NCIFT Lunch and Learn Series: Clean Label Sugar Reduction Strategies in Foods and Beverages
Event description
Join NCIFT as we learn about Clean Label Sugar Reduction Strategies in Foods and Beverages with Dr. Alex Woo, founder and CEO for W2O.
Alex is the founder and CEO for W2O, a flavor technology firm for the past fifteen years based in USA. He specializes in creating Better Food with niche expertise in contemporary taste & smell neuroscience and state of art clean label plant-based ingredients. Food and beverage companies hire him to bring food science to their new product development efforts on topics such as salt reduction, sugar reduction and multisensory eating experience. Food ingredient firms retain him to lead the creation of plant-based ingredients particularly taste modulators. Alex also served as Chief Science Officer Sweeteners for Amyris a precision fermentation clean ingredient company (2019-2021), and as Chief Innovation Officer for Nascent a stevia sweetener leader (2017-2019). He is currently on the science advisory board for Olfactive Bio a biosensor startup, and Advance International a marine protein startup all near Silicon Valley. Prior to that, Alex had held various R&D leadership positions in companies including Pepsi, Starbucks, and Wrigley. He led technical teams to achieve business results. Alex holds a PhD in Food Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison.