RE:RTI is growing from 4 bio-chemists and lab technicians to 24Don't forget, the addition of the heavy-hitters in the Global Health & Wellness Solutions team too: Christine O'Neil is joining the RTI Global Health and Wellness Solutions team as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and has been assigned the responsibility of building the RTI Global Health and Wellness brand. She has held significant business development and senior executive positions over the past 30 years for firms such as: Johnson & Johnson, BASF/Cognis, Hoechst/Nutrinova, DSM/Tosoh, Chromocell Corporation, Ajinomoto and Dow Chemical. In these roles, she has had the responsibility for managing organizations and developing and launching new business platforms in the health & nutrition, biotechnology and specialty ingredient markets with leading firms such as: The Coca-Cola Company, Nestle, Kellogg, PepsiCo, Wrigley/MARS, Danone, General Mills and many others.
David Lafond comes to the RTI Global Health and Wellness Solutions team as Managing Director, Global Innovation with almost 40 years of experience in food research and development. He will be engaged with building an innovation pipeline for the Corporation through new opportunity discovery. Over his successful career, he worked for Kraft, Quaker Oats, Keebler and the Kellogg Company. He holds a Ph.D. in Food Science from Michigan State University where he studied physical properties of fiber and related them in clinical work to hormonal signaling for appetite control. He also has an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School with emphasis in finance and marketing.
Jean-Pierre ("JP") Montmayeur joins RTI Global Health and Wellness Solutions as Director, Innovation. JP will be tasked with supporting the build out of the innovation pipeline as well as corporate development activities. His recent role was novel ingredient research as a Senior Scientist at The Cola-Coca Company. JP has over 15 years of experience in bioscience research and technology exploration from both academia and the food and beverage industry. He began his professional career as a principal investigator with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) where he built a research laboratory investigating taste detection mechanisms. JP has co-authored numerous scientific publications and book chapters on the chemosenses such as smell, taste and nociception. JP holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology form the University of Strasbourg in France.
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