Scott Tassani
Currently, as President of Meati Foods, a Boulder, Colorado start-up and innovator in alternative protein solutions, Scott is spearheading a growth strategy to achieve $1B in net sales by 2025. His fundraising impact led Meati to convert a $150M Series C and more than double the company's market valuation.
Tassani previously served for nearly 30 years at The Pillsbury Company and General Mills, where in his last five years, he was the President and Chief Customer Officer for the brand’s $11 billion North America business. During his tenure with General Mills, he delivered winning strategies and premier commercial execution for leading consumer brands, including Cheerios, Annie’s, Yoplait and Nature Valley.
Kevin Benmoussa
Kevin is currently the CFO of Aleph Farms - a food company that grows high-quality animal products that are good for people, the planet and animals. Kevin was previously Chief Financial Officer at The Vita Coco Company, where he was responsible for expanding the company’s global finance functions before leading the company’s initial public offering in 2021. Prior to that, he held numerous corporate leadership positions at Nestlé Waters North America, Inc. and PepsiCo Inc. where he drove growth and profitability through M&A, strategic alliances and business development.
Veronica Fil
Veronica Fil is a former behavioral economist; an author; and the co-founder of Grounded Foods Co.-- a company that creates high-nutrition dairy alternatives from one of the world's most sustainable superfoods, hemp.
Kat Amrhein
Claire Schlemme
Claire Schlemme is an ardent environmentalist who saw a need to fix a broken food system in order to protect the planet. Claire’s lifelong interest in food and nature began to intertwine when she was diagnosed with cancer in her early 20s. This experience made her passionate about understanding the links between food and health, both of our environment and our own bodies. She co-founded Boston’s first organic juice company with the aim to connect local farmers and city-dwellers through nutritious and delicious foods. This experience exposed her to two primary challenges: food waste and the lack of affordable nutrition. Committed to finding solutions at the intersection of food, sustainability, and accessible nutrition, Claire launched Renewal Mill. Prior to diving into entrepreneurship, Claire was an environmental consultant at Industrial Economics, Inc. in Cambridge, MA. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University.
David Tze
Gwen Cheni
Gwen is a Partner on the Investment Team at Khosla Ventures.
She was previously a Partner at IndieBio/SOSV covering bio and AI. Prior to IndieBio, Gwen was the founder and Managing Partner of Galapagos Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused on the intersection of biology and AI/ML. She was an early investor in SyntheX, Intrinsic Medicine, and Huue. Prior to Galapagos Ventures, she was a Director at StudioX (machine learning venture studio funded by Shell and Boston Consulting Group) and a Venture Partner at Fusion Fund (early stage fund focused on AI/ML, robotics and devices). Gwen was on the Board of Advisors at Singularity University Ventures, an impact-focused accelerator, and helped launch their first batch of startups in the Nordics.
Prior to venture, Gwen spent eighteen years on Wall Street investing in public equities, started her career at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and was promoted to portfolio manager at a $300 million innovation-themed hedge fund.
Gwen is the author of a chapter in a Physics textbook on lasers, second author on two publications in immuno-oncology, and co-owner of a patent on magnetic resonance. She currently sits on the Advisory Board of the Yale University School of Medicine.
Gwen received her bachelor’s degree in economics (math track) with a minor in computer science electrical engineering from Yale University. She received her MBA from the University of Chicago. Gwen also spent two years at UCSF researching immunotherapy for glioblastomas, and was second author on two publications.
Craig Wilson
Marcel Bens
Dr. Michael Taylor
- Founder, Former President and CEO, MARS (MultiPlan Payment Integrity Solutions)
- President of MultiPlan’s Payment Integrity division
- Founded MARS as a technologically-enabled provider of healthcare payment integrity services for payers and third-party administrators
- VP of Operations at Executive Health Resources, acquired by Optum in 2010.
- Previously medical director for Aetna / Schaller Anderson, as well as co-Founder and President of a rural family medicine practice.
- Michael is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Harvard College