficient Product Development and effective Operations footprint mindset

Rob Reames is VP Commercial at Eatplanted, the number one Swiss meat alternative brand. Rob’s experience includes some of the biggest Global brands and he is no stranger to establishing new categories into the mainstream having led Alpro’s commercial team across Europe at Board level. Other brand experience includes PepsiCo, Reckitt and Danone internationally.

Rob strongly believes in purpose driven businesses like Eatplanted and he is deeply passionate about accelerating the growth and adoption of meat alternatives as part of healthy, plant-based and flexitarian diets.

After getting his PhD in Biotechnology (1988) from the Agricultural University in Wageningen(The Netherlands), Willjoined DSM in the Netherlands. During his 30+ years at DSM, he held various international management positions in Research, Business Development and Business Management. Under his leadership multiple sustainable biobased processes were commercialized (e.g. fine chemicals for pharma, semi-synthetic antibiotics, bio-succinic, and canola protein).Early 2020 Will joined Those Vegan Cowboys as Project Director. Those Vegan Cowboys, is a novel initiative of the founders of TheVegetarian Butcher (sold at the end of 2018 to Unilever). The aim of Those Vegan Cowboys is to sustainably produce milk proteins and their corresponding dairy products by efficient microbial fermentation processes