Ein Blick auf den Food Tech Campus

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As a passionate natural scientist, Sarah supports companies from Germany and the EU in questions concerning national and international funding programs, in applying for funding and in project support in order to advance innovative products and developments.

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Syster has over 20 years of experience in packaging design for the FMCG markets (food / non-food / cosmetics / pharma / technic etc.). Two years ago she founded her own studio and now, with her team, they manage and develop national and international projects in the field of packaging innovation, packaging design and structural design. Their focus is on future-oriented and sustainable projects that are suitable for the masses.

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Matthias is a Freelance Marketing Strategist. His ambition is to help accelerating the transition towards a sustainable economy. Having 14 years of experience in MarCom where mostly short-term financial growth was reigning, he wants to prove that you can be profitable and socially and environmentally responsible at the same time.

As strategist for sustainable growth, he can help you shape your sustainability story and brings in innovative thinking and a network of innovators to collaboratively work as agents of change for the sustainability transformation.

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Sebastian is an expert in all aspects of winemaking. He also has an extensive team in support with expert knowledge about brewing, juices, fruitwines and related beverages.

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Martin is a food and agriculture expert, specialist in sourcing and quality management aspects. He has long-time experience along the Agri-supply-chain (from production, logistics, warehouse management to retail and strategic brand management) including international experience. Martin started his career with a commercial education, business school, several years of working experience abroad in the fields of trading and production, a Bachelor degree in agricultural engineering and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in international agricultural management.

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Sascha founded the first ERP application for Apple Macintosh in 1989 at the age of 20 and is now working for WhiteSheep as a consultant for SAP Business One since 2018. There, he supports Business One users in Berlin and Brandenburg, especially startups.

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Neeraj is a foodtech entrepreneur and investor, who cofounded Sprig in the United States. Sprig is a food delivery startup that raised $60M and scaled to 1,200 employees. Neeraj is currently running a food-focused venture capital in Berlin backed by the Bahlsen family.

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Paul Schwinges has a comprehensive knowledge of connected systems and extensive experience in the field of production. His area of responsibility includes examining the supply chain from the supplier to the consumer.

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Nicole has a background in food technology and works as director of Business Development and Marketing at bilacon. She is the right person for any quality and health assurance topics you have regarding your product.

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Insa is an avid foodie herself with more than a decade of experience in the industry. Coming from product management and classical marketing in various FMCG companies, she is now responsible for Open Kitchen, a place where founders meet established companies at eye level and offer start-up support as well as an Innovation Lab.

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Judith strongly believes in the power of strong people strategy at the heart of every business and she is happy to help you with all things people: recruiting, employer branding and leadership.

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Conradin has run hundreds of Open Creation- and Innovation Projects for big food & beverage brands like Coca-Cola, Dr. Oetker, Radeberger Group, Henkell Sektkellerei, Hero Group, Nestlé, Ricola, Ritter Sport, Lindt&Sprüngli or Unilever. His creative and strategic experience extends to retail-brands, food-services and food-related products like Villeroy&Boch tableware or Victorinox kitchen knives.

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Zoltan is a business developer and manager with over 20 years experience in general management, marketing, sales and supply chain with multinational blue chip organizations. With life and work experience in Peru, USA, France, Mexico, Poland and Germany, he has developed brands such as Kraft, Philadelphia, Marlboro, Jacobs Krönung, KFC, Pizza Hut and Starbucks among others. Furthermore, Zoltan served on various corporate management boards for 8 years. My competencies include new business development, strategic marketing, project planning and a strong multicultural, multilingual and multifunctional background. Currently, Zoltan is head of Food Service Business Development for the Martin Bauer Group.

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Daniel, manager of Food Logistics at DACHSER in Berlin, has over 25 years of experience in the field of food logistics.
Durch über 25 Jahre Erfahrung im Bereich der Food Logistics sind mir die Herausforderungen aller Beteiligten sehr gut bekannt.

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Meike is an enthusiastic entrepreneur and innovation-driven nutritionist with many years experience in food law. After several years of in-house consulting in food law for an international organization based in Germany, Meike founded QuickCheck Consulting. Herewith, she supports food startups and young companies with product labeling, claims and certification. From the original idea to product launch she is your partner.

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Stefani has 10 years experience in driving foreign-brands localization in China, in Unilever, Hershey's, General-mills and fast-scaling food start-up. Inspired by a business she worked with, which has zero in-store presence in UK, but over hundred million business in China, she is now helping founders to build China market-entry with established network and knowledge.

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Linda loves honest and authentic food! In fact, these food products which are not enough noticed by consumers and deserve to get more attention. After 12 years of product marketing experience, Linda launched, optimised and deleted many food products. With her consultancy, Wert & Ehrlich, she follows her desire to grow consumer attention by supporting start-ups around the subjects of product strategy (e.g. target group, recipe & tasting, design check, etc.), sell-in story and analysis of market and competitors to find the right product strategy for your product.

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Lea is a nutritionist (MSc.) with many years of experience in the field of frozen foods and the frozen food industry. Her focus is on quality management and food safety of frozen products along the supply chain, food technology issues and food law. She also deals with all nutrition-relevant issues (nutrition-physiological value, nutrition trends in the frozen food sector) as well as the topic of sustainability.

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Stefan Haas founded #PoDojo to help people develop products that customers love. He coaches innovation teams in large companies and start-ups to accelerate the path to products that fit their market. As a licensed trainer for Management 3.0, he teaches leadership in agile leadership and lean innovation at Quadriga University Berlin. Stefan is passionate about finding new and more entertaining ways to collaborate in the complex world of digital services and product innovation. Stefan speaks at public events and organizes two of the largest agile product meetings in Berlin.

