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Melanie Luangrath is Director New Business Development at DSM Food Specialties. She has over 20 years of diversified experience, including launching new product solutions and managing cross-functional innovation projects to commercialization. Melanie holds an MBA from Syracuse University, New York and currently leads the commercial team at DSM Proteins of the Future with CanolaPRO® as the first specialty protein of DSM’s protein portfolio. Before joining DSM in 2018, Melanie worked at Givaudan Taste & Wellbeing division and AkzoNobel. She is passionate about food experience discovery and curious about exploring new food combinations that are delicious, nutritious and sustainably produced.

Barbara Jacobs is Applications Manager at DSM Food Specialties. In this role Barbara manages the applications efforts for CanolaPRO® and spearheads the development of demo products for both plant-based dairy and meat alternatives. A Food Technologist by training, Barbara worked at Unilever for 15 years across diverse product categories, including dairy cream alternatives and fermented soy drinks. She joined DSM in 2017. Barbara enjoys interfacing with customers and helping them optimize their formulas while supporting their applications trials.