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The Turover Straus Group cultivates a unique environment where marketing, food technology and culinary expertise interacts throughout the development process to yield breakthrough innovations. We leverage our real-world experience at food companies, agencies, restaurants and consulting firms, applying it to daily innovation disciplines for dozens of food categories in a given year.
Name: Alan Turover
Discipline: Food Science
Specialty:Strategic and International Technology Management
History: VP Product Development - Kraft Foods; VP, Research & Development - Dole Foods; Nestle
Patents: Rapid Drying Techniques, Microwave Processing, Mushroom Processing
Discipline: Food Science
Specialty:Strategic and International Technology Management
History: VP Product Development - Kraft Foods; VP, Research & Development - Dole Foods; Nestle
Patents: Rapid Drying Techniques, Microwave Processing, Mushroom Processing
Name: Bob Hendrickson
Discipline: Creative Culinary
Training: Culinary institute of America, Hyde Park, NY; Marriott's Management Training
Experience: Fine Dining Resorts & Clubs; Banquets & Catering; Healthcare & B&I
Certifications: American Culinary Institute
Discipline: Creative Culinary
Training: Culinary institute of America, Hyde Park, NY; Marriott's Management Training
Experience: Fine Dining Resorts & Clubs; Banquets & Catering; Healthcare & B&I
Certifications: American Culinary Institute
Name: Ray Stopczynski
Discipline: Creative Culinary
Training: Apprenticeship with Chef Marcel Bonetti
Experience: Hemingway's Blue Water Cafe; Rye Bread & Apple Cor
Certifications: American Culinary Institute
Discipline: Creative Culinary
Training: Apprenticeship with Chef Marcel Bonetti
Experience: Hemingway's Blue Water Cafe; Rye Bread & Apple Cor
Certifications: American Culinary Institute
Name: Tim Straus
Discipline: Marketing Strategy
Specialty: Food Innovation
History: Advertising
Speaker: IDDBA, NGA, AMI, Prepared Foods New Products Conference, Stagnito’s Obesity Summit
News: Food Technology, Muscle & Fitness, Meat Marketing, Meat Processing
Discipline: Marketing Strategy
Specialty: Food Innovation
History: Advertising
Speaker: IDDBA, NGA, AMI, Prepared Foods New Products Conference, Stagnito’s Obesity Summit
News: Food Technology, Muscle & Fitness, Meat Marketing, Meat Processing
Name: Chris Wolf
Discipline: Strategic Innovation
Specialty: Ideation & Trend Tracking
History: Food consulting, journalism, futurism
Training: Kellogg Graduate School of Management
News: CBS This Morning, USA Today, Psychology Today, NPD, Christian Science Monitor
Speaker: ASFSA, NACUFS, Food Management, HFM, Women's Foodservice Forum, NRA
Discipline: Strategic Innovation
Specialty: Ideation & Trend Tracking
History: Food consulting, journalism, futurism
Training: Kellogg Graduate School of Management
News: CBS This Morning, USA Today, Psychology Today, NPD, Christian Science Monitor
Speaker: ASFSA, NACUFS, Food Management, HFM, Women's Foodservice Forum, NRA