Elizabeth BUI

Owner of B@HEALTH consultancy

Experienced professional with 25 years experience in the health, nutrition & wellness industry. Pasionnated about natural and healthy lifestyle. With B@HEALTH, I am helping industrials and brands or investment funds to capture the growing opportunities surrounding the natural space.

Strategy, Marketing, Innovation

Leila FALCAO

PhD, CEO& Founder of InNaturals

I am a maker. A seasoned professional with extensive R&D programs management experience (more than 15 years) in the areas of natural ingredients for food and well-being markets. Creative, intuitive and curious, my passion is convert new ideas into value : more than 350 natural ingredients created for nutrition and health global markets (until now). Convinced that products built on a combined emotional and factual values proposition are better than competitors, I am founder of Inaturals, a R&D office who redefines innovation for Natural Market arena via the ingredient design, by use effective links between marketing, industry and research. Inaturals mission is to reduce the ecological footprint of cosmetic and nutraceutical products.

Innovation by design, design thinking, natural ingredients, clean label, cosmetics, nutraceuticals

Olivier GAILLARD

Environment, Health & Safety experienced professional

Now head of EHS for EMEA region in a large international manufacturing company, I have been working as an EHS and sustainability professional for 15 years, and 10 years at an international level, in all continents. I am familiar with food, biotechnology and manufacturing industries, and I am used to working in a multicultural environment. I mainly enjoy to use my experience not as an expert holding and delivering “knowledge” but more as a facilitator, an enabler to make things happen and be part of the change we need to solve the challenges the world is facing.”

Sustainability, EHS

Axel d’HAUTHUILLE

Country Head @ Syngenta, Morocco

I did agronomy studies @ Istom high school and then start as a cocoa and coffee farmer in the center of Ivory Coast during 4 years.Then I leaved 1 year in Madagascar to follow Vanilla campaign. From 2004 to 2010 I join Naturex as botanical procurement director. Travelling worldwide to find thousands of different medicinal, aromatics, cosmetics crop. for the last 6 years I’m working on agriculture; in Ivory Coast till summer 2019 and now I’m based in Rabat, Morocco. Fascinated by botanical sourcing with a a lot of contact all over the world, I’m always available to discuss and share information

Sourcing, Botanicals, Agronomist, Farming, Wild Collection

Katia MERTEN-LENTZ

Partener @ KELLER AND HECKMAN

Katia Merten-Lentz, partner resident in the Firm’s Brussels and Paris offices, is a leading practitioner in European food, feed, and agricultural law. Her practice also extends to Environmental Law, Biotechnologies (new breeding technologies) and Cosmetics Law.

Ms. Merten-Lentz assists clients throughout the food chain with issues ranging from marketing (food labeling, health and nutrition claims, organic labels etc.) to innovation (nanomaterials, genetically modified organisms, novel foods). She also helps clients in the food and feed area obtaining European authorization for new additives, enzymes and novel foods.
Based on her expertise Ms. Merten-Lentz works on a regular basis with academic institutions, European and national professional bodies, and commercial organizations. She often represents clients before national and EU courts and helps them managing food crisis (recall/withdrawal of products, risk assessment).

European food/feed & agricultural law, European Regulatory