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Toni and Lars offer a variety of design options without losing sight and love for the details. They ensure a uniform design language across all your communication channels.

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Hendrik talks and writes about food, the food culture and an eatable future.
As a communication designer and consultant he supports institutions, politics and companies on their way to successful communication and innovation.
He also in an activist, artist and networker and asks questions, brings people together and rolls stones.

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Since 2010, Markus Rüther has been responsible for design concepts within the EDEKA Group at EDEKA AG in Hamburg. Together with his team, he designs everything from individual modules to complete furnishing concepts for EDEKA stores that is necessary for the presentation of goods and a pleasant market atmosphere, from consulting to floor plan concepts to individual design solutions and overall concepts.
As a mentor he can help you with all questions concerning the presentation of new products, the perfect position in the market and has many ideas where and how individual products can be placed.

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Elke has over 10 years of experience in the R&D food industry. Here, she has gone through all the steps of product development from the first idea to the first production and evaluation. She has already worked with many raw material and is now responsible for applied research, innovation and support of food industry companies in her current position as head of the food technology group at Fraunhofer.

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During the last decade, Marcel has worked in companies of various stages and sizes, such as Groupon, Quandoo and EDEKA. As former founder and managing director (Move24), he has a lot of experience in building up start-ups from scratch.

With his EDEKA experience, he is the perfect fit for F&B and food tech entrepreneurs and their challenges.

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Annaberth is an expert in global food safety & quality management systems. She has a broad experience and background in (chilled) food supply chains, supplier and operations management, labelling and food fraud.

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Felix is an experienced Food Entrepreneur and Co-Founder and Managing Director of purefood GmbH.

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Marco is a former university lecturer and researched and taught media, literature and brands and then worked as a copywriter and concepter in a Hamburg advertising agency. So his expertise is brand positioning and communication.

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Heiko is a successful founder and expert in Retail. He knows the opportunities and challenges of food startups very well as he has built one himself in the last 6 years (koawach).

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Dominic Blank is an entrepreneur and founder of technology startups in software and Internet technology, primarily in the retail sector. He is currently Managing Director of POSpulse, a mobile crowdsouring firm that digitizes market research processes and enables insight generation in real time through an intelligent platform. He is an expert in lean startup and validation of business models.

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Franziska is a Digital Strategist at WallDecaux, she provides expertise in the field of branding and in the implementation of effective and effective campaigns (including for various FMCG brands). In addition, she looks after the WallDecaux start-up program "Nurture". In close cooperation with the startups tailor-made out-of-home campaigns are supervised and realized.

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Sebastian is the founder of Thomas Henry & Belsazar.

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Eike is a strategist with 8 years of professional experience in international corporations in the service sector. He has excellent skills in the areas of business analysis and development and is a retail digitization enthusiast.

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Heike has many years of professional experience on the agency side. She has over twelve years of experience with Jung von Matt in different positions.

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As the founder of TRY FOODS, Jörn has been involved in various pitches, corporate presentations, interviews as well as TV appearances. Prior, to working in the food startup area, he worked in Marketing, PR and sales, non-profit in an international context. He also held various leadership seminars & workshops as well as many public speaking gigs. In addition to that he is also Co-Founder of Zeevi Kichererbsen.

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Adrian ran the biggest operations of HelloFresh in North America. After that, he founded his own startups and is working as CEO of EatFirst today.

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Vanessa has experience in the field of sustainable and healthy food and cosmetic products. She also knows about conscious consumers such as vegans or vegetarians and can help with the evaluation of food additives and nutritional values.

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Elmar has been working in Venture Capital for over 10 years helping entrepreneurs grow great companies. He currently runs the European VC Division of Macquarie Capital. Examples of successful food start ups he has been involved with include Lieferando (Germany), Takeaway.com (Netherlands) and FoodByUs (Australia).

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Eric is an experienced concept & business developer, with a strong focus on Out of Home concepts, brand-building and retail operations. Worked for international brands, Magnum, Ben&Jerry, Barry Callebaut, Danone, der Vegetarische Metzger, Langnese Swirl’s.

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Matthias knows how to grow a brand successfully and how communication can help to promote this growth.

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David is a Food Designer, Marketing Specialist, Story Teller, Gourmet and Brand Maker. He has an expertise in Frozen Food.

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Mirco knows how digital change can be successfully implemented in your company. He is also an ambassador at GISEP (German Israeli Startup Exchange Program).

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Nicolas has his main experience as wholesaler for dried food products. This brings experience with food regulations (EU1924/2006 & EU432/2012), import/export specially Europe & Asia, quality management (ifs), fast product testing (mvp approach).

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Jürgen has over 26 years experience in food chemistry. He knows everything around and can help you with all kinds of questions about "Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung".

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Gregor is an expert in strategic procurement and negotiation. He has his core area primarily on Insights at decision-making in big companies and can give you advices here.

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Gerald is a communication professional and networker. He founded the Berlin agency Schröder + Schömbs PR and as a business angel, he is also involved in the topic of food.

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Marco is an expert for product development of pos systems, ERP for retail and business intelligence for retail & wholesale.

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Sebastian is a financial expert for interim management for digital companies in high-growth or distressed situations. Besides he is the CFO of the opinion research institute Civey.

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Enrico knows how to approach technical topics in a strategic manner. He has also experience as a founder.

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Nicolas is MD of Oysterbay - a food & beverage VC fund investing in later-stage FMCG, foodtech and agtech companies. Prior to Oysterbay Nicolas spent 3.5 years with Veganz in various management roles helped to build the brand from 2 Mio. to 40+ Mio. in revenue until end of 2016.

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Thomas Andersen has 22 years experience of sales and marketing in the FMCG industry and 14 years of business consulting for founders and startups. He knows how a good business plan should look like and a good pitch deck.