Jackie Sidhu

Marketing, IFF

A passionate story teller, Jackie combines an in-depth knowledge of ‘everything flavor’ at IFF together with a finger on the pulse of cross-category food and drink trends to create inspiring product concepts for our customers.

Julia Kennedy

Beverage Designer, IFF

3 years with IFF and a lifetime of beverage obsession! Julia uses her experience developing in the beverage and dairy categories to bring to life innovative customer focused concepts. She regularly takes inspiration from visiting local markets and pop-up events.

Sarah Wagner

Beverage Designer, IFF

Enthusiastic about all categories of beverage; Sarah brings 11 years of experience at IFF delivering creative solutions to our customers Sarah often gains inspiration from the garden, growing her own garnishes for drinks.

Victoria Pinotti

R&D Technical Support Specialist, Barry Callebaut

Victoria was born in Brazil, but her soul belongs to the world. She loves to travel and to cook! She says, "I'm lucky enough to work with cacao and have the opportunity to use my creativity exploring these delicious world!"

Angel Duque

Angel is passionate about all the resources that Colombia offers and how, through Cocktails, we generate a social and environmental impact. He says, "With Coffee we tell a story about tradition, we taste a culture and we surprise."

Renaud Goigoux

Head Chef, ROUHI, Amsterdam

With his passion for food, sustainability and health, Renaud has previously worked in the kitchens of notable Amsterdam restaurants, RIJKS® and Breda. He is now the head chef of ROUHI in Amsterdam. He is a flexitarian and likes to submerge himself with new flavors and techniques. Seasonality is at the core of his cooking where vegetables are the main ingredients; he prefers to combine them in simplicity. In his free time he likes to get away from the city and to get close to nature, where he spends time foraging for the restaurant.

Carolina Rey Botti

Creative Flavorist, IFF

Carolina is a food engineer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is currently a flavorist trainee and has been studying at the IFF Flavorist School for the last two and a half years. As a student, she has worked in the sales and customer service areas for the chemical industry, but it was in IFF that she discovered flavors and their incredible and magical effect on food and consumers. Carolina considers Mexico her second home, after living there as a teenager and she loves cooking, collecting (and tasting) different types of tea and practicing Taekwon-Do.

Sol Catalá

Principle Beverage Designer, IFF

Born in Buenos Aires, Sol has a degree in Food Technology and has worked in the industry for 15 years, the last 10 of which have been with IFF. She is currently the principal food technologist, leading the beverage lab and believes that we are living in a technology, social media and connectivity revolution and is passionate about embracing this change together. Sol is the mother of a beautiful five-year-old, named Juana, and is expecting a second child in July. Her hobbies include gardening, taking care of animals and spending time on the beach in the summer.

Silvina Wieckowski

Creative Flavorist, IFF

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Silvina is a flavorist who fell in love with the amazing world of flavors 25 years ago. She spends her time working across the beverage, dairy, confectionery and bakery categories and is the LatAm Ambassador for IFF's Re-Imagine Modulation portfolio. She believes that flavorists have an extraordinary power to create flavor experiences and it's awe-inspiring to see people's faces when this magic happens.

Andrew Strapp

Beverage Designer, Tastepoint

Andy is a senior applications technologist and beverage lab supervisor at Tastepoint UK. He has been in the flavour industry for 24 years, specialising in beverage development and applications stretching from the healthy and fortified soft drinks and nutritional beverages to high end alcoholic products. Andy is a quietly spoken genius, with a knack for insightful thinking and huge talent for creativity! Outside of the lab he has a long-term girlfriend and 3 dogs. Andy and his girlfriend enjoy training the dogs in dog agility and competing with them. Andy is also a keen football supporter and is looking forward to being back in the stadium to support his favourite club -Luton Town FC.

Cuitlahuac Mendez

Agroindustrial Engineer, Productos Agrícolas Friva

As an agroindustrial engineer with a Master's Degree in Holistic Education for Sustainable Development, Cuitlahuac focuses on sustainable development, ecology and biology. He is a specialist in the cultivation and agricultural production of chilli peppers. The passion for agricultural production arose from his grandparents; they were farmers and merchants.

Joshua Monaghan

Bartender, Fifty Mils

Born in Leon, Guanajuato, Joshua considers himself "as Mexican as the mezcal". He loves to work at the bar, where he does his best to bring history and communicate provenance, heritage and context through his creations. He loves exploring multiple ingredients and seeing how they can be involved in cocktails. Joshua considers himself "an alchemist of mixology".

Ale D´Agostino

Master Mixologist

In the world of mixology, Ale D´Agostino has gained great recognition, being considered one of the best bartenders in Brazil.  With his innovative soul and restless mind, he has expanded his mixology outside of the bar, with a line of bottled drinks with exclusive signature recipes. When it comes to drinks with low or no alcohol content, he believes in the power of mixology to create complex, functional and memorable drinks using fruits and botanicals. Recently, he opened the Apothekario Bar with the aim of being a laboratory of ideas and inspiration, promoting local ingredients, culture, diversity and sustainability.

Laura Willoughby

Co-founder, Join Club Soda

Laura Willoughby MBE is co-founder of Club Soda, the Mindful Drinking Movement. ... A campaigner at heart, with a background in movement building and politics, she realised that one of the big sticking points was a way to support people to take a self-guided journey to change their drinking.