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113 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConversations with industry experts on how new technologies are impacting sensory and consumer science.
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Isabelle Lesschaeve - Meet Your Consumers Where They Are
December 08, 2020 14:20 - 30 minutes - 24.8 MBDr. Isabelle Lesschaeve is a sensory and consumer scientist with 25+ years of experience. Isabelle held positions with increasing responsibilities in academia and R&D departments in France, Canada, and the US, most recently as the Director of Product Guidance at The Coca-Cola Company. Isabelle is the author and co-author of 50+ peer-reviewed articles. She excels in and loves designing learning plans to unlock complex questions related to consumer consumption behaviors. Isabelle...
Leah Hamilton - Computational Thinking
December 03, 2020 15:53 - 31 minutes - 20.6 MBLeah Hamilton is a PhD Candidate at Virginia Tech, working in the sensory science lab with Dr. Jacob Lahne. Leah researches method development in sensory science and has a particular focus on the application of computer science and natural language processing to food flavor language. She received her bachelor's in Food Science at NC State University, and then spent two years studying cucumber pickle off-flavors in a USDA lab. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-hamilton-77888ba5...
Lorre Atlan - Wisdom in Data
November 30, 2020 14:44 - 32 minutes - 25.6 MBDr. Lorre Atlan currently works as a Data Scientist at GSK. Lorre was hired as a Future Leaders Program associate, which provides leadership expertise through 3 rotations throughout GSK. She has tackled various machine learning problems in Pharma R&D and Manufacturing. In her current role in Consumer Health R&D, she builds machine learning models to help sensory scientists improve the consumer sensory experience. Lorre revels in strategically employing machine learning and Python programming...
Kli Pappas - Build Your Team
November 23, 2020 15:12 - 35 minutes - 27 MBDr. Kli Pappas is a Manager of Data Science at the Colgate-Palmolive company. In his current role, he founded a group called Predictive Innovation which is focused on applying data science and software engineering techniques to accelerate innovation processes. His team focuses on building and deploying algorithms to empower scientists and marketers to build better products faster. Kli received his Ph.D in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2016. His thesis work focused on bridging the ga...
Daniel Ennis - The Chemistry of Choice
November 12, 2020 16:05 - 31 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Daniel Ennis is the President of The Institute for Perception. Danny has more than 40 years of experience working on product testing theory and applications for consumer products. He holds doctorates both in food science and in mathematical & statistical psychology. He is also a Professional Statistician accredited by the American Statistical Association. Among his many accomplishments, Danny has published extensively in the chemical senses and on mathematical models for human decision-...
Dr. Sara Jaeger - Bridging the Gap
October 27, 2020 14:47 - 37 minutes - 29.3 MBSara trained in Denmark and the UK and currently leads a team of sensory and consumer researchers at the New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research. She has an extensive international research network and is particularly interested in consumer behaviour and research methodology. Sara has worked with several global food and beverage companies, and is a regular speaker at conferences. Sara co-chaired the 9th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium and currently serves as editor for the journal...
Janavi Kumar - A Learning Mindset
October 12, 2020 13:12 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBJanavi Kumar is a Digital Senior Sensory Scientist at General Mills, where she focuses on experimentation with digital tools and new technologies to enhance the way we collect and utilize sensory and consumer data for decision making. Prior to her current role, Janavi served as a Sensory Scientist at General Mills in strategic product and consumer research related to innovation, renovation, and quality. She has led sensory research for a variety of different product platforms and initi...
Karen Graves - Start Small
October 05, 2020 13:41 - 25 minutes - 19.7 MBKaren Graves is the Senior Director of Sensory & Consumer Sciences at Bell Flavors & Fragrances. She is passionate about integrating sensory properties and consumer needs to guide and validate creative development and innovation. Prior to joining Bell Flavors & Fragrances, Karen spent more than a dozen years at Kraft Foods as a Sensory Manager. At Kraft, Karen managed the Sensory Evaluation Center and led Sensory and Consumer Research for Philadelphia, DiGiorno, Jell-O, Velveeta, and K...
