How to Handle Trade-Offs Between Quality, Safety and Costs especially in the Context of a Post-COVID Recession?

After the graduation in Economics at Università Bocconi and a Master of Science in International Public Policy at UCL (University College London), Matteo joined The Monitor Group, a strategy consulting firm, supporting companies' business development in EMEA. He joined Barilla in 2008 and moved from Marketing to Innovation in 2012 to develop and launch CucinaBarilla, which he led as the CucinaBarilla Managing Director. In 2018 he was appointed Global Marketing Director at Barilla, leading of the most dynamic and vibrating product categories of the company with a global footprint. He is passionate about Food, business modelling, trends and innovation. He will be chairing the Food Innovate Summit for the second time and attending it for the third time.

Philip earned his PhD in biochemistry from CU Boulder in 2014. Upon graduating, he raised start-up capital to research and develop algae-based food ingredients as a co-founder of Boom Algae. From 2017 – 2020, Philip served as the Director of Quality, Research and Product development at Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha where he built the company’s Food Safety and Quality program, their patent-pending fermentation strategy and helped scale their process as they grew from local to national presence in grocery and food service. Philip has been with Meati Foods since January 2021 where he serves as their Senior Quality Engineer. He is developing Meati’s Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory program while working in collaboration with other Meati Food Scientists and Engineers to design and validate new processes and procedures as the company scales up to meet demand. Through the years, he has gained experience with a variety of micro-organisms used in fermentation while developing methods to assess product quality and safety in-process and at the end of process.