BOARD & ADVISORS

BITE’s Board of Directors provides governance, strategic guidance, and oversight to support the organization’s mission and long-term direction. The Board includes leaders with expertise across food, agriculture, research, tech, media, and organizational development.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(BITE Board Chair)
President, The Foundation for
Fresh Produce

(FCL Board Chair) Lauren M. Scott is the President of The Foundation for Fresh Produce whose vision and mission is to grow a healthier world by changing the trajectory of human health. She previously held a variety of roles at PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Diageo. Lauren earned her BS in Marketing from Rutgers University, MBA from the University of Maryland, and MS in Strategic Communication from Columbia University and is a Certified Association Executive (CAE). Lauren’s civic passions and board service includes combating food insecurities and perpetuating arts and culture.

LAUREN M. SCOTT

(BITE Vice Board Chair)
Senior Director of Culinary, Menu Systems and Impact Strategy, Sodexo North America

Lisa Feldman is Senior Director of Culinary, Menu Systems and Impact Strategy for Sodexo North America. A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, Lisa has over 30 years of experience in all facets of foodservice management. As a Certified Research Chef, she specializes in product and concept development. She is also the Corporate Commitments Working Group Co-Chair for the CIA’s Healthy Menus Research and Development Collaborative and the Co-Chair of CIA’s Healthy Kids Collaborative.

LISA FELDMAN

(BITE Treasurer)
COO, One Bio

Julie Wurfel is COO of One Bio, a technology developed at UC Davis that turns agricultural waste into invisible, efficacious, whole-food derived fibers that can be added to food and beverage at high inclusion rates. Julie’s executive management expertise is built on 20+ years in leadership roles at companies providing innovative solutions in the food industry. Most recently she was CEO and Board Member of Lavva, a plant-based dairy company that was part of the S2G Ventures portfolio. The first decade of Julie’s career was as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.

JULIE WURFEL

Global Food Sustainability Lead and Registered Dietitian, Unilever

Dorothy Shaver is Global Food Sustainability Lead and a Registered Dietitian at Unilever. Over the past fifteen years, Dorothy has worked across media, retail, health care, and the fitness industry championing food choices to enable personal and planetary health. Her most recent piece of work is the Future 50 Foods report, which is a collaborative thought-leadership report in which food system issues are outlined and nutrient-dense foods that promote agrobiodiversity and reduce the negative environmental impact of food are identified.

DOROTHY SHAVER

Head of Investments and Fund Partnerships, Third Derivative

Pilar Carvajo Lucena is Head of Investments and Fund Partnerships at Third Derivative, supporting climate tech startups globally to accelerate their path to commercialization and access to capital. For more than five years, she has been structuring climate funds and investing in piloting and scaling technologies and business models to address climate change. She's passionate about leveraging her finance, strategy, network, and fundraising experience to harness the opportunities that innovation, smart catalytic capital allocation and targeted public policy can unlock to accelerate climate action.

PILAR CARVAJO LUCENA

VP of Commercialization, Savor

Chiara Cecchini leads Business Development at Savor, a stealth company pursuing transformational technology to create climate negative food ingredients. Former researcher at the Food, Science and Technology Dept at UC Davis, she is now part of the Expert Network at the World Economic Forum, and she lectures about sustainable business and innovation at San Francisco State University, and has been recognized as Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe for Social Entrepreneurship.

CHIARA CECCHINI

CEO, Babylon Micro-Farms

Marc Oshima is CEO of Babylon Micro-Farms, a global leader for on-site indoor farming and co-founder of AeroFarms, one of the pioneers of vertical farming. With an in-depth background in agriculture, CPG, retail, and specialty food, he is focused on making fresh, nutritious produce more accessible to communities around the world. Marc’s leadership and innovation has been recognized by RETHINK Retail, TheFoodCons, Produce Business, and Eating Well magazine.