Nick Popovici
Nick is passionate about transforming the restaurant industry through innovative technology. In January 2016, he founded Vita Mojo, a SaaS platform for the restaurant industry. He believes that when it comes to food, everyone is different. We have different tastes, appetites, goals and DNA. Vita Mojo platform empowers customers to personalise their experience and food around their unique needs. While behind the scenes it is focused on automating human repetitive tasks via intelligent algorithms and robotics. Before Vita Mojo Nick spent 8 years in finance as a Portfolio Manager for BlackRock and most recently for Schroders.
Joel Burgess
Joel Burgess is the founder and CEO of Nutrifix - a personalised nutrition app that locates healthy meals nearby tailored to your body’s needs. Joel is on a mission to take away the stress of healthy eating by making personalised nutrition a reality and available to everyone. Nutrifix is developing the first app that combines nutritional advice with meals on the high street.
Philipp Merk
Philipp Merk is founder and Chief Product Officer at the personalized nutrition and health company LOEWI, a scientific spin-off of Technical University Munich.
He leads LOEWI´s data-science and R&D team and is responsible for the development of LOEWI’s science-driven recommendation engine – the heart of LOEWI´s operating system for personalized health and nutrition.
He is also part of the task force for digital health of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and guest lecturing on Innovation in Digital Health & Nutrition.
Catia Pimenta de Sousa
Catia joined recently DSM Personalized Nutrition commercial team, as the new Business Head Personalized Nutrition - for Europe Middle East and Africa.
Catia has previous experience in various Marketing, Business Development, Strategy, Venturing and Innovation roles at different FMCG’s. She spend the last years at Nestle where she has Global Head of New Business and Digital Platforms based in NY, San Francisco and Singapore. In her recent roles, she lead commercial the launch and expansion of several new businesses in F&B, digital health and Personalized Nutrition. She shaped digital health strategies and set up impactful partnerships with nutrition startups, large technology companies and digital platforms. She has a Post-Graduation in Digital Business from Columbia Business School, NYC.
