Alan is a seasoned nutrition industry leader with a Ph.D. in neurobiology and extensive experience in ingredient development and commercialization for supplements, functional foods, and medical nutrition, specializing in brain health and cognitive function.
Relevant Skills
Neurobiology Research and Application
Expertise Summary
Alan is a nutrition industry leader with extensive experience within the business-to-business ingredient market, as well as the business-to-consumer finished product markets across supplements, functional food and beverage, and medical nutrition.
Alan has expertise in neurobiology through his PhD and postdoctoral work in the science of mood, stress, and anxiety-related neural circuits.
He worked on developing novel ingredients for brain health, especially in neurodevelopment (early life) and neurodegeneration (aging).
Alan is well published having authored dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles and is experienced in creating white papers to promote ingredients with health benefits.
While at a premier nutritional products company, Alan led many new ingredient development projects from conception through launch via coordination of a diverse set of disciplines (manufacturing, efficacy, supply chain, regulatory, marketing, sales, IP, etc.) across multiple global teams.
Alan has been on the “customer” side for the last 5 years and understands what supplement and functional food and beverage companies are looking for in new innovative ingredient solutions from a “reason to believe” and cost-benefit ratio perspective.