Gisele Gurgel, Business Insights & Analytics Director - Tetra Pak
Gisele Gurgel is responsible for Business Insights & Analytics, holding the Director position at Tetra Pak central marketing, based in Modena, Italy.
Gisele started to work at Tetra Pak in Brazil 20 years ago, and since then she has lived and worked in different locations around the world as well as in multiple functions across Sales and Marketing.
After accumulating deep experience in emerging markets, by leading a project to make nutrition food available to low income consumers in Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa, Gisele returned to Italy in 2017 to lead the marketing insights team towards the era of digital analytics and big data.
Gisele holds an MBA from the ESPM University (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) and an Executive Global MBA at Getulio Vargas University (out on hold), both in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Bertrand Giorgi, Chief Operations Officer - Tebrito
Bertrand Giorgi is an insect entrepreneur who supports stakeholders along the food value chain with alternative protein applications and organic fertilizer as the Chief Operations Officer at Tebrito.
He believes that the food value chain can be more efficient and sustainable using insects as catalysts to upscale widely and readily available biomass. There is an urgent need for climate-smart alternative quality protein along the value chain from feed to fish, livestock and petfood to food applications. Insect protein’s rich and balanced amino-acid profile makes it a sustainable and qualitative ingredient to sustainably feed a growing population with evolving diets.
Bertrand started in management consulting with significant international exposure, he identifies and converts opportunities to make circular opportunities a reality along the food value chain. He holds both a Master’s in Business Administration and in Politics.
Ola Ström, Food Technologist - Tetra Pak
Ola Ström is a Food Technologist working in the Product Development Centre in Lund, Sweden at Tetra Pak. He has been working at Tetra Pak for 15 years and worked in herbal medicine development and formulation previously.
Ola is responsible for running customer product trials, which involves planning, executing and reporting with the customer and local contacts to make sure that there has been the right amount of knowledge transfer and learnings. He is also responsible for running internal development projects, that support the innovation ecosystem, such as work with start-ups. More recently Ola’s focus has been on plant based and other alternative raw materials.