Established Nutrition and Dietary Supplement Industry experts with 20+ years of combined academic/industry experience in leading human nutrition research, R&D strategy, scientific evaluation and communication, claims substantiation, product innovation and renovation, development and formulation. Expertise includes medical training with in-depth knowledge of nutrition, food science, herbs/botanicals consumer health, dietary ingredients and supplements, regulatory sciences, and clinical trials. Successfully integrated scientific knowledge with consumer trends to deliver technical solutions and innovate health-based products as well as healthy ingredients, and compelled nutrition strategies to enhance global sales of nutritional and dietary supplements for some of the world's largest nutrition and food companies.
- Product strategy, pipeline development, continuous
improvement
- Product design and development, formulation creation
- Product prototyping and piloting
-Product positioning, and consumer insights
- Product costing and financials, and competitive analyses
- Intellectual property development
- Commercialization and scale-Up
- Label reviews, label development
- Health claims, content claims, structure/function claims, and marketing content review and development
- Scientific research summaries and reports
- Technical and scientific reviews
- Clinical research and trials design, protocol development, study monitoring, data analysis, and manuscript writing
- Scientific and technical reviews and validations of ingredients and products
o Human efficacy
o Mechanism of actions
o Biological activity
o Safety
o Dose
- Regulatory status assessment
o ODI (Old Dietary Ingredients)
o NDI (New Dietary Ingredients)
o GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe)
o Certified organic (NOP), Non-GMO, Natural
- Regulatory support for dietary supplements, foods, and ingredients
- Regulatory audits and compliance assessments
- Safety assessments
- Source and qualify bulk raw materials
- Testing and analysis
- Material specifications
- SDS (Safety Data Sheets)
- Laboratory qualification
- Certificate of Analysis review and approval
- Supply chain development and assessment
- cGMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) for dietary supplements
- Manufacturing feasibility
- Audit inspection preparation and support
- Quality assurance support, and documentation
- Quality audits, compliance
- Technical document development
- Vendor relations, negotiations