Dan Gooderham

Head Brewer

Adnams

Laura Willoughby MBE

Co-Founder

Club Soda

Igor Parshin

Regional Category Manager Beverages

Givaudan

Daniel J F I’Anson

Commercial Director

Everleaf Drinks

Dash Lilley

Co-Founder and Head of Product

Three Spirit Drinks

Mark Loughborough

Director of Operations

Young’s and Geronimo

Debbie Richards Novograd

CEO

BevZero

Ivan Farneti

Managing Director

Five Season Ventures

Ivan has been an active venture capital investor for the last 20 years and he is the co-founder of Five Seasons Ventures, the first European venture fund fully focused on Foodtech.

He is passionate about product and technology innovation aimed at solving big challenges in the food industry: from alternative sources of proteins, to functional foods, from new models of food distribution to the reduction of food waste.  At Five Seasons he invested in Tropic Biosciences (plants gene editing), Butternut Box (DNVB pet nutrition), THIS.co (plant-based meat alternatives), Cortilia (D2C fresh food retailer), YFood Labs (balanced meal replacements), Just Spices (D2C spices), Yamo (D2C fresh baby food) and La Fourche (D2C organic groceries).

His experience from previous venture funds in London, includes structuring investments, organizational and strategy development, setting up governance for growth and planning for successful exits. He was an early stage investor in Everbridge, Inc. (Nasdaq: EVBG), Tridion (acq. by SDL Plc), Gomez (acq. by Compuware), among others.

In his spare time he enjoys family life, cooking, fly fishing, and practicing jiu-jitsu with his son Adam.

 

 

Rob Fink

Co-Founder

Big Drop Brew

Ben Branson

Founder

Seedlip