Food Matters Careers
Meet the experts
Meet our speakers
Ben Greensmith
UK MD – Lord Chocolonely iii, Tony’s Chocolonely

Sebastian Michaelis
Head of Tea, Tata Consumer Products

Lauren Mote
Global Cocktailian, Diageo

Gráinne Allen
Director of Food & Innovation, McDonald’s UK & Ireland

Ben Richardson-Hughes
NPD Technologist, Holland & Barrett

Marta Pajon-Fustes
Head of Technical and Inclusion & Diversity, innocent

Ashleigh Moore
Group Food Safety & Retail Technical Manager, Greggs

Rebecca Norris-Small
Sales leader, Caldic UK
Frankie Siew
Innovation Packaging Manager, little freddie

Aggie Mutuma
Managing Director, Mahogany Inclusion Partners

Mark Sutton
Global Customer Supply Chain Program Manager, Givaudan

Simon Hague
Global LGBTQI Transformation Lead, Tea, Coffee and Cocoa EUM Lead, APME, Kerry

Rebecca Brown
Senior Nutritionist, Marks & Spencer

James Cubbin
Group Head of Engineering (Manufacturing), Morrisons

Andrew Griffiths
Head of Value Chain Sustainability, Nestlé

Joe Yeates
Business Manager, Azelis

Pierre Paslier
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Notpla

Carolyn Adams
Global R&D Director, Jacobs Douwe Egberts

Jacinta George
Managing Director, RSSL

Amy Burns
Course Director, Consumer Management & Food Innovation; Senior Lecturer, Ulster University

Nic Porter
Head of HR, Planet Organic

Aoife McGuigan
Head of Marketing, Suntory Beverage & Food Ireland

David Leigh
Marketing Director, Bernard Matthews

Alex Ruani
UCL Doctoral Researcher and Chief Science Educator, The Health Sciences Academy

Charlie Holt
Activation Marketing Graduate (UK & Ireland), Kerry

Claire Low
Marketing Director Confectionary, Mondelez

Claire Martino
Head of Marketing, Bakkavor

Rhianna Smith
Head of Marketing, Grocery, Deliveroo
Corrine Toyn
Healthcare Professional Relations Manager, Raisio Group

Mark Donovan
Head of Botanicals and Innovation, Tata Consumer Products
Estelle King
Senior HRBP for Agriculture, Moy Park

Louise Sutherland
Director, Ceres Agri-Tech

Lee Boakes
Head of NPD & Innovation, Huel

Rob Brice
Food Consultant, The Cattle Shed and Founder, CRAVE

Nicola Simons
Founder, Single Variety Co

Jason Gibb
Founder, Bread & Jam

Lucy Wager
Product Development Consultant, Co-Founder, Little Bandits; Co-host, Oh For Food’s Sake Podcast, Hungry Little Bandits

Amaeze Madukah
Nutritionist, Life’s Recipe; Co-founder, The Diverse Nutrition Association

Helen Burgess
CEO, Little Cooks Co

Kaly Chatakondu
Commercial Director, AAK International

Constanze Ro
Packaging Development Manager, The Hut Group