Angus Flood is the Executive Vice President Strategic Development with Wisdom Natural Brands. He has 20 years experience in the  natural products industry, having worked with category leaders in both the B2B and B2C categories to develop markets and leading natural brands in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. 

Angus has a wide portfolio of commercial experience  including organic, fair trade, natural health, omega 3 and functional ingredients. His role at Wisdom natural brands, the world leader in stevia water extraction technology, has a particularly strategic focus to achieve rapid and sustainable growth.

Angus is passionate about fair trade initiatives for stevia farmers and their families and ensuring the stevia industry provides a sustainable and natural solution to the obesity and diabetes epidemics sweeping through Western diet countries. He is currently active in both the Americas and Europe to help to facilitate permanent and enlightened change.

- Master's degree of ecology from Sun Yat-sen University

- 6-years' experiences in market research

- Projects handled: HIS, aspartame, stevia, saccharine, yeast extract, enzyme, sugar, starch, white biotechnology, etc.

- Expertise: market research, benchmarking, financial analysis, competitive intelligence  

Jeff Reynolds serves as the President and CEO of SUNWIN USA, LLC., a subsidiary of Sunwin International, Inc.  Sunwin is the one of the world’s largest producer of stevia, an all natural zero calorie sweetener used in many countries around the world.  SUNWIN USA manufacturers, distributes and markets a stevia product called OnlySweet™ which can be found in grocery stores across the United States.  In addition, through their strategic partner WILD Flavors, Inc., SUNWIN sells bulk stevia to consumer product companies in the United States and Europe. Mr. Reynolds was instrumental in identifying and creating the partnership between WILD Flavors and SUNWIN. 

Prior to joining SUNWIN, Mr. Reynolds served as Executive Vice President of Business Development and a Board of Director of CROSSMARK, a national business services company providing sales, marketing and merchandising services to consumer product companies and major retailers in the United States, Canada and Australia. 

Jeff began his 26 years in the consumer packaged goods industry working for Procter & Gamble and The Nestle´Food Company. 

Mr. Reynolds received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration & Marketing and a Paralegal Certification from Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. 

Dr Liao is the Board Director and CEO of Guilin Layn Natural Ingredients Corp. He is also amember of China National High-Tech food development council.

Before Joining Layn, he has 8 years of working experience in P&G as senior food scientist and external business development manager.

He graduated from Peking University, majoring in biochemistry. He is an expert in photochemistry, human nutrition, and intelligence properties.

Jie Liu is a Graduate from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. Since 2008 he joined USP-China as Standards Acquisition Manager. In his current role, Jie Works closely with various USP divisions to support the effort to acquire monographs and reference material for chemical drugs and products, excipients, food ingredients, and dietary supplements from key constituencies in Greater China region.

Jie has more than 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development. Prior to USP, he worked in Novartis in United States.

Mr Miyazawa graduated from Chiba University in 1998, majoring in Food Science. Thereafter, he's been working as researcher in Flavor System & Technology Laboratory, Ogawa & Co., Ltd. His research focus is the measurement of both flavor and palatability based on psychophysics and physiology. 

Currently, one of his responsibility is to develop "Stevia Optimizer" as product leader,

which is a exclusive flavor system more than masking agent for stevia products.

Work Experience:

1998 – Joined Ogawa & Co., Ltd.

2000 – Group Leader, Sensory Evaluation Group, Flavor Laboratory

2005 – Visiting Scientist, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, U.S.

•Investigated psychophysics of odor mixtures (i.e., interaction among flavor)

2006 – Researcher, Flavor System & Technology Laboratory, R&D Control Division

•research for flavor perception with enhancement and suppression

Mr.Wang is a Graduate in Pharmaceutical Botany and Traditional Chinese Medicine, obtained from the University of Nanjing in 1987. He also has MBA from the University of Nanjing in 1995.

Previously, he was a manager of international department for Jinling pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd.

He teamed up with Dr. Wu (Ph.D USA) and Dr.Li (Ph.D USA) to established HB INTERNATIONAL LABORATORIES LTD in 2008, developing technology for natural herbs.

He has twenty years of experience in the field of natural herbs .

Dorn Wenninger is the Corporate Vice President of Supply Chain for PureCircle.  In this role, he is responsible for all supply side operations, from breeding, propagation, production, joint ventures, extraction and refinery factories to logistics.

Dorn comes to PureCircle having spent 16 years in the global agribusiness industry.  For 6 years Mr. Wenninger ran the European business of Driscoll’s, the world’s largest marketer of fresh berries.  Prior to Driscoll’s, he spent over 8 years in Central and South America with Chiquita Brands, one of the world’s largest banana producers. 

He holds a masters degree in International Business from the prestigious Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management.

Shintaro Kimura is the President of B&L Corporation that trades Stevia products for agriculture and human health globally since 2006. He manages all the sales strategy of Stevia products.

He is also the Executive Managing Director of JBB Stevia Laboratory Co., Ltd. that is the world pioneer of Stevia rebaudiana applications in non-sweetener sector since 2002. He manages all the researches and developements in JBB Stevia Laboratory Co., Ltd.

He will be the director of JBB Paraguay SA. that is going to be established in Paraguay, and will be the South American business hub.

Zhou Xin is the Expert & Trainer Asia of GLOBALGAP the Global Partnership for Good Agricultural Practices since 2006.

After graduating as MBA on Agriculture from the Netherlands, Zhou Xin participated in several training in quality systems and GLOBALGAP in different scopes, and worked for GLOBALGAP Secretariat and Certification Bodies in both Asia and Europe.

Zhou Xin has been involved in the benchmarking of ChinaGAP, which was launched by Chinese authorities as the National Standard for Good Agricultural Practice, and in the trial audit for GLOBALGAP standards. 

Konstantinos Karayiannis works at the overseas department of Morita Kagaku Kogyo, where he is in charge of overseas sales, business development as well as communication & coordination issues related to the overseas operations.

After graduating the Business & Administration Faculty of Piraeus University in Greece, he moved to Japan where he completed his post-graduate studies in Business at Shiga University and the PhD curriculum on Management Organization at Kyoto University.

He currently lives and works in Japan.