Steve French
Natural Marketing Institute
Steve is Chief Operating Officer of Natural Marketing Institute (NMI), a division of Research America. NMI is a leading international strategic marketing consulting and market research firm specializing in health & wellness, sustainability and whole living. Steve has over 30 years of strategic marketing, business development, market research, and management experience. Combining a BS and MBA in marketing, he has accumulated extensive insight and knowledge into today’s consumer and market trends. He has pioneered a range of consumer databases based on interviews from over one million global consumer interviews to help clients navigate, identify and validate market opportunities. Prior to NMI, he spent 15 years at Pepsi and Mars. He is a frequent speaker at many industry events, is regularly sourced by media, and an author of over 200 published articles and written reports.
Jim Hyde
Balchem
Jim Hyde currently serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Human Nutrition & Health at Balchem. Mr. Hyde is active within the industry and serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors as the Immediate Past Chair of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, the leading trade association for dietary supplements. Balchem acquired Albion Minerals in February 2016, where Mr. Hyde was CEO from 2001 to 2016. Before joining Albion Minerals, Mr. Hyde was General Counsel at U.S. Bank, Utah, and was an associate at the Salt Lake City, Utah law firm of Parsons, Behle & Latimer. Mr. Hyde earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Utah State University in 1983 majoring in accounting and thereafter received his Juris Doctorate in 1986 from the University of Utah College of Law.
Brian Stuesser
Global Recruiters of Madison
Brian Stuesser, President of Global Recruiters of Madison (GRN Madison), began his career as a Search Consultant in 2005 and bought the firm in 2009. Brian continues to lead an international practice that specializes in Dietary Supplements, Specialty Ingredients and Personal Care. His clientele includes privately-held and publicly-traded emerging and high-growth companies within the health and wellness sector. GRN Madison has been awarded as Office of the Year 5 times and as Office of the Decade for Global Recruiters Network (GRN), and Stuesser is a perennial GRN Peak Performer, Multi-Million Dollar Producer, former National Search Consultant of the Year and Rookie of the Year. He is dedicated to developing long-term strategic alliances with client companies and candidates alike, and he strictly adheres to his guiding principles of honesty, integrity, compassion and confidentiality. His goal is to offer world class permanent placement services by providing leading companies top performing talent under the most demanding deadlines.
Brian Wommack
Council for Responsible Nutrition
Brian Wommack is responsible for overseeing the development and execution of the association’s overall strategic communications efforts, and entrusted to enhance and protect the reputation of the dietary supplement industry. Under his leadership, CRN’s Communications team is reimagining its member communication strategy and has launched new initiatives to proactively promote responsible industry and provide consumer education. Read more about Brian.