Sai Sreenivas Kodur - Fork to Farm
September 23, 2020 15:06 - 31 minutes - 25.9 MBSai Sreenivas Kodur is the Co-Founder & CTO of Spoonshot, a technology startup supporting food innovation intelligence. Sai is specialised in compilers and machine learning, with a working experience in internet technology companies solving the problems of search and recommendations. Sai worked at Zomato, India's largest food ordering and restaurant discovery platform, as a Software Engineer in search, where he re-built its search relevance and ranking models from scratch to improve restaura...
Christer Volk - Participation is Key
September 16, 2020 13:33 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBDr. Christer Volk is a full-time specialist at SenseLab with a PhD from Aalborg University in Denmark with a thesis entitled “Prediction of perceptual audio reproduction characteristics.” Christer’s tasks include: helping clients formulate test requirements, designing listening tests for perceptual audio evaluation, analysing data, improving SenseLab’s proprietary software SenseLabOnline with special focus on the statistics module, contributing to Audio Engineering Society conferences,...
Patrick Flanagan - Open Your Ears
September 08, 2020 13:18 - 32 minutes - 27.2 MBPatrick Flanagan is an Expert Audio Experience Scientist at Logitech. His primary research areas are in the perception of spatial audio processing, psychoacoustics, acoustics, and signal processing. Patrick has co-authored a series of papers on the Evaluation of Binaural Renderers, and has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society since 2004. Before joining Logitech, Patrick was VP of Audio Architecture at THX. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pfaudio/ To learn more ...
Zata Vickers - Dimensions of Satiety
September 02, 2020 14:59 - 30 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Zata Vickers is a professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. Her research encompasses the spheres of sensory evaluation of foods and of food acceptability. She has focused her research on such topics as crispness, astringency, sensory-specific satiety, long term acceptability of foods, using food to improve mood, and methods research related to topics such as palate cleansers and odor mixtures. She directs the Sensory Center at the Univer...
Tiffany Pitra - There’s a Reason We Hire Humans
August 31, 2020 13:07 - 30 minutes - 21 MBOriginally from Iowa, Tiffany Pitra relocated to Yakima, Washington in 2010 where she immediately fell in love with the hop industry. Tiffany holds a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and in 2014, she completed the UC Davis Applied Sensory and Consumer Science Certificate while building her first raw materials sensory program. She continues to be very active in the ASBC Sensory Subcommittee, helping validate sensory methods and hosting workshops at annual meetings. At Yakima Chief Ho...
Denise Pohlhaus - Computational Sensory Science
August 25, 2020 13:44 - 30 minutes - 22 MBDenise Pohlhaus leads a team of data enthusiasts within GSK Consumer Health. Denise has a PhD in Chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill and conducted her postdoctoral studies at UCSF. She started off as a computational chemist doing pre-clinical drug discovery within GSK Pharma R&D where she applied physics-based methods and cheminformatics techniques to drug discovery problems -- resulting in patent applications and publications. Denise then moved to GSK Consumer Health to build and execute s...
Steve Keller - The Power of Sound
August 19, 2020 15:17 - 35 minutes - 29.4 MBSteve Keller is Sonic Strategy Director for Studio Resonate at Pandora. Prior to joining Pandora, Steve was the founder and CEO of iV, an audio consultancy based in Nashville that specialized in the strategy, content, research and management necessary for successful audio branding initiatives. Steve is recognized as one of the foremost experts in the field of audio branding, actively engaged in projects that explore the power of sound to shape perceptions and influence behavior. Recent...
Stella Salisu Hickman - Press the Green Button
August 13, 2020 14:35 - 30 minutes - 22.2 MBDr. Stella Salisu Hickman, currently Vice President Sensory & Insights at Brisan Group, has over 18 years of experience in the flavor and fragrance industry. Stella holds a Doctorate degree in Organization & Management, a Masters’ degree in Biochemistry and a B.S. in Analytical Chemistry. She started her career at IFF. From there her career led her to sensory management at Coca-Cola, to building a global sensory program at Martek/DSM Nutritional Products, and an international opportuni...
