At YouBar, we develop and manufacture cutting edge protein bars for leading brands and influencers.As the head of YouBar's innovation team, I am responsible for taking clients from the moment they decide they would like to create a new brand of protein bars until they are ready to launch their new bar brand to market. www.youbarmanufacturing.com

As a Business Writer on staff at the Associated Press, I wrote blow-by-blow coverage of the 2008 global economic meltdown, with my articles being picked up by newspapers around the world, including The International Herald Tribune and USA Today.http://www.ap.org/

I worked as a London-based Newsweek Correspondent for five years, where I covered major economic trends including the international housing market, the global luxury trade and the effects of global warming and the green movement on big business. After taking over as Newsweek’s London-based business correspondent in 2006, I wrote more than 100 articles in two years, including five cover stories.At Newsweek, I also had the great pleasure of interviewing some of the biggest names in the business world, including Virgin boss Richard Branson, Anglo-American CEO Cynthia Carroll, Celtel founder Mo Ibrahim, Body Shop founder Anita Roddick and founding partner of the Carlyle Group, David Rubenstein.