Field of Expertise
Functional Foods and Beverages. Health & Wellness
Expertise
Raphaëlle is a food innovation expert with over 25 years’ experience working internationally for start-ups and multinationals. After starting my career as a food scientist and technologist, Raphaëlle led multiple technical, brand extension and business deployment projects with Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Pfizer and Nestlé. Her experience includes natural and multifunctional ingredients, infant formula, probiotics, functional foods and drinks, nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals (or nutricosmetics). Raphaëlle leveraged her industrial experience and expertise to build BiaBiz’s end-to-end innovation and new food industry business models. Bia-Biz, a directory of free web resources for the food industry, and a strategic adviser for many FoodTech start-ups: https://www.bia-biz.com/ Essentially, her work is to act like a catalyst with wide multi-disciplinary knowledge of product development and innovation of health and wellness products and services that are consumer-centric. From raw material characterisation to scale-up, industrialisation and launch of new products or technologies. Raphaëlle spends a lot of my time working on "innovation by design", merging clean-science, tech and ingenuity to move the trajectory of integrative health, beauty-from-within & nutrition. Keen interest in sustainable, nutritional and multi-functional systems and matrices with modulated delivery. Her latest company iNewtrition (https://inewtrition.com/) is a strategic partner for the Consumer Healthcare Industry to ensure effective execution in the development and commercialisation of science for new products. This may include compliance, customer satisfaction and launch plan execution; with expert focus on the project management of food product development and innovation using established and new route to market strategies and business models. INewtrition is an innovation management advisory firm of fully distributed experts to support top professionals in the commercialisation and launch of their products to accelerate the growth and development of their business and projects. iNewtrition is an instrumental player and enabler to bring product to market offering access to an integrated virtual platform of a global network of 20,000 professionals in the Health & Wellness industry and adjacent sectors. The audience covers all aspects of products life cycle and value chain in terms of disciplines and functions (safety, quality, marketing, operations, regulatory) and steps associated with product development (raw material sourcing and qualification, characterisation, formulation, prototyping) and scale-up, distribution, supply-chain and commercialisation.