CRN staff bring R-E-A-L expertise to their work, protecting and advancing a climate for our members to responsibly develop, source, manufacture, and market science-backed dietary supplements, functional food, and their ingredients, for better health and nutrition, in the areas of:
Relationships. Education. Advocacy. Leadership.
CRN team provides our members with real expertise and real value, highlighted in the areas of relationship-building, education, advocating for industry positions with legislators and regulators, and leadership within the dietary supplement industry landscape—and as providers of the products so many people find essential to their health and wellness.
RELATIONSHIPS
CRN connects members to a community of like-minded industry leaders, fostering strategic business partnerships. CRN also is expert in building working relationships with regulators, legislators, and other key stakeholders.
EDUCATION
CRN presents valuable, relevant educational content to keep members informed and always ready for new challenges and opportunities—as well as supporting their staffs’ professional development.
ADVOCACY
CRN is a tenacious, informed, and influential advocate for its members’ interests, delivering clear and data-driven messaging about the importance of dietary supplements and functional food to people’s wellbeing as well as to the economy.
LEADERSHIP
CRN leads the way in elevating the industry as well as empowering members with opportunities to shape the industry’s future through its committees, working groups and task forces—positioning companies as industry leaders that are committed to the highest quality standards for their science-backed products.
Meet our CRN leadership and senior staff:
- Steve Mister President & CEO
- Andrea Wong, Ph.D. SVP Scientific & Regulatory Affairs
- Megan Olsen SVP and General Counsel
- Julia Gustafson VP Government Relations
- Jeff Ventura VP Communications
- Luke Huber, N.D., MBA VP Scientific & Regulatory Affairs
- Haiuyen Nguyen VP Regulatory & Nutrition Policy
- Marc Rucker, MBA VP Finance & Administration
- Gretchen Powers VP Marketing & Member Experience
CRN’s Board of Directors adopted a new CRN strategic plan for the future, spanning 2024 through 2026, following an in-depth planning session of the Executive Committee with CRN staff to establish goals within each of five areas, instructing the association to:
Expand Self-Regulatory Initiatives:
Champion self-regulatory initiatives that demonstrate our members’ commitment to transparency, accountability, and responsible behavior to sustain and improve trust in our members’ products and to distinguish responsible companies.
Influence Public Policy:
Build and maintain a positive legislative, regulatory, and commercial environment for our members’ products to foster consumer confidence and industry growth.
Improve Consumer Access:
Improve consumer access to reliable information about the roles dietary supplements and functional food play for nutrition and health, and increase access to CRN members’ products.
Cultivate Positive Public Perceptions:
Create and foster awareness, perception and understanding of the safe and valuable roles our members’ products play on individual, family, and public health.
Expand Membership:
Lead the industry and build association resources through industry-focused education, member services, and community building that foster broad membership in CRN and differentiates CRN among supplement industry associations.
Excerpted from CRN 2023 annual report
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