Participants
The F3 meeting is an invitation-only meeting where most speakers are also participants.
Speakers attending are listed in the Agenda and noted with an asterisk (*).
Investors
- Aiim Partners (Shally Shanker, Founder & Managing Partner; Ryan Penney, Research Analyst)
- Aqua-Spark* (Tom Prins, Head of Dealflow)
- Big Idea Ventures (Bill Arnold, Director)
- Crux Capital (Lev Mass, Partner)
- CXOConnect AgriVenture Program (Chintan Mehta, Partner)
- For Good Ventures (Kim Kolt, Founder & President)
- Hatch.blue* (Carsten Krome, Managing Partner)
- Hemisphere Ventures (Lisa Rich, Founder)
- HSBC (Geoff Headington, Managing Director, Climate Tech)
- iAccelerate* (Ron Shigeta, Principal)
- Mars Petcare (Rachel Sheppard, Director – Ventures) – Attending Thursday Only
- Newday Impact (Doug Heske, CEO)
- Ocean 14 Capital* (Max Holtzman, Principal / Portfolio Governance)
- Temasek (Sebastien Pascual, Director, Agri-Food and Sustainability Investor) – Attending Tuesday Only
- Unovis Asset Management & New Crop Capital (Dan Altschuler Malek, Managing Partner)
- Woodside Energy* (Jitendra Joshi, Head, Carbon to Products and Alternate Fuels)
Ingredients
- APC Proteins* (Dr. Joe Crenshaw, Vice President of Technical Service)
- Aquanzo (Stefanie Lobnig, Co-founder & CTO)
- Bosar* (Jipeng XUE, Technical Director)
- BRF Ingredients* (Jose Uebi Maluf, Head of BRF Ingredients; Thiago Padilha, Business Development)
- Calysseo* (Adisseo, David Bal, Head of Research Aquaculture Nutrition & Health; Calysta, Allan LeBlanc, VP, Head of Animal Feed)
- Chanzi (Andrew Wallace, Co-founder & CEO)
- Corbion (Janice Wee, VP, R&D, San Francisco)
- Deep Branch* (John Hays, VP of Commercial)
- eniferBio* (Heikki Keskitalo, Business Development Manager)
- Entobel* (Marcel Smits, Director; Cargill Corporation, ex CFO, Strategy Leader and APAC Chairman; Sara Lee, Ex CEO; Gil De Clercq, International Sales Manager)
- Green Plains Technologies (Steve Craig, Senior Nutritionist – Aquaculture)
- Jiangsu Fuhai Biotech Co.* (Zhijun HU, CEO)
- KnipBio (Caitlin Wege, Senior Advisor)
- Laboratoires Phodé (Amine Chaabane, Aquaculture Manager)
- LanzaTech* (Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO; Chad Haynes, Director, Science Strategy)
- Lucta (Helder Rodrigues Pinto, Feed Additives Director Americas)
- Menon Renewables* (Dr. Suresh Menon, President)
- Montana Microbials (Bob Kearns, Managing Member)
- NovoNutrients* (David Tze, CEO)
- Nuseed Nutritional USA* (Pablo Roberto Berner, Aquaculture Business Lead; Katrina Benedicto, Marketing Director; June Yao, Global Regulatory Lead)
- Orffa Additives* (Ruud Van den Berg, New Business Development Manager)
- Phileo by Lesaffre* (Dr. Jean-Benoît Darodes de Tailly, Global Program Manager – Aquaculture)
- Regen Organics (Ani Vallabhaneni, Co-founder)
- Shaivaa Algaetech LLP* (Yashraj Jariwala, CEO)
- Symrise* (Vincent Percier, Marketing & Strategic Development Director, Aqua Feed)
- Thrive Algae Oils* (Jonathan Wolfson, Co-founder and Chairman; Solazyme/TerraVia, Former Co-founder and CEO)
- Unibio (Olivier Hartz, Chief Commercial Officer)
- Veramaris* (Victoria Parr, Business Development Director, North America)
Feed / Farms
- Aller Aqua* (Anders Bylling, Group CEO & Vice President)
- Aqquua (Charles Siebenberg, CEO & Co-founder)
- BioMar* (Vidar Gundersen, Global Sustainability Director)
- BluGlacier (Chris Fream, Vice President Fresh & National Sales)
- Dainichi Corporation* (Makoto Tamaru, CEO; Shinsuke Tamaru, COO; Boyd Way, Director, Foreign Trade Manager)
- eFishery* (Kristin Veriga, Senior Leader of Strategic Feed Initiatives)
- Optimal Aquafeed (Joe Rezek, R&D Manager; Adam Bean, Lab Manager)
- Rangen (David Brock, Aquaculture Nutritionist)
- ShrimpVet & EcoSeafood Group (ESG)* (Dr. Loc Tran, Founder-CEO & Nong Lam University at Ho Chi Minh City, Department of Aquaculture Pathology, College of Fisheries Professor; Ngan Nguyen, ShrimpVet Commercial Director)
- Star Milling (Iva Gaglione, Aquaculture Feed Manager)
- SyAqua* (Dr. Craig Browdy, CTO)
- TwoXSea & McFarland Springs* (Bill Foss, Co-owner; Kenny Bevlov, Co-owner)
- Yuehai Feed Group* (Xuezhi ZHU, Technical Director)
Academics / Scientists
- Charles Darwin University* (Dr. Sunil Kadri, Professor of Tropical Aquaculture)
- Nanyang Technological University* (Dr. Ezequiel Santillan, Senior Research Fellow & Senior Project Manager)
- Dalhousie University School for Resource and Environmental Studies* (Dr. Peter Tyedmers, Professor)
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University* (Chunyu Liu, PhD candidate; Ziyu Jiang, PhD candidate; Yue Liu; PhD candidate)
