Co-Founder and CEO
Ārepa

Angus Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Ārepa, a brain-food technology company working at the nexus between nature, neuroscience and food technology to make the world’s smartest food. Before Ārepa, Angus worked for the New Zealand government in food technology at the world-renowned $30m modular food factory, The FoodBowl, helping large and small companies alike develop and launch new products to market.

Director of Insights
Lumina Intelligence

With 18+ years experience in tracking health and wellness, microbiome and e-commerce trends, Ewa offers a unique perspective and expertise on the probiotic marketplace and its growth opportunities. Ewa is in charge of the content for Lumina Intelligence, a business intelligence service from William Reed. Prior to that Ewa managed the global Health and Wellness, Nutrition and Ethical Labels industries at Euromonitor International. Ewa spends most days developing data platforms and market insights to inform business strategies. Ewa is also a sought after industry speaker and has also been involved in judging nutraceutical product awards. Ewa has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Poznan, Poland and has also studied postgraduate Marketing at the University of Westminster in London.

Founder & CEO
The 6AM Agency

Gillian Fish is the Founder of The 6AM Agency, a creative communications agency with a deep heritage in earned (PR) and owned and a specialisation in Wellbeing and Good Living. She is the author of Good + Well: 25 World Experts Share their Secrets to Wellbeing (Feb, 2017) as well as Resilience. Body. Mind. Soul (2020) and three white papers on Wellbeing, Digital and Fertility Marketing.

Gillian is acknowledged as one of Australia’s foremost experts in integrated Wellbeing & Good Living communications, with deep experience in bringing complementary medicine – OTC and Practitioner, Nutraceuticals and Raw Material suppliers - to marked. She has worked with some of the world’s leading brands in evidence-based wellbeing including Organic, Sustainable, Natural, Complementary Therapies, OTC, Fitness, Nutrition, Beauty, Medical and Retail across earned and owned.

With a global Wellbeing network, Gillian is proud to work with some of the world’s leading health and medical experts and brand leaders in Preventive Health & Wellbeing and Nutraceuticals.

Gillian is a regular speaker and contributor at industry conferences and in journals both within Australia and around the globe. The client based extends around the globe including Australia, Asia, Japan and the United States, delivering earned-centric, digital by design creative communications in an audience-first mobile driven world.

CEO and Founder
SleepDrops International

Kirsten Taylor is the leading Naturopathic Sleep Specialist in New Zealand, Director of the Sleep and Wellness Centre and CEO and Founder of SleepDrops International. Kirsten has over 20 years experience as a sleep coach, in treating sleep disorders, researching and sleep aid product development. Kirsten is passionate about sleep and the far reaching benefits it can have on our ability to thrive and live long, healthy and happy lives.

Director
Blackmores Institute

Dr Lesley Braun is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (Western Sydney University) and has held research positions at The Alfred Hospital, Monash University. She was Vice President of the National Herbalists Association of Australia, an Academic Board Member of Endeavour College, and former member of key industry groups including the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council, Advisory Committee for Complementary Medicine (TGA), the Advisory Committee for the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association, and the National E Health Transition Authority (NeHTA) medicines terminology group.

Lesley is a current member of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia’s Complementary and Integrative Therapies Group Executive, Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australia-China Business Council Health, and Medical Research working group, plus on the course advisory committees for nutrition at Endeavour College and the Think Group. She is the main author of four best-selling textbooks Herbs and Natural Supplements – an evidence based guide, founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Advances in Integrative Medicine, and a regular columnist for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy.

Fellow
Institute of Food, Brain and Behaviour (Oxford)

After graduating summa cum Laude in pharmaceutical pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh, Paul spent the next 30 years studying the more promising (and safer) realm of natural pharmacology. A former chair of the Forum on Food & Health at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, he is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Food, Brain & Behaviour, Oxford. His interests include the aetiology and management of chronic inflammation in the body, large bowel and oral cavity; and the modulation of innate immune function.

University of Newcastle

Peter is Emeritus Professor in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Newcastle and an honorary/adjunct professor at the University of Southern Queensland, University of Adelaide and University of South Australia. Formerly Chair of the TGA’s Advisory Committee for Complementary Medicines and founding Editor in Chief of Nutrients, he is a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Australia and the International Society of Hypertension. His preclinical and clinical research in nutrition, cardiovascular physiology and preventive health has underpinned health claims for functional foods and nutraceuticals.

Founder and Food Scientist
Asmara

Ramesh is the Founder and Food Scientist at Asmara®. He also serves on the Board of Directors at *SCAPE SG and is a Mentor at Temasek Polytechnic. Ramesh graduated with a Bachelor (Hons.) and Master of Food Technology (Dist.) from Massey University (New Zealand) and a Diploma in Food Science and Nutrition from Temasek Polytechnic. In addition, Ramesh is a professional member of The New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology.

As a food scientist, Ramesh has worked for more than 11 years in product development, herbalism, nutrition research, marketing, and glycemic index while developing more than 50 functional food products. During his employment with Temasek Polytechnic, he lectured and tutored local diploma students in “Food Chemistry” and “Biochemistry & Physiology for Nutrition”. He is currently an invited speaker/mentor at Massey University, Temasek Polytechnic, and MediaCorp.

He has co-authored a book about “Functionality of Non-starch Polysaccharides” in “Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements”. He also holds basic certification in Herbal Medicine (University of Minnesota), Psychology (Yale), and Mindfulness Cognitive Therapy (Brahm Centre). He is also the founder of social media’s largest food science and nutrition platform: “Food Science, Technology & Nutrition Group”, with more than 66,000 members worldwide.

Editor-in-Chief
NutraIngredients-Asia

Gary leads William Reed‘s HQ in Asia and is Editor-in-Chief of its food and nutrition titles FoodNavigator-Asia, NutraIngredients-Asia and CosmeticsDesign-Asia, as well as organising a number of high-level food, nutrition and cosmetics conferences, awards and summits. He started his career as a journalist in UK, where he we went on to edit several newspapers and consumer titles, before taking senior leadership roles in business-to-business media and events companies across the food, beverage, cosmetics, fashion, travel and media industries. Gary opened William Reed’s first Asia Pacific office in Singapore in 2016 and has spearheaded the expansion of its editorial, events and commercial operations across the region. Gary has hosted, presented and moderated at conferences and awards shows around the world, and has regularly appeared on TV and radio to discuss the food and nutrition, travel and tourism, and media and marketing industries.