Mike Munnelly
Field Marketing Manager, Product Inspection
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Mike Munnelly is field marketing manager for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Product Inspection business. Based in the UK, Mike has a strong technical background and works closely with our sales organization and customers to help define market needs, ensuring that food processors have the right solutions to meet their product quality and safety needs. Mike has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and an MBA from Lancaster University.
(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.