Health E-Insights

David Wood joined Captek Softgel International in Cerritos, CA, as CEO in March 2011. With more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including soft gel contract manufacturing at the executive level at Cardinal Health/R.P. Scherer, Mr. Wood is adept at building high performing executive teams and leading international manufacturing and service organizations with full P&L responsibility.   Read More »

Gwendolyn Kent is currently consulting for, TNC LLC, Nutrition 21 and GLM, licensing global patents through internationally recognized research institutes including Karolinska Institutet, Maastricht and Harvard to develop and market nutraceuticals with clinical documentation for direct-to-consumer ingredients, as well as mass market positioning.  Read More »

As president and COO of Coromega, Frank Morley manages all strategy, corporate development and operations for the company. Mr. Morley brings more than 30 years of experience in marketing, strategic planning, and operations to his position at Coromega…  Read More »

Darryl Sullivan is the director of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Nutrition Chemistry and Food Safety Division at Covance Laboratories. Mr. Sullivan acts as the primary liaison with food, nutritional and dietary supplement companies as well as providing expertise on designing comprehensive testing programs to meet scientific and regulatory requirements.  Read More »

Adam Ismail has served as the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3’s (GOED) first executive director for more than five years and oversees all organizational development for new and existing members.  Read More »

Edward Lee, PhD, is president and founder of AIDP, Inc. Founded in 1996, AIDP has grown to one of the largest ingredient suppliers to the dietary supplement industry.   Read More »

Darin Skaggs is the director of services at Darwin Chambers Co. with responsibility for the service department, after-market parts, quality control and the IT department.   Read More »

Carl Hyland is director of membership development for the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). Mr. Hyland has more than 25 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing and operations within the dietary supplement, ingredients and natural foods industries.   Read More »

Chris Oesterheld is assistant vice president with Parsippany, NJ-based Jiaherb, an NSF-GMP certified manufacturer of quality herbal extract and natural ingredients for the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food and beverage industries.  Read More »

Steven Dentali, PhD, is chief science officer at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) where his duties include helping to set quality standards for the botanical products industry and providing guidance and advice to AHPA member companies, related organizations, government agencies, scientific publications and the popular press.   Read More »

Ephi Eyal is the president and CEO of IFP, Inc. a multiple site manufacturing company whose 200 employees are committed to leadership in powdered product innovation for the food and nutraceutical industries.   Read More »

Marketing director Shaheen Majeed knows Sabinsa from the ground up. When he was just 17, Mr. Majeed began in the warehouse of the company his father founded in 1988, followed by a stint in customer service. He then handled a variety of sales positions, which included Tri-State region sales, California sales manager and Latin American business development, a responsibility he still handles in addition to his role as marketing director.   Read More »

Nancy Childs, PhD, is professor of food marketing in the Erivan K. Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. She has more than 100 publications, proceedings and book chapters addressing nutrition marketing and health claim policy, obesity and consumer and commercialization issues with functional foods.   Read More »

Rhonda Witwer is the senior business development manager of nutrition for National Starch Food Innovation, based in Bridgewater, NJ. She manages Hi-maize resistant starch and Hi-maize whole grain flour for the North American market for National Starch and was responsible for building recognition for natural resistant starch’s important health benefits in glycemic health and weight control within the food industry and health professional communities.   Read More »

Rakesh Amin is a partner at the Chicago-based law firm of Amin Talati. Amin practices Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), U.S. Customs, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and related regulatory and litigation matters.   Read More »