To nurture my growth mindset, I am constantly identifying opportunities, demonstrating a solid track record of establishing new business segments within multinational companies and leading multicultural teams around the world. As an international innovation leader, I’m a strategic connector and networker between corporations, start-ups, and academia to build bridges that create value for actors in the ecosystem. My analytical problem solving as well as strategic negotiation skills have been proven globally – in my 20 years of business experience I had the opportunity to work on 4 different continents and in 10+ countries, sharpening my cultural awareness, agility, and flexibility.Creating and scaling up new businesses is my passion. With SGProtein, I’m combining all my previous experience from working with companies of various size and age. Creating a manufacturing facility that allows start-ups, SMEs and MNCs an asset-light scaling of their product innovation is filling an important gap in the food production ecosystem. Co-development and co-creation with our partners and customers are my aspiration. Making plant-based meat alternatives cost-efficiently available to a wider population will not only bring delicious and nutritional food to the people, it will also decrease the ecological footprint to feed a growing population sustainably.Since 2018, I have been involved in Singapore’s FoodTec space and, more specifically, the alternative protein and the plant-based meat industries. Under my leadership, the first pilot center for plant-based food in Asia was set up. The Protein Innovation Center is a co-investment between two Swiss companies, Bühler and Givaudan, who are leading in their fields. Previously, I was also in charge of Bühler’s business area Milling Solutions for the Southeast Asian and Pacific market, responsible for major key accounts, overseeing a yearly budget of USD 90m. My professional career started in Switzerland and brought me around the world to become a global citizen – from living and working in the US, Indonesia to Singapore, where my latest business endeavor, SGProtein, was born.