| Bill Hale Founder Hale Group Mr. Hale, the founder of The Hale Group, Ltd., has an extensive history of providing strategic counsel to the various participants in the food system. He has consulted with clients ranging from first stage processors and food manufacturers to chain restaurant operators and retail grocers. Recognized as an expert in the food industry, Mr. Hale is well known for his ability to identify emerging trends and new opportunities within the food system. Mr. Hale has conducted benchmark studies concerning strategic business and market planning, economic and competitive assessments, identification of market opportunities, and development of go-to-market strategies and programs. Mr. Hale received his B.S. in Food Science and Technology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his M.B.A. from Boston College. | |
| Mark W. Johnson Co-Founder and Senior Partner Innosight Mark Johnson is a co-founder and Senior Partner of Innosight, a strategic innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India, which he co-founded with Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. Mark’s most recent work has focused on helping companies envision and create new growth, manage transformation, and achieve renewal through business model innovation. This work is the subject of the McKinsey award-winning Harvard Business Review article, “Reinventing Your Business Model,” as well as his new book titled Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Prior to co-founding Innosight, Mark was a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he advised clients on managing innovation and implementing comprehensive change programs. Before that, he served as a nuclear power-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. Mark received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in civil engineering and engineering mechanics from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy. He currently serves on the board of SemiLEDS, an LED manufacturing company, and the U.S. Naval Institute. | |
| Rudolph Lohmeyer Director Global Business Policy Council A.T. Kearney Rudolph Lohmeyer is a Director in A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council. Prior to joining the firm, he founded the Lohmeyer Group. In that role, he advised corporate and government clients on strategic foresight, future-driven strategy and policy design and collaborative innovation. His clients included Global Fortune 500 corporations and leading government institutions. He also speaks to a wide range of audiences on strategic foresight and the changing nature of strategy, geopolitics and the forces of institutional natural selection. Previously, Mr. Lohmeyer served in a non-political role as the Senior Advisor for Long-Term Strategic Planning at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Strategic Planning, where he was responsible for all long-term strategic planning initiatives including development of the joint Department of State/USAID Strategic Plan. In that role, he conceived, designed and led Project Horizon – a joint 3-year, 15-agency scenario-based strategic planning initiative. This project was unprecedented in its scale, scope, and innovation-driven approach. Mr. Lohmeyer also designed and led the subsequent Department of State 2025 project in support of the Secretary of State’s bi-partisan Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy. This year-long effort applied analytical foresight techniques to assess the future of diplomacy. Mr. Lohmeyer received his BA from Stanford University, his MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Masters of International Policy from The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies, with honors for his work on the China-US strategic relationship. | |
| Lon B. Southerland Senior Director of Global Food and Beverage Marriott International Lon B. Southerland is Senior Director of Global Food and Beverage for Marriott International, where he leads key initiatives, ensuring program rollout and maintenance efforts are seamless and timely. He is recognized as a subject-matter expert in the retail fresh food, specialty coffee/coffeehouse, quick-serve and on-the-go retail-foodservice businesses | |
