SPEAKERS

Dr Mian Riaz
Extrusion Technology Program
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Steve Watts
Sales Specialist
PerkinElmer
Frank Durazo
Worldwide Sales & Service
Maddox Metal Works
Steve Mires
Sales and Service
Maddox Metal Works, Inc.

Dr. Brian Anderson
Executive Management Grain Millers Vice President, BNA Innovation & RD Marketing,
Bunge North

Dr. Helbert Almeida
R&D, Grain Science Innovation
Grain Craft Corn Milling

Brian Plattner
PE, Process Technology Director, Food and Industrial Products
Wenger Manufacturing

Dr. Debomitra Dey

Dr. Brad Strahm
Consultant
The XIM Group, LLC

Dr. Mehmet Caglar Tulbek
A.Ag., Director of Research & Development, AGT Foods R&D Centre President,
Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Center
Doug Hanify
PE, Manager, Process & Product Innovation
Spray Dynamics, a Heat and Control company

Pete Savage
Senior Project Manager
Innovation, Basic American Foods

John Concannon
Vice President
C. Cretors and Company

Julie Talkington
Givaudan

Caleb Reyes
Account Manager, Snack Food Systems
Heat and Control Inc.

Fariha Irshad
Post Doctorate Research Associate in the Department of Food Science and Technology
Texas A&M University

Brian S. Cooke
Global Director of Product Development
The Dallas Group

Tadesse Fikre Teferra
Assistant Research Scientist
Texas A&M University

Topher Dohl
Technical Center Director
Wenger Manufacturing
Jenni Harrington
Process Engineer

Dvijal Patel
Food Scientist
Buhler

Mike Bray
VFFS

Kelly Knowles
Executive Vice President
SNAC International

Elliott Strahm
Product Development Specialist Biography
Wenger Manufacturing
