Tina Owens | Senior Advisor | Nutrient Density Alliance
Tina is a systems leader, strategist and futurist within the Organic and Regenerative Agriculture movements in the United States. She is currently the Vice President of Agriculture Transition at Intrinsic Exchange Group, a financial innovation company with a mission to bring market-based solutions to some of our most intractable problems. Tina’s background spans two decades within the world’s largest food companies and includes leading transformational shifts in food and agriculture systems via supply and operations as it relates to on-farm profitability, sustainability, regenerative agriculture financing, consumer activism related to clean label and organics, plus unfolding food as medicine and nutrient dense systems. Most recently, Tina spent two years as the Managing Director of the Nutrient Density Alliance. An effort to link consumer demand to regenerative agriculture and shore up the demand systems needed to support safe framer transition into regenerative systems. Tina also provided Industry consulting during this time for several critical efforts around the funding and demand systems within the regenerative agriculture movement. From 2018-2022 Tina worked for Danone North America where she was the Senior Director of Food & Agriculture Impact and developed the first stacked financing program within the CPG regenerative movement, comprised of millions of dollars in grant, philanthropic, and impact investing capital directly available to farming partners. She was also deeply involved in the carbon neutrality work for the world’s largest dairy and largest organic brand, Horizon Organic, designing strategies which spanned all four pillars of the Carbon Positive program including soil health, farmer care and safety, animal welfare, and nature-based offsets.
From 2001-2018 Tina worked at Kellogg Company on food systems transformation and sustainability. With work spanning Research & Development, Logistics, Procurement & Supply Chain, brand Operations and Contract Manufacturing, food transparency and leading-edge certifications (non-GMO, Organic, Certified Transitional, unfolding Regenerative), multi-disciplinary programs, and as a media-trained brand and company spokesperson. Tina’s concerted focus was for the Natural & Organic brands Kashi and Bear Naked granola, where she was the Director of Sustainability and worked for a decade as an intrapreneur to design industry-leading programs which converted 10,000 acres of land from conventional to organic certification, launched early soil health projects in Bolivian quinoa, and converted large portions of the supply portfolio to meet brand needs while putting Kashi and Bear Naked at the forefront of food-values movements. Tina was raised in a multi-generational conventional dairy and farming family and is a passionate advocate for scaling regionally based perennial and regenerative food systems focused on human and planetary health outcomes. She walks the talk through regeneration of the land on her own family farm in Michigan where Tina and her family raise heritage, pastured animals for nutrient dense outcomes, to regenerate their land, and to provide a deeper understanding of these food systems as it relates to scaling regional, regenerative agriculture nationally.
Kate Geagan | Co-Founder | Food + Planet
Kate is an award-winning dietitian and nutrition pioneer who has helped millions of eaters fall in love with foods that are transformative for people and planet. Bringing deep expertise at the nexus of food, health and agriculture, Kate is the author of Go Green Get Lean: Trim Your Waistline with the Ultimate Low-Carbon Footprint Diet (Rodale) and a co-founder of Food + Planet, a trailblazing nonprofit whose mission is to equip 1 million health professionals with tools to advance regenerative, sustainable diets by 2025.
Kate has served as a strategic partner to some of the world’s leading purpose-driven companies investment funds and creative projects, as well as pioneering regenerative food brands shifting paradigms on what it means to create healthy, delicious, equitable nutrition. A seasoned media expert, she has given over 1,500 media interviews throughout her career, including over 2 dozen appearances on the Emmy award- winning Dr. Oz Show. She has been invited to share her insights on how sustainability is rapidly reshaping the future of food with executive, investor, health professional and consumer audiences worldwide. A conscious wonderer and avid wanderer, Kate resides in the mountains of Idaho with her husband, 2 children and 4 rescue pets.
Amari Thomsen | Director of Nutrition Marketing & Communications | Clif Bar & Company