Trajche Dimitrovski is a renowned sensory expert in the food and beverage industry, with more than a decade of experience in sensory evaluation and sensory testing. He has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and physiology and a master’s degree in Plant production. He has worked with various companies in the confectionery industry, providing guidance on […]
Category: Previous Conference Presentations
Rafael Fernandes, Cerealto Siro Foods: How to Be Successful as an NPD
Rafael Fernandes is a passionate professional in the biscuit and confectionery industry, with over 15 years of experience in product development, innovation, and project management. He is Head of R&D at Cerealto Siro Foods, a global company in the agri-food sector that is dedicated to the developing and manufacturing cereal derivatives products for retail and […]
Angeliki Petsa, Unismack SA: The “Art” of Developing and Producing Nutritionally Rewarding, Allergen-Free Snack Crackers
Angeliki Petsa is a Senior Food Scientist with a passion for innovation and sustainability in the food industry. She has been a member of the strategic leadership team at Unismack since 2014, initially involved in the commercial growth of key export markets (Europe, Australia, South Africa) and nowadays overseeing all aspects of customer services and […]
Berislav Znidarcic, NielsenIQ: Building for the Future
Berislav Žnidarčić has a long-standing career in the biscuit industry. He has a lot of experience working in various positions in one of the largest biscuit factories in Southeast Europe. Throughout his career, he has gained extensive knowledge and expertise in all aspects of biscuit production, Berislav joined NielsenIQ in 2015 and for the past […]
Anna Bednarek, The Bahlsen Family: Making Best Biscuits – Main Challenges & Troubleshooting In Biscuits Manufacturing
Anna Bednarek is a food technologist and consultant with over 14 years of experience in the biscuit industry. Bednarek is currently an R&D Product Development Manager for The Bahlsen Family- BU CEE and she gave a presentation titled “Making the Best Biscuits – Main Challenges & Troubleshooting In Biscuits Manufacturing “, at the Biscuit People […]
Jose Carlos Azevedo, Kellogg Company: Biscuit Cream Filling Technology
Jose Azevedo is a food engineer with over 30 years of experience in the food industry, with a focus on biscuit manufacturing. He has worked for major food companies such as Nestle and Mondelēz and is currently a Snacks Product Development Manager at Kellogg Company. He has published numerous articles on biscuit manufacturing and is […]
Aliette Verel, Former Principal Scientist in Mondelez: 4 Major Structural Components to Make All Types of Biscuits
Aliette Verel is a biscuit industry professional with over 25 years of experience working for leading global companies in the field. She has a strong background in research and development, innovation, and production management, and she is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge and expertise with others in the industry. Aliette gave a presentation at our […]
Andreea Bonis and Matthew May, Kerry: Sustainable Nutrition and its Implications in Bakery
Matthew May is the Bakery Sales Manager for the EMEA region at Kerry Group, a leading taste and nutrition company that provides innovative ingredients and solutions to food and beverage manufacturers worldwide. He has over 30 years of experience in the food industry, with a particular focus on the bakery sector. Matthew works closely with […]
Gwen Gould, Tirlán “Who’s eating your lunch?” What consumers want and what we can learn from competing categories
Gwen Gould is Senior Marketing Manager, Dairy Ingredients at Tirlán. Gwen is passionate about consumers and understanding what drives them which led her to a career in Marketing and Innovation. As part of the Tirlán team, Gwen is bringing the consumer and customer voice to the fore of all B2B activities, supporting manufacturers overcome their […]
Marta Ferluga and Jamie Blake, Synergy Flavours: Reformulating bakery products with innovative solutions to address consumer needs
Marta Ferluga is a skilled top-notes and Dairy flavours application technologist at Synergy’s R&D bakery and sweets products department. Her primary responsibilities include finding the best solutions to meet market demands, growing new trends, and developing innovative proposals. Recently, Marta and her colleague Jamie Blake presented their innovative solutions for bakery applications at a conference. […]
Pedro Díaz Molins, Zukán: Sugar Reduction With Fibers in Biscuits
Pedro Diaz Molins is a food engineer and technologist with over 15 years of experience in the biscuit and bakery industry. He has been working on the development of sweetening ingredients from sugar for more than half his life. Currently, the lines of research that are being followed are very focused on the Clean Label, […]
Dr. Isabel Trogh, BENEO: Improvement of nutritional & technical properties of biscuits
Dr. Isabel Trogh started her career as R&D Manager Patisserie Mixes, followed by R&D Manager Nutrition, both at Puratos (Belgium). Since January 2013, Isabel is working as Customer Technical Support Manager within the BENEO-Technology Center at BENEO in Belgium. She has a background in nutrition and has been working in the food industry for over […]
Igor Riccardi, CEPI, The dosing of materials: customization, automatization and circularity
Igor Riccardi came from Italy to present us the method CEPI developed through three decades of experience in designing dosing systems that match a thorough analysis of each food manufacturer’s materials, processes, site, environment, and consumptions. The discussion touched on all related issues such as automation and material tracking, research and food technology processes, and […]
Eric Schaller, Anéolia: Preservation of Product
Eric Schaller is the Director of International Sales at Aneolia, a French company specialized in gas analysis technology. With over 20 years of experience in the field of gas analysis and quality control, Eric Schaller is a recognized expert in the industry. Packaging industry is under pressure of environment preservation, plastic conversion, food waste, safety […]
Alberto Trezzi, IMA Eurosicma – part of the IMA FLX HUB: Turn-key solutions for the biscuits industry
Unfortunately, Roberto Spatolisano couldn’t join us this year so his colleague Alberto Trezzi presented instead. His lecture was about leading-edge technologies from handling, primary and secondary packaging up to end-of-line solutions to satisfy any packaging configuration demand. Alberto Trezzi is a Project Manager at IMA Eurosicma, an innovative division of IMA Group that provides turn-key […]
Joe Pocevicius, Reading Bakery Systems: Oven Sustainability in Biscuit Baking
Joe Pocevicius joined Reading Bakery Systems (RBS) in 2012 as a Project Manager and is currently working out of the Netherlands as RBS’s Sales Manager for Europe, CIS, UK, and Turkey. Joe has extensive experience in the bakery machinery industry both from an equipment, and a process perspective. As a Project Manager and a Sales […]
Denis Treacy, Culture Compass: Zero Defect Biscuit Manufacturing
Our first speaker at the conference was our keynote speaker Denis Treacy from the United Kingdom. Denis Treacy is well known throughout the Food Industry as an engaging, driven & decisive Executive Leader with 40 years of FMCG industry experience, the first 10 years in scientific roles, and the last 30 years in Management, Leadership, […]