Helen O'Neill
Nina Zoric
Stasa Stankovic
Siwen Pan
Momo Wu
Shannon Theobald
Shannon helps foodtech founders launch and scale *without* working 15+ hour days, so they can get back what they do best - making world-changing products.
Her background is in corporate strategy and merchandising at fortune 50 retailers such as Walmart and Kroger, where she partnered with top CPGs like Tyson, Mondelez, Nestle, Danone, PepsiCo, JBS, Kellogg, Hormel, and more. She has also worked on projects for Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and EY.
Shannon is an alternative protein author (Printing Your Dinner), Podcast Host (Big Food Big Future), speaker, and strategist. She stopped eating meat at the age of 3 when her mother jokingly told her pepperoni was made out of butterfly wings.
Ricarda Dewes
Amy Chen
Amy Chen is the Chief Operating Officer of UPSIDE Foods, the world’s leading cultivated meat company, which is focused on growing delicious meat directly from animal cells. As COO, Amy leads the brand's global strategy and commercial functions, including sales and marketing, finance and operations, product development, food safety and public policy. She's also helping scale the company's culture as it enters this next phase, following the US FDA green light for UPSIDE Foods' cultivated chicken. Prior to joining UPSIDE Foods, Amy was Senior Vice President for PepsiCo Beverages North America. She previously served as the Chief Marketing Officer for PepsiCo Snacks in the Greater China Region, in addition to other sales, operations, strategy and innovation roles. She has an M.B.A. and a J.D. from Stanford University and an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Harvard.
