Darko Mandich is the CEO & Co-Founder of MeliBio, an award-winning food technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. MeliBio has been recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2021 for creating plant-based honey that mimics the taste, texture, and nutritional profile of bee-made honey, without harming bees or the environment.Darko is an impact entrepreneur on a mission to sustainably feed 10 billion people with delicious and nutritious foods while saving the planet's keystone species - wild and native bees. He is passionate about the future of food and ways to advance science to make the food system sustainable, scalable, and animal-free. He is also the Founder in a non-executive role at Foodscale Hub, an impact venture studio that supports tech-enabled innovations in the agri-food sector.