- Stanford University (Rieko Yajima, Director Drug Discovery Innovation)
- Stanford University Doerr School of Sustainability (Dr. Roz Naylor, William Wrigley Professor in Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at Stanford Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, founding Director at the Center on Food Security and the Environment, and Professor of Economics)
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Jessica Lu, MBA student; Anli Chen, MBA student)
- Texas A&M University* (Dr. Delbert M. Gatlin, Regents Professor & AgriLife Research Senior Faculty Fellow, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology)
- University of Arizona* (Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons, F3 Judge, Past President of the World Aquaculture Society, Dr. Shane Burgess, Vice President for the Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension; Charles-Sander Dean of the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences)
- University of California, Davis (Dr. Jackson Gross, Professor of Cooperative Extension in Aquaculture)
- University of Connecticut (Keegan Jalbert, Undergraduate Research, NSF Innovation Corps)
- University of Massachusetts Boston* (Dr. Michael Tlusty, F3 Judge, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Food Solutions)
- Xiamen University* (Dr. Ling Cao, F3 Judge, Professor)
- Zhejiang University* (Dr. Yan WANG, Professor)
Retailers/Restaurants/Trade Associations
- Bon Appetit Management Company* (Maisie Ganzler, Strategic Advisor, Leadership Team & Author)
- China Aquatic Products Processing and Marketing Association* (Dr. Cui HE, President)
- Common Table Creative* (Oliver English, CEO & Co-founder)
- FultonFishMarket.com* (Mike Tonetti, CEO)
- Seatopia* (Clark Kissiah, COO; James Arthur Smith, Founder)
- Whole Foods (Carrie Brownstein, Global Seafood Quality Standards Coordinator)
NGOs and Consumers
- Anthropocene Institute (Carl Page, Co-founder)
- Eat Real* (Nora LaTorre, CEO & Co-founder) – Attending Tuesday Only
- FINCA International (Iris Sagi, Director of Philanthropy)
- Monterey Bay Aquarium* (Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly, VP of Global Ocean Conservation; Tyler Isaac, Seafood Watch Aquaculture Program Manager)
- Pew Charitable Trusts* (Nikki Bransome, Senior Officer Pew Bertarelli Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean)
- The Center for Responsible Seafood* (George Chamberlain, President)
- The Nature Conservancy (Taryn Stamper, Aquaculture Fellow)
Consultants and Other Participants
- Aquatic Feed Technologies* (Dr. Rick Barrows, F3 CSO, Founder)
- BASF* (Brian Siddons, License and IP Strategy Manager, Biotechnology Innovation Center)
- Cognoscenti LLC* (Dr. Ewen McLean, Principal)
- Global Change Labs* (Banny Banerjee, Founder and Director; Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Adjunct Professor)
- Finless Foods (Michael Selden, CEO & Co-founder)
- JM & Associates (Jeffrey Millard, Founder)
- Popular Biology Inc. (Andy Bass, Co-founder & CEO)
- Novalis Advisors LLC (Thomas Huot, Managing Partner)
- Reefgen Inc (Christopher Oakes, CEO)
- Singularity University* (Dr. Tiffany Vora, Vice Chair of Digital Biology and Medicine; EY Tech University, Faculty at Disruptive Tech Program, GeoTech Center – Atlantic Council, Nonresident Senior Fellow)
- Ko Nishimura, Former CEO, Solectron and son Greg Nishimura, Bariatric Surgeon
Press
- Aquafeed.com (Lucia Barreiro, Editor)
- FishFirst* (Dan LUO, Editor and Senior Media Expert)
F3 Team
- F3 Team Chair, F3 Judge* (Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons, University of Arizona, Professor, World Aquaculture Society, Past President)
- F3 Team Chief Scientific Officer* (Dr. Rick Barrows, Aquatic Feed Technologies, Founder)
- F3 Team (Barbara Page, Ph.D., h.c., Co-founder; Alex Driedger, Website and Technical Support; Brendan Tougher, Manager; Emma Hoffman, F3 Coordinator; Ford Brodeur, Social Media; Keith Edie, Assistant Producer, Micah Brown, Artistic Director)
F3 Judges
- Dr. Michael Tlusty, University of Massachusetts Boston*, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Food Solutions
- Dr. Ling Cao, Xiamen University*, Professor
Service Providers
- Graphic Recording Studio.com (Alece Birnbach, Graphic Recorder/Illustrator)
- Ian Albert Films (Ian Albert, Videographer; Chris Wilson, Videographer)
- Liaisons Meetings & Events (Heather Meaker, Account Manager)
- MAR Communications (Annie Reisewitz, F3 Communications Consultant)