Corporate Advisory Board

FSTA Corporate Advisory Board 

IFIS has been providing a valuable service for researchers working for food manufacturers for over 50 years. However, the last 10 years have seen radical changes, which have made it harder to locate scientific information that is both relevant and reliable. Relevance has become an issue because general search tools like Google Scholar produce an overwhelming number of irrelevant results. Whilst reliability is a growing problem caused by the proliferation of predatory journals and fake news.

The role of the Corporate Board is to advise the IFIS team on how best to develop information-related services & best practice for scientists working in food manufacturers.


  • Vicky Bellon, Senior Technical & Business Insights Researcher, Land O’Lakes Inc.
  • Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball, Founder, Conscious Impact 
  • John Carter, Area Europe Quality Director, Ferrero
  • Luis Angel Fernandez, Vice President Strategic Development EMEA & International, MANE
  • Mike Knowles, Food Science Consultant
  • Geert Maesmans, Director of Research and Development, Cargill 
  • Professor Dr Gert W. Meijer, Deputy Head, Corporate Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Nestlé
  • Karen Mitchell, Competitive Intelligence, Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing
  • John O’Brien, The Food Observatory
  • Cindy Stewart, Vice President, Open Innovation, Corbion
  • Sabrina Young, Senior Food Scientist, Siete Family Foods

We are undertaking further recruitment . If you are interested and would like to be considered, please contact Fiona Keyte

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