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Future Foodtech 2024

Designing Healthier Foods for People & Planet
  • May 2022
  • 2 mins read

At Future Foodtech 2024 in San Francisco, sponsored by Egon Zehnder, leaders from across the global food industry for two action-packed days of unmissable industry insights, high-impact networking, start-up pitches, exclusive tastings and live cooking demos in San Francisco.

Many of those leaders took time to sit down with us and share where they see the industry is headed, as well as their thoughts on talent in the space. Alejandro Folmer, Logan McDougal, and Lyapa Nakazwe-Masiya were met with a number of distinguished guests, including:

•    David Marguleas, CEO, Sun World International
•    Richard Pieters, CEO, Pegasus
•    Rodolfo Spielman, President and CEO, NatureSweet

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Alejandro Folmer (Consultant, Egon Zehnder) in conversation with David Marguleas (CEO, Sun World International). David shares insights and challenges of undergoing acquisition and how he has adapted as a CEO.

“We've always thought that it was important to bring people in that had agricultural experience. One of the big takeaways has been to realize that's not always a necessity.”

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Logan McDougall (Consultant, Egon Zehnder) and Richard Pieters (CEO, Pegasus) discuss the challenges of transitioning from product development to securing funding and launching in the market and explore the crucial task of creating a genuine differentiator to enable scalable growth.

“I'm really excited about consumers asking for more quality food based on other proteins. Today, you see very sophisticated questions from consumers, which is an opportunity for the food industry.”

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Lyapa Nakazwe-Masiyawere (Consultant, Egon Zehnder) in conversation with Rodolfo Spielman (President and CEO, NatureSweet), discussing how a purpose-driven company equals a very profitable, growing business and the role technology plays in enhancing agricultural processes.

“It's easy to find talent where the only thing they want to do is to work in a purpose-driven company (…) it’s also easy to find people who are like, ‘Hey, I'm here because we need to make money and it's a profitable company.’ Doing the two things at the same time has been the interesting challenge.”

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