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Irene Rosenfeld and the art of making a big job smaller
After decades learning why people buy, Irene Rosenfeld made a different calculation: why keep two businesses together? The 2012 Kraft split put her in charge of Mondelēz and gave a familiar cupboard of brands a new corporate shape.
Ejnar Knudsen and the education of patient money
A dairy-farm upbringing, a decade at Rabobank and a spell inside a California feed business gave AGR Partners’ founder three ways to read agriculture. His career connects the mechanics of making food with the question of who finances its next chapter.
Future Food Movement wants climate promises to survive the Monday meeting
Food businesses have targets. Their people have trade-offs. Future Food Movement sells the training, peer conversations and advice intended to bring the two together.
Dan Waters and the Business of What Goes in the Bowl
After building brands around cheese, ingredient-conscious snacks and chocolate, Dan Waters has arrived in pet food with a familiar brief: turn a label into a promise people can understand.
The Group That Watches the People Watching the Farm
Animal Agriculture Alliance began when an agricultural journalist realized the argument over farm animals was arriving faster than the industry could answer it. Nearly four decades later, its product is preparedness: intelligence, training, and a room where the food chain compares notes.
SCHIED Put the Foodservice Sales Binder on a Leash
The Westlake Village agency spent decades learning where food sales stall. Its answer is part marketing shop, part digital toolmaker - built to replace the rep's least satisfying sentence: "I'll get back to you."
Paul Schiefer
Paul Schiefer is the CEO of Amy's Kitchen, the family-founded organic frozen food maker in Petaluma, California. He started on the canning line as a high-school intern, then spent more than two decades inside the company - in IT, international, sustainability, government affairs and Chief of Staff - before being named President in 2023 and CEO in April 2026.