Hoby Wedler, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Los Angeles, California, US

• Designed products for Fortune 500 and 100 companies by leveraging food and beverage product development and sensory expertise to optimize existing portfolios.
• Improved product quality, customer appreciation, and cost-of-goods for Fortune 500 clients by identifying sensory issues in products and working with the R&D team to remove unwanted flavors at both a molecular and.
• Redesigned formulas in the F&B industry to scale development and reduce costs while improving flavor and quality.

Petaluma, California, US

• Oversee, manage, and lead Senspoint, a global creative, marketing, and strategic consultancy focused on helping brands make the world a more accessible and sustainable place.
• Amplify messaging from corporate and non-profit clients committed to creating a positive impact through work in the world.
• Worked with Barilla to provide customers needing visual assistance with the help they need by establishing and leading a partnership with Be my Eyes, an organization that provides visual assistance through smartphones.

• Founded and led Hoby’s Essentials, a company focused on delivering industry-leading products and services with unparalleled sensory experiences that elevate client confidence and enhance their lives.
• Led the development of hundreds of gourmet seasoning blend recipes with enhanced flavors that provide unique food sensory experiences to customers with and without visual impairments.
• Built, designed, and currently manage an eCommerce business for products that have generated 1000s of units in sales.

Petaluma, California, US

• Create impactful and accessible educational opportunities for all students in the local community by leading the establishment of new programs that promote critical thinking, creativity, student well-being, and.
• Co-led a strategic planning team to write a new strategic plan for the organization, focusing on enhancing financial goals.
• Developed key funds during the pandemic by creating and auctioning food and beverage experiences to community members including a collaboration between Chef Charlie Palmer and Francis Ford Copala.

Petaluma, California, US

• Played a key role in the Grants committee by adjusting and optimizing opportunities worth up to $250K to meet the social and emotional learning and STEM education needs of 25 local area schools with 5K students during.

• Supported the development and operations of an innovative community and learning hub helping people living with sight loss and their families regain confidence, master new skills, and engage with technology and other.
• Serve on the finance committee to help navigate and guide key financial decisions and assist in developing new funding channels across a wide variety of industries while overseeing and managing a $1.5MM operating.
• Managed relationships between staff and the chief executive and created and led the adoption of a new strategic plan to serve 1,000 clients per year by 2025 and eliminate the budget deficit.

Manteca, California, US

• Partnered with the Coppola team to design, develop, and lead Tasting in the Dark, a truly blind wine tasting experience, that is now hosted at wineries and media and key wholesale markets across the country.
• Led internal tastings to sample wines to facilitate judgment and drive decision-making for wines to send to critics.
• Held a Blending seminar to teach Taught wine stewards from the grocery industry on finishing processes for single varietals.

Princeton, New Jersey, US

• Help blind and visually impaired students new to college adjust to college life, live independently, and learn to study productively by acting as a guide and mentor for daily life and activities
• Developed and led a College Success Program that has paired over 500 first year blind or visually impaired (BVI) college students with BVI mentors nearing the end of their undergraduate careers.
• Organized tasting in the dark fundraising events with 150+ donors across the United States that showcased how life can be enjoyable without sight and raised $500K for Learning Ally.

Petaluma, US

• Collaborated with a 10-person team to deliver 3-day chemistry camps for 100+ blind and visually impaired high school students from around the world at Enchanted Hills Camp and retreat of LightHouse for the Blind of San.
• Provided students with hands-on accessible chemistry experiences including activities and lectures designed and delivered by graduate students and university professors.
• Empowered students to follow their dreams, pursue higher education, and reach their goals, no matter how visual they seem.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Organic Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry

Bachelor Of Arts, History