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What does today’s data say about tomorrow’s weight management market?

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
(All times are UTC UTC )

The topic:

This webinar will cover the following:

    • Weight Management Market overview: current statistics
    • What does the future hold for weight management
    • Emerging delivery systems
    • Weight Management ingredient evaluation
    • How are consumers reacting to weight management, how are they being educated? Are they        getting it?
    • Innovative weight management products across the globe

Moderator

Caroline Scott-Thomas FoodNavigator-USA.com Caroline Scott-Thomas
Deputy Editor
FoodNavigator-USA.com

Caroline Scott-Thomas is a journalist specializing in the food and beverage industry. Writing for FoodNavigator-USA.com, her particular focus is the North American market. Prior to completing a Masters degree in journalism from Edinburgh Napier University, she had spent five years working as a chef. She works from William Reed Business Media’s office Montpellier office in the south of France.

FoodNavigator-USA.com

Speaker

Tom Vierhile Datamonitor Tom Vierhile
Director of Datamonitor's Product Launch Analytics
Datamonitor

Tom Vierhile is the Director of Innovation Insights for Datamonitor.

Tom has over 20 years of experience in consumer packaged goods reporting and analysis, much of that with Datamonitor’s Product Launch Analytics database of new products. He is an internationally recognized expert on new product marketing and has authored many articles on new products for a variety of trade publications.

Tom has a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from St. Bonaventure University and an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Datamonitor

Roberta Re Leatherhead Food Research Dr Roberta Re
Section Manager-Nutrition and Health
Leatherhead Food Research

Roberta graduated in 1995 from the University of Palermo Italy, where she completed a Doctorate in Pharmacy, after which she spent a year at the University of California Berkeley before commencing a PhD in Biochemistry at King's College London at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases. In 2001 she joined the MRC-HNR as a Survey co-ordinator of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey. Having spent several years in a research environment, her interest has focused on the investigation of functional foods and their relationship to a number of health related issues. Prior to joining Leatherhead in 2007, Roberta spent several years working as a Business Manager for a biotech company associated with the University of Cambridge where she gained business and marketing experience. She is now the manager of the Nutrition Research department which performs human intervention studies for efficacy and health claim substantiation, as well as GI testing.

Leatherhead Food Research