Overview of my career from public talks.

1. PURSUING DREAMS

2. GETTING STARTED IN FOOD

3. HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY

4. GRADUATE SCHOOL
PH.D. AND B.S. FOOD SCIENCE, B.CHE., MINOR IN CHEM.

8. PRIOR EXPERIENCE

9. PRINCIPAL SCIENTIST
Established the Gluten-Free (GF) Initiative at Cargill in 2004
Developed and commercialized high quality GF breads, cookies, and batter-based bakery applications
Justified with Cargill Ventures investment in Alvine Pharma, Inc. (first company dedicated to celiac disease)
Filed 6 patent applications
Manipulated protein and fiber ingredient functionality using extrusion and characterized the
ingredients directly using spectroscopy
Applied the resulting technology successfully in bread and bars
Filed 4 patent applications
Established collaboration with USDA ARS scientists to commercialize new technology
New and natural wheat species
Novel gluten-like proteins and protein subunits
Natural emulsifiers
Leavening replacement systems
Filed 1 patent application
Utilized sensory and moisture sorption analysis to improve the texture and stability of
confectionary inclusions
1 granted patent

12. GLUTEN POLYMER

32. CURRENT ROLE

33. FOUNDATION BACKGROUND
Around the globe organizations are
asking for a change in the food supply to
promote health
The Foundation seeks to develop a
better understanding of what to do as a
society to promote a healthy lifestyle
This work is urgent
In the U.S. alone, 25 million children
are overweight or obese
$14 billion in direct health care costs
A Comparison of Research (# of Articles in PubMed) for
Fruits and Vegetables, Soy, and Whole Grains
from 1900-present

34. DIRECTOR OF SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS
I was the catalyst of the initial rapid growth phase of the Foundation
More specifically:
Completed first draft of business plan
Developed and facilitated short-term grant strategy
Wrote Annual Report
Grew corporate partnerships
Convened and facilitated quarter 1 of the Development, Delivery, & Consumption committees
Organized Nov. 2009 School Nutrition Workshop
Wrote job description
Wrote Whole Grain review article with Dr. Julie Miller Jones
Wrote monthly Status Reports on work to corporate partners

35. COOPERATIVE ACTION AND EMERGENT BEHAVIOR
FROM A BROAD VISION AND VAST NETWORK
3. Entrepreneurial opportunities
A. Grain Research in food development and delivery
•Development
•Delivery
1. Reduction of diet-related •Consumption 3
illness, and in particular
child obesity 1
D
C. Developing
B. Institutional Communities
Nutrition 2
•School Nutrition
•Eldercare
•Fast Food
2. Novel approaches to feeding people in need
D. Sustainable training
--development of visionary leaders who can manage issue-based research opportunities

36. BIOLOGICAL ENDPOINT
QTL-MAPPING
Parents
Given a wheat population consisting of essentially all of the different
combinations of genes for a set of parents, locate a fragment of genetic
material (a locus or position) and that is highly correlated to the biological
endpoint (the biomarker of disease) using statistics
Plant genes at or near a marker locus can be studied to understand the
cause and effect relationship between plant bioactives and a biological
endpoint
It is quite likely that several QTLs for a given biomarker of disease will be
discovered
This effort could spawn decades of nutritional studies with different
biological endpoints, plants, processing variables, etc.

37. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Technical Program Chair of 2009 Annual Meeting
Took AACC Int meeting model from red or near red to +100k black

38. WHY ME FOR THIS ROLE
My experience has been that new technology begets new technology, and this provides the basis for unique
customer solutions. My primary mode of consulting both internally and externally is to seek out others and
ask questions. I constantly offer the perspective of the food scientist and the bakery application scientist,
and this is valuable because it moves basic science from theory to application. I find great satisfaction in
enabling other people to shine. I have been told that I have a talent for bringing different parts of internal
and external organizations to bear on a project. In this regard, I function as the prime mover of a project. I
know that I feel great passion when I can make connections (people, ideas, and technologies).
From a scientific standpoint, I believe that it is important to structure research in a way that addresses past
research and pushes boundaries by bringing something new to the table. People seem more open to
possibilities that they do not fully understand if there is something familiar at the starting point. I have also
tried to adopt an approach to R&D that incorporates both quick fixes and long-term research plans in a
given project.
Finally, I am building a strong network of organizational and industry relationships. The purpose of these
networks is to bring together men and women from around the world to review the new data affecting our
science, strive to reach consensus, and develop campaigns that the media can sell and thereby improve
society. Our systems of study are complex and thus necessitate an integrative scientific agenda; we often
work at the boundary among disciplines. Ten years ago, I remember listening to professionals talk about
tracing cause and effect relationships from the farm to the plate. Today we are thinking from the field to the
feces and we recognize a more significant impact of food on health. I believe that this is one of the most
significant issues facing industry today.

39. QUESTIONS?