Brian Perry is an established food safety and quality leader with more than 20 years of experience directing and refining food safety and quality, driving innovative R&D processes, leading risk prevention, and refining operational standards for Fortune 500 companies. Brian currently leads food safety and quality at TreeHouse Foods, a leader in private brands and custom products for the retail, food away from home, comanufacturing, and ingredient industries.

Passionate about helping global food businesses understand, manage, and mitigate the risks to their products and brands, Kimberly’s reputation as a thought leader in food safety/supply chain risk and deep domain food sector expertise has been built over more than 30 years working for and with leading global food companies and associated service organizations across major world markets. Kimberly has extensive experience as a technical professional specializing in design, development, implementation, assessment, and training within the arena of retail agrifood risk management systems, specifically related to auditing principles and the control of food safety, product quality, authenticity, and legality.

Barbara VanRenterghem, Ph.D., is the editorial director of Food Safety Magazine, a position she has held since 2008. From 2005–2008, she was the chief editor of Controlled Environments Magazine and the science editor of Animal Lab News and Lab Manager Magazine at Vicon Publishing. At Eaton Publishing (1999–2005), she rose from the positions of assistant scientific editor for BioTechniques and acquisitions editor for BioTechniques Press to the editor of content development and acquisitions and director of commercial product development. While at Eaton (then acquired by Informa), she served as the chief editor of Preclinica. She received a B.Sc. in biology in 1989 from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 1994 from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.