Following its 2020 launch into the alt-meat market, the company's transformative new name aligns beautifully with its mission to support a well-fed future through the creation of mycelium-based foods.

Natural Alternatives International, Inc., an international leader in custom contract nutritional supplement manufacturing for over four decades, announced Sherri Balzer has joined as business development manager, health & wellness.

This is the first year that SKU will run two concurrent tracks, tapping into mentor talent in two regions and enabling a larger number of brands to participate in the accelerator’s acclaimed program. Both cohorts will be hybrid programs with both online and in person programming - a model SKU first adopted during the onset of the pandemic.

Starting this year, FoodBytes!, Rabobank's discovery platform that champions cross-industry collaboration between the most promising startups, corporates and investors, will move beyond its annual pitch competition and expand to a continuous scouting model, with 15 startups selected to participate in programming every quarter.

The Grain Foods Foundation (GFF) announced that Erin E. Ball, longtime director of public relations and science for the foundation, has been named acting executive director by GFF's board of directors.

Evanesce, a sustainable packaging technology company, announced it has added Angela Rodenburgh as the new global vice president of marketing and promoted David Chaplin to director of operations for manufacturing, overseeing the company’s South Carolina and Nevada facilities. 

AAK, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, announced Megan Brazil and John Lee have joined the innovation team at AAK’s Innovation Center in Richmond, Calif. Brazil has joined as a customer innovation scientist and Lee as an innovation technologist.

Motif FoodWorks, the Boston-based food technology company making plant-based foods better tasting and more nutritious, announced César Vega has joined the company as vice president of food design.

Hefner is being hired to help accelerate the strategic growth plan in the company’s US and Canada businesses, including the broader deployment of Agile teams and a North America zone digital agenda.