Jonathan Million - Metrics that Matter
August 11, 2020 14:43 - 31 minutes - 27.2 MBJonathan Million is an innovative and insightful technical research expert, with vast experience across product testing, sensory, and claims methodology creation. Curiosity makes him ask questions, and the search for solutions drives the innovative values that have built Blue Yonder. Jonathan loves working with teams who drive positive change by pushing boundaries, building eco-systems that deliver positive impact and innovate the path to lean, agile working systems that accelerate client jo...
David Sime - Worlds of Possibility
August 04, 2020 13:05 - 39 minutes - 34.1 MBDavid Sime directs AR and VR activities for Oncor Reality and has led Digital Marketing, Video, Augmented and Virtual Reality projects across five countries and twenty-five distinct industries. With over 20 years’ experience in demonstrating the quantifiable benefits of digital media in energy, hospitality, education and medicine, David works with Google, Scottish Enterprise and the CIM to apply emerging technology such as Virtual and Augmented Reality to meet new and existing organisationa...
Christine Van Dongen - Quality not Quantity
July 30, 2020 13:56 - 33 minutes - 24 MBDr. Christine Van Dongen is an experimental psychologist who has enjoyed an extensive career in the sensory evaluation field, helping companies make products that work for consumers. Her early career consisted of teaching experimental psychology at various universities and doing research in sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes. Her career as a sensory professional has involved research on a variety of sensory questions such as discrimination methodologies, team tastings, and how sens...
Qian Janice Wang - Adaptable to Change
July 27, 2020 16:22 - 32 minutes - 26.6 MBDr. Qian Janice Wang is an assistant professor of food science at Aarhus University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the role of the brain sensory system and its connection to flavour perception and eating behaviour, in order to gain a deeper understanding of why people eat what they do, and to encourage behaviour change for a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. To achieve this goal, she works to develop new ways to evaluate the consumer experience - from opinion mining to virtu...
Meghan Peltz - Diverse Selection
July 16, 2020 13:14 - 30 minutes - 25.6 MBMeghan earned her BS degree in Food Science from Michigan State University and an MS in Food Science and Technology from Oregon State University studying hop chemistry and sensory. Meghan has five years of experience managing the sensory program at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. covering both the Chico, CA, and Mills River, NC, breweries. Her group is involved with daily quality tastings and sensory evaluations that support research, innovation and new brand development. Meghan is an active mem...
Alexandra Pierce-Feldmeyer - Flavors of Research
July 08, 2020 13:11 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBDr. Alexandra (Alex) Pierce-Feldmeyer is a sensory scientist at Mane, Inc., where her research interests include how psychology influences flavor perception and how we can better measure reactions to foods and beverages, including implicit and explicit measures of human behavior. Alex completed her PhD at Ohio State University in sensory evaluation and psychophysics, assessing the functional or cognitive benefits from food and food ingredients. Homepage: https://www.mane.com/ Linked...
Stan Knoops - Real Insights
June 25, 2020 13:38 - 30 minutes - 23.9 MBStan Knoops is the Global CI Director at IFF (International Flavors and Fragrances). Stan has over 12 years of global experience at the creative interface of R&D, Marketing and consumer behavior. He has degrees in Food Science, Food Marketing, and Economics. At the start of his career, Stan had the opportunity to work closely with some of the most innovative thought leaders in sensory research such as Pieter Punter and Harry Lawless. Currently Stan leads the consumer research program for the...
Thierry Lageat - The Experience of Life
June 19, 2020 17:10 - 36 minutes - 28.8 MBThierry Lageat is the Co-founder of Eurosyn, a Sensory and Consumer testing agency. Eurosyn tests prototypes and improves sensory experiences for a wide range of companies, everything from Chanel to Ferrari to Nestle. In 1994 Thierry was the first in France to use sensory science for non-food products, including within the auto industry. In addition to his 25-year career in sensory science, Thierry also founded the Hoo-Ha Festival in 2008 which aims to shake up disciplinary boundaries and cr...
Ali Schultz - Silver Linings
June 10, 2020 15:43 - 29 minutes - 21.8 MBSince earning her master’s in food science from the University of California, Davis in 2012, Ali has been a part of New Belgium’s Sensory program and became the Sensory manager there in 2019. During this time she has run finished product and in process panels and trainings for quality assurance as well as implemented descriptive analysis and sour beer panels for product development. The system of training and panelist performance tracking she developed provides robust, actionable data to ens...
