Health E-Insights

Neil Sullivan is the director of sales for Kyowa Hakko USA, New York, NY. Kyowa Hakko is a world leader in fermentation, biotechnology and chemical synthesis, offering the highest quality line of amino acids and related ingredients.

Julia Ross, M.A., M.F.T, is the author of the international bestsellers The Diet Cure (new edition, Penguin, 2012) and The Mood Cure (Penguin, 2004), now available in three languages. She has directed The Recovery Systems clinic in Mill Valley, Calif., since 1988, where she and her staff of clinical nutritionist combine with clinical psychology and holistic medicine to address addiction, mood problems, and eating disorders.

Heather Van Blarcom recently joined dicentra and is a licensed attorney with more than 10 years of experience in the natural products industry. As a former general counsel, Van Blarcom brings a pragmatic and well-rounded expertise to issues impacting her clients. She has extensive experience in proactively helping companies achieve compliance with both FDA and FTC regulations including labeling and advertising review, claims review and substantiation, and GMP procedures and audits.

The Caltons are among the world’s leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. Jayson B. Calton, PhD, FAAIM, DCCN, CMS, CISSN, BCIH, ROHP is a fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, diplomate of the College of Clinical Nutrition, Board certified in integrative health and sports nutrition and one of only seven Registered Orthomolecular Health Practitioners in the U.S. Mira Calton, CN, FAAIM, DCCN, CMS, CPFC, BCIH is a licensed certified nutritionist, a fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, diplomate of the College of Clinical Nutrition, a certified personal fitness chef and is board certified in integrative health.

Roy Gliddenis co-founder and vice president of Beanfields, LLC. A 23 year veteran of the natural products industry, Glidden began his career in 1989, teaming up with his brother Reed to start Choice Sales and Marketing in Chicago, where he served as midwest regional sales manager. He later moved to Florida and pioneered the southeast region for Choice, where he served as the southeast regional president of Choice Marketing for ten years. After the sale of Choices’ southeast division, Glidden joined Galaxy Nutritional Foods, Inc. where he served as director of natural sales for seven years, before leaving to rejoin his brother Reed and sister Liza to start Beanfields in January 2011.

Jingshi Joe Zhou is the CEO and co-founder of TSI Group Ltd. in Shanghai, China, established in 1996.TSI Group is a Hong Kong registered global researcher, developer and manufacturer of ingredients and finished products with offices in the US, EU, Australia, Japan, and China.The North American division is based in Missoula, MT. Prior to co-founding TSI, Joe was a senior research scientist at both Amway and Avon. He has an educational background in both China and the United States, and has received advanced degrees in chemical engineering, chemistry, and industrial pharmacy.

Cathy Rosenbaum PharmD, MBA, RPh is a holistic clinical pharmacist and founder and CEO of Rx Integrative Solutions, a private consulting practice in holistic medicine. She is a traditionally trained pharmacist who also focuses on body mind and spiritual (holistic) interventions for healing. Dr. Rosenbaum bases her traditional and non-traditional health and medicine recommendations on a review of published medical clinical literature integrating both professional worlds, and honors the patient/physician relationship with the physician at the helm of the team. Dr. Rosenbaum hosts the weekly talk radio show called Your Holistic Health on WMKV 89.3 FM www.wmkvfm.org (www.FaithandFriendsRadio.com). For more information about Dr. Rosenbaum’s professional philosophy and personalized consultations in person or via telephone/Skype, visit www.rxintegrativesolutions.com.

Richard M. (Dick) Griffin, formed Grifcon Enterprises, Inc. in 2000. A commercial lines insurance broker with over 46 years of experience specializing in products liability insurance, Griffin formed the national Products Liability Insurance Program for the U.S. dietary supplement and natural products industry in 1996. His website is www.GrifconEnterprises.com.

Marc St-Onge is the founder and CEO of Ascenta. He is a renowned expert in the field of omega-3 and formulator of the Ascenta product line. St-Onge passionately pursues the goal of establishing Ascenta as a world leader in health, environmental stewardship and social responsibility. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Robert King is president of Point B Solutions. Previously, and prior to being sold to Wild Flavors in 2011, he was president of A.M. Todd Botanical Therapeutics for seven years, a well-known international botanical extract supplier with manufacturing operations located in North America and Ningbo, China.

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John G. Tobin is the president/CEO and founder of NutraFood Science Delivery System, Inc. (NSDS, Inc.) and co-owner of NutraFood Nutrients, Inc. (NNI). NSDS is the creator of a product line of Strip Melts fast-melting oral strips that are able to stabilize the highest load of active ingredients ever to be assembled in an oral strip product in the world to date.

Nancy Booth, PhD, is a senior science consultant at Spherix Health Sciences Consulting, providing scientific and regulatory support to clients for the purpose of assuring the safety and benefit of their products, and achieving successful outcomes in regulatory approvals and compliance.

Tom Vierhile is the director of innovation insights for Datamonitor. He has more than 20 years of experience in consumer packaged goods reporting and analysis, much of that with Datamonitor’s product launch analytics database of new products.

Dan Souza is a cranberry ingredient expert and the senior director of sales and marketing for Decas Botanical Synergies, LLC (DBS). Mr. Souza has applied his entrepreneurial spirit and sales and marketing expertise to a wide range of industries throughout his 15-year professional career.

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.

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.

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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.