Alejandro Vicente
Alejandro Vicente is currently the SVP, Head of Global M&A at Coty Inc. where he also serves as Chairman of Younique since February 2017. Prior to joining Coty in September 2016, he was Global Head of Consumer Goods Industry at JPMorgan where he worked for 17 years including 8 years as Managing Director and where he worked on more than 40 Consumer Goods transactions across M&A, DCM and ECM in EMEA and globally worth $100bn+. He started his career at Procter & Gamble where he worked for 4 years including in the European Headquarters. He speaks fluently English, Spanish and French.
Wayne Willis
Professor José M Ordovás
Jared Williams
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Fresh Fitness Food is a personalised meal delivery business. We offer nutritionist-designed plans, chef-prepared food and daily delivery to our clients' homes or work. Our mission is to optimise our client's health and well-being through convenience and bespoke nutrition. We achieve this by removing the hassle often associated with healthy eating (no planning, shopping, cooking or cleaning necessary!) and providing our clients with precise, consistent nutrition tailored to their tastes, allergies, lifestyle and goals.
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I have two BIG, long-term goals when it comes to business. The first (let's call it my 10yr plan) is to set up an incubator-accelerator for London startups in the health and fitness, food and tech space. The second (which we can label my 20yr plan) is to set up and run a successful whisky distillery. Providing I love the product and there is enough for my friends and I to drink, this may be the only business I ever start where simply breaking even is acceptable!
Professor Graham Finlayson
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I am a psychobiologist specializing in the role of food choice and food reward in human appetite. The principles of my approach are to examine the relationship between food and eating behaviour in the context of the whole person and to recognise that individual variability in response to food is crucial to understanding appetite control; it is not one size fits all. Eating behaviour is the product of a psychobiological system with influences across diverse scientific domains from genes to the environment rather than processes operating in isolation.
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I'm a keen snowboarder
Professor Barbara Knox
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My research interests are concerned with understanding food related behaviour and span consumer food choice (including sensory factors), nutrient/food mediated psychological functions and attitudes toward food and eating. Most recently, my interests have focussed on understanding the public perspective and consumer response to personalised nutrition. I was part of the EU Food4Me project team which employed a triangulated design to understand public perceptions and attitudes toward personalised nutrition as well as psychological response to the personalised nutrition internet–based intervention. The research results, therefore, are relevant to dietary health promotion and to the food and health industry.
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When not doing research, I can be found in the kitchen, catering for my sons, Conor and Rory, or roaming the north Antrim coast with my dog, Rex.
Jim Kaput
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Maintaining health and delaying disease onset result from complex interactions between genetic makeup, behavior, socioeconomic, and environmental factors. Our multidisciplinary, international teams have been developing a more holistic approach to research summarized as systems nutrition. We use standard and emerging computational methods to integrate and analyze physiological data with measures of diet intake and physical activity while accounting for the built environment and genetic makeup.
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I might qualify for the Tour de France but I would likely stop too often to take photos of scenery, competitors, and onlookers.