Curtis Luckett - Texture Matters
June 08, 2020 15:51 - 31 minutes - 25.5 MBDr. Curtis Luckett is an assistant professor of food science at the University of Tennessee. He got his M.S. and Ph.D. in food science from the University of Arkansas. Since joining the University of Tennessee, Curtis has built a research program in which food texture is a cornerstone. However, Curtis’ lab has many evolving research interests and does additional work on sensory methodology, cross-modal correspondences, and olfaction. Homepage: http://sensory.tennessee.edu/index.php/peo...
Creme Global - Appetite for Risk
June 04, 2020 16:09 - 38 minutes - 34.4 MBClare Thorp is currently the Senior Vice President, for Creme Global where she works with companies and government agencies to support their decision-making processes through the harnessing of big data and deployment of advanced computational tools. Since 2010, Clare has held executive leadership positions in trade associations and non-profits including CropLife America, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization and the International Life Sciences Institute of North America. Cronan McNam...
Jared Simmons - Figure Out a New How
May 28, 2020 17:12 - 29 minutes - 26 MBJared Simmons is Founder and Principal of OUTLAST Consulting LLC, an Atlanta-based consultancy that helps companies bring an innovation mindset to their toughest business problems. Prior, Jared was a Strategic Initiatives Director at the Coca-Cola Company, responsible for creating and cultivating a pipeline of product innovation initiatives for various business units. Before joining Coca-Cola, Mr. Simmons was part of the Product Development and Innovation practice at McKinsey and Company, wh...
Dag Piper - Co-Creating with Consumers
May 18, 2020 15:30 - 29 minutes - 22.7 MBDag is an Inspiring trilingual leader at the interface of Marketing and R&D, loving Innovation, trends and insights, networking, design thinking, and social media. Dag has more than 20 years of experience in B2B and B2C context. Dag is a lecturer at different Universities and an international Conference speaker on Innovation, Trends and consumer behaviour in the digital age. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dagpiper/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bugdag Website: https://futur...
Dal Perio - Remembering Rose Marie
May 07, 2020 13:42 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBDal Perio is currently a Senior Manager of Product Insights at Starbucks Coffee Company. His 30-year career in the food industry includes positions in Sensory Science, Consumer Research and Marketing Research. In addition to Starbucks, Dal has worked for the Fortune 500 companies Johnson & Johnson, Dean Foods, Campbell’s Soup and Wrigley, in sensory, marketing research and culinary roles. He worked at Tragon Corporation, Diageo, Pepperidge Farm, WhiteWave Foods and Unilever. He led a...
Danielle Reed - Flipping the Script
May 06, 2020 13:12 - 31 minutes - 23.3 MBDr. Reed is the Associate Director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, which is a non-profit research institute with scientists that use a multidisciplinary approach to study taste and smell. She has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. Scientists in her laboratory study how genotype account for personal differences in taste perception....
Darla Hall - Healthy Disruption
May 04, 2020 13:11 - 34 minutes - 27.2 MBDarla Hall, Founding Partner of Research Vibe, guides cross-functional teams to deliver strategic solutions that transform consumer insights into innovative products and brands. Darla has lived and played in the world of product and market research for three decades, providing services to CPG, non-profits, entertainment and healthcare industries. As a Sensory Scientist and Certified Food Scientist, she brings a unique research perspective to CPG client teams. With a deep understanding of foo...
Jacob Lahne - You Are the Company You Keep
April 30, 2020 15:49 - 36 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Jacob Lahne is an assistant professor of food science at Virginia Tech Jake brings an interdisciplinary background to sensory science. Besides his extensive work experience in the culinary field: he has worked as a farmhand, as a line cook in fine dining, and as a cheesemonger at Cowgirl Creamery. He is broadly interested in adapting new tools into sensory-science and has had success adopting diverse approaches to understanding sensory perceptions, from qualitative research to complex-sy...
