Dr. John Creek
Dr. John Creek – Disruptive Innovation Director - Health
Since 2018 John has led the Health Disruptive Innovation team; responsible to lead health project creation, activation, and acceleration for existing Power Brands across all RB Health categories as well as for new strategic growth initiatives. The highly cross-functional Disruptive Innovation team is RBs internal start-up powerhouse, leading the R&D, marketing, and commercial teams to achieve RBs ambition of ensuring that people worldwide are empowered towards a healthy start, healthy life, and healthy aging.
With a proven rapid route to global markets through RBs substantial scale-up resources the Health Innovation team is leading the advance into Personalization for RB and is establishing partnerships to drive that forward.
John earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University in 2007, joining RB in the same year. Following a series of product development roles in the Germ Protection R&D team John took leadership roles in the Outside Innovation & Disruptive Innovation teams from 2012 through 2017.
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Thomas Aarts
Thomas Aarts is Managing Director of Nutrition Business Advisors (NBA), a company which provides advanced consulting, strategic advising, capital raising, and full-service business development focused on the Global Nutrition Industry. Mr. Aarts sits on several boards, including Vitamin Angels, a non-profit whose mission is to provide vital nutrients to children and women in need. Tom is a graduate of Colgate University and completed his MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Aarts is a high-level management consultant with 22 years of experience working with C-suite executives across the nutrition industry. His experience lies in management consulting, M&A transactions, capital raising and strategic market research. Mr. Aarts co-founded the Nutrition Business Journal (NBJ) in 1996, the business journal of record for the nutrition industry. Through this, he was an integral part of creating many industry-leading reports that helped shape the nutrition industry. Mr. Aarts now serves as Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board for NBJ. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the annual NBJ Summit, a premier CEO/executive retreat for the nutrition and natural products industry, now in its twenty-first year.
Momo Vuyisich
Momo Vuyisich, Ph.D. is the Founding CSO & Head of Clinical Research at Viome. Momo is an entrepreneur-scientist with over 25 years of R&D experience in biology, chemistry, and bioinformatics. He has led large programs, from ideas to successful commercial products.