Jack Jeffers
Vice President, Quality, Consumer Affairs & Dairy Stewardship
Dean Foods
Jack Jeffers is Vice President of Quality, Consumer Affairs & Dairy Stewardship for Dean Foods, a leading food and beverage company in the United States. Jack is a professional member and Certified Quality Engineer with the American Society for Quality and a recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from Missouri Western State University. Prior to Dean Foods, Jack was with PepsiCo and Quaker Oats for 37 years in a variety of roles, including leading the quality teams for Quaker Foods and Snacks, Low Acid Canned Foods, Juices, Carbonated Soft Drinks and Hot Filled Beverages.
Stuart Kelly
Global Head of Commercial
Lloyd's Register
With over 25 years of experience in the food sector, Stuart specializes in helping clients develop customized compliance solutions that meet the requirements of their business and mitigate the ever-changing risks of global supply chains. From supplier onboarding and management processes to retail global audit programs, Stuart has worked with a number of recognized brand names on challenging and delivering the right solution at the right time. Having begun his working life as an enforcement officer for the UK Government, he moved into more technical and commercial roles for international companies. He believes that it is the job of the compliance program provider to continually challenge its clients to be the best they can, sharing best practices and learning with them every step of the way.
Rosalind Zils
Sr. Director, Quality and Food Safety
8th Ave Food & Provisions
Rosalind Zils leads quality and food safety at 8th Ave Food & Provisions, a leading, private brand-centric, consumer products holding company, which manufactures and sells private brand food products to retail, foodservice and ingredient customers. Prior to 8th Avenue, Rosalind had global responsibility for Land O Lake’s external supply chain quality. An alumnus of Iowa State University with a B.Sc. in Animal Science, Rosalind spent 26 years in various positions at Cargill, including Cargill corporate food safety. Her career encompasses experiences in sales, operations, quality assurance, supply chain management and food safety/quality. Rosalind is responsible for leading a team of professionals to develop and manage corporate quality and food safety requirements with internal and external partners that meet or exceed customer and regulatory expectations in multiple countries.
(Moderator) Barbara VanRenterghem, Ph.D.
Editorial Director
Food Safety Magazine
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.