Kyle McNamara - Knowledge Graphs at the Center
April 22, 2020 15:07 - 36 minutes - 32 MBKyle McNamara is the President & CEO at Graphable. He has 25+ years in the software industry as a full-stack web-application developer and architect, as well as in enterprise analytics, software sales and technical pre-sales. Working in venture capital-funded startups to Fortune 50 technology companies, he has created and led teams of all sizes. Recently he managed the IBM Financial Services Cloud/Analytics Architect team, followed by launching Graphable. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin...
Cordelia Running - Upskill Your Subjects
April 14, 2020 16:40 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBDr. Cordelia Running, a chemist and a psychophysicist, uses flavors and sensations to understand human behavior and improve human nutrition. As an assistant professor of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, Dr. Running studies Saliva, Perception, Ingestion, and Tongues (The SPIT Lab) to help people to stick to healthy yet palatable diets. Her recent work emphasizes how saliva might adapt to bitter, healthy foods over time, trapping some of the bitter molecules and reducing the bitterness....
Betina Piqueras-Fiszman - No Questions Wasted
April 06, 2020 14:16 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBDr. Betina Piqueras-Fiszman is an Associate Professor at Wageningen University. Her research focuses on the exploration of novel ways to understand food perception, preferences, and motivations. Betina is particularly interested in the connection between how the mind works at an implicit level and what we observe explicitly. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate the link between consumers’ associations, perception, and motivation, and teaches on these topics. She has published...
Frank Rossi - Skills for Success
March 27, 2020 13:04 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBFrank Rossi is an R&D Director at PepsiCo in Plano TX, where he leads the statistics team supporting PepsiCo’s global snacks business. He is an Accredited Professional Statistician with more than 30 years of industry experience including positions at Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup Company and General Foods. Frank is coauthor of the book Statistics for Food Scientists: Making Sense of the Numbers which was published by Academic Press in 2015. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankr...
Martha Bajec - Sensory as Input
March 20, 2020 14:32 - 32 minutes - 27.8 MBMartha Bajec is the principal and founder of Bajec Senseworks consulting, located in Burlington ON. Martha is a highly-regarded scientist, and an expert at designing, directing, and delivering evidence-based, actionable insights. Martha is known for her clear and concise communication as an individual contributor and as a leader of internal and external multidisciplinary teams. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marthabajec To learn more about Aigora, please visit www.aig...
Richard Popper - What Job Do You Want Your Data to Do?
March 19, 2020 14:49 - 29 minutes - 25.5 MBRichard Popper is CEO of P&K Research, a consumer research agency dedicated to helping client companies improve and grow their product portfolio. Richard began his career as a member of the Behavioral Sciences Group at the U.S. Army Natick RD&E Center, and, prior to joining P&K Research, Richard held management positions at Ocean Spray Cranberries in R&D and Marketing. Richard regularly contributes to professional societies on topics of consumer and sensory science, has publis...
John Smythe - Find Your Coffee Ice Cream
March 11, 2020 14:06 - 33 minutes - 32.2 MBJohn Smythe works at Amazon as part of their Amazon Insights program, which focuses on delivering insights to Amazon vendors that improve their customer experiences. Prior to that, John worked at Tate & Lyle, where he helped co-author three patents involving taste perception, and prior to that he was with Herbalife where he helped build and globalize a full service sensory program functioning in 18 countries. John specializes in automating and visualizing complex analyses for non-practitio...
Danielle van Hout - Sensory as a Bridge
March 05, 2020 17:46 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBDr. Danielle van Hout is a sensory consultant and founder of DEE-PRIME, an international research and consultancy agency for sensory and consumer research, located in The Netherlands. Danielle is an applied sensory and consumer scientist who enjoys translating academic insights into better practices that benefit FMCG businesses. She collaborates with leading scientists to investigate and develop ecologically valid consumer research methods and effective sensory test methods, optimally sui...
Rebecca Bleibaum - We’re All Individuals
February 27, 2020 15:08 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBBecky Bleibaum, M.A., president and co-founder of Dragonfly SCI, sensory science consultancy with a mission to help entrepreneurially spirited teams, and their products, become more successful in the marketplace. Prior to founding Dragonfly SCI, Bleibaum was the Chief Sensory Officer at Tragon Corporation, working alongside Herbert Stone and Joel Sidel for nearly 30 years, beginning as their first intern while a student at UC Davis under the guidance of Rose Marie Pangborn and Howard S...
Michael Nestrud - Sensory and the Consumer Voice
February 25, 2020 16:56 - 30 minutes - 30.7 MBDr. Michael Nestrud is the founder and president of MNC consulting. Michael's unique point of view stems from his student days at The Culinary Institute of America and Cornell University, where he merged the disciplines of Culinary Arts, Food Science, Computer Science and Psychology to solve problems related to food choice, consumer emotional response, and menu design. Prior to founding MNC, Michael spent the past 10+ years working at government, market research and CPG organizations to de...
Mona Wolf - New Documents for a New World
February 12, 2020 17:23 - 26 minutes - 23.3 MBMona Wolf is a consultant, speaker, and trainer in the application of state-of-the-art sensory techniques. Mona is the President and founder of The Wolf Group, Inc. a private sensory-consulting firm. Mona has over 45 years of knowledge, experience, and practice in the field of sensory evaluations and has served as chair for the main committee of ASTM E-18 on Sensory Evaluation. Mona Wolf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-wolf-23a6696/ Wolf Group: http://wolfgrp.com/ To learn m...
Ludovic Depoortere - A New Decade for Sensory
January 21, 2020 14:23 - 29 minutes - 27.6 MBLudovic is an entrepreneur and keynote speaker on the topics of sensory, marketing, and innovation in research. As chairman and founder of Haystack he supports the world’s leading FMCG, Personal Care, and Healthcare companies with innovations in the area of sensory experience. His passion lays in optimizing consumer experience by using the power of multi-sensory insights to build the connection between emotions and brands. Ludovic has been active in sensory research for over 20 years. ...
Anne Goldman - Sustainability in Sensory
January 16, 2020 18:02 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MBAnne Goldman is an IFT Fellow, a Certified Food Scientist, and has been honored with IFT’s 2016 Sensory and Consumer Sciences Achievement Award. Among other honors, Anne is a recipient of the Honorary David R. Peryam Award for applied sensory science and co-chair of the 14th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium in Vancouver, Canada, in August of this year. A food science graduate of the Universities of London and Leeds Anne began her professional career in the UK food industry, followe...
Lindsay Barr - Focus on Your Business
January 08, 2020 14:28 - 31 minutes - 29.4 MBLindsay Barr has a decade of experience working as a Sensory Specialist for New Belgium Brewing and is a Co-Founder of DraughtLab Sensory Software. She holds a Masters degree in Food Science from UC Davis and served as the chair of the ASBC Sensory Committee for five years where she developed and published seven new beer Sensory methods. She believes flavor is the most important factor in determining food and beverage quality and continues to develop tools focused on helping businesses use t...
Suzanne Jervis - The Value of Sensory
January 06, 2020 14:20 - 30 minutes - 28.7 MBSue Jervis leads a team of fun and passionate researchers who are focused on providing insights for the development of new Members Mark items across all categories. Her team encompasses Insights, Sensory, and Decision Sciences. Through this effort, she’s able to support the entire business to determine their brand, concept, product, and artwork perception from a Member perspective. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-jervis-31377532/ To learn more about Aigora, please v...
Thierry Fahmy - New Frontiers for Sensory
December 23, 2019 14:34 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBThierry is a serial entrepreneur who created XLSTAT in 1993 and who founded Addinsoft, which has been selling XLSTAT since 2000. Along the way, Thierry completed his masters and PhD in statistics and, since 2002, he has worked full time on XLSTAT. Since then Addinsoft has grown to 25 employees operating from both France and Mexico, with 2019 its best year ever and 2020 looking even better. Thierry’s Contact Information: Website: https://www.xlstat.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.li...
Amanda Grzeda - Freedom to Deliver Business Value
December 19, 2019 14:32 - 28 minutes - 25.4 MBAmanda is an R&D director for the Sensory & Consumer Product Insights team at PepsiCo, leading research for global snacks. While collaborating daily with fellow sensory professionals, product developers, and business leaders representing diverse product portfolios from around the world, she ensures that consumer empathy is top of mind for key business decisions. Note: Amanda Grzeda is an employee of PepsiCo, Inc. The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do n...