Charlotte Henshaw

Charlotte is the World Champion in both KL2 and VL3 200m from this year at Szeged Worlds and broke World Records in both events at this competition. Charlotte also won at the 2018 World Championships in Montemor O Velho and took bronze in the VL3 200m race. Earlier in the year she competed at the European Championships in Belgrade winning a silver medal in the KL2 200m and took another silver at World Cup 1 in Szeged. 2019 is Charlotte’s third season in canoeing having transferred from Para-Swimming after the Rio 2016 Paralympics and she has achieved a podium in every race she started in internationally.

Nick Morgan

Nick works closely with companies in sport, active and lifestyle nutrition regarding their approach to innovation. Nick began his career as an exercise physiologist in elite sport before working at GSK and then subsequently establishing his own company in 2010. Nick’s primary focus in on how our understanding of science, the consumer and the market integrates to underpin business strategy and innovation.

Shane Starling

Shane Starling is a 25-year+ journalist, analyst and communications specialist focused mostly in food, nutrition and technology. He is the former senior editor of NutraIngredients, FoodNavigator and other publications in the food and nutrition space where he extensively covered sports nutrition. He helped found the NutraIngredients Awards and is the founder of communications agency, Stardust Komms. A west Australian, he lives in Berlin, Germany. He likes cycling and wok cooking and thinks better nutrition is an under-utilised superpower.

Cedric Bourges

Cedric Bourges has a PhD in Pharmacy; he has also done post-graduate studies in Pharmacology, a MBA and a master degree in Food Law. In January 2006, he created the consultancy NUTRAVERIS and surrounded himself with numerous experts, experienced executives coming from industry, mastering various and complementary know-how (formulation, manufacturing processes, clinical studies, research, preparation of European files, regulatory affairs), or narrowly specialized and synergetic training (Pharmacist, Doctors in Physiopathology, Biochemistry engineers, Agro-food engineers, Master-s degree in Law and in Nutrition and Health, Dietitians).

Drew Price

Drew Price is a Nutritionist and consultant. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in the health, fitness and nutrition industries including food producers, retailers, gym chains and supplement manufacturers. He also delivers sports and exercise nutrition support for athletes and teams including Olympians and the top flight of football and rugby.

Drew holds a Masters in Nutrition and a Bachelor’s in Biochemistry, and is currently working on Doctoral research at the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, using human trials to assess the impact of whey protein on cardiometabolic health and function.

Drew writes for a number of industry and general health and lifestyle publications, and is the author of The DODO Diet (Vermilion), a book blending the best of nutrition coaching with intermittent fasting

Anna Sward

Anna Sward is a PhD, consultant, and the founder/CEO of Protein Pow: a consumer snacking brand and educational platform dedicated to inspiring people to use protein powders as a nutrition-dense ingredient in everyday cooking. She is the author of Protein Pow(d)er: The Cookbook (2013), The Ultimate Protein Powder Cookbook (2014; 2018), and Protein Pow: Quick and Easy Snacks (2017)

Dr Astrid Stuckelberger

Scientist, Author & Inspirational Speaker
Faculty of Medicine – University of Geneva and Lausanne

Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger is a scientist, lecturer and author at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva and Lausanne. International expert in ageing and population ageing issues, her research is focussing on innovation and technology as solutions to the challenges of ageing, in particular with preventative and regenerative measures for chronic diseases and pathological ageing. She published 10 books, and more than 170 scientific articles, policy papers, governmental, European Commission or UN reports.

Dr Adam Carey

CEO of Corperformance

Adam is Chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA) and Founder and CEO of Corperformance. After qualifying from the University of Oxford Medical School in 1988, Adam spent 10 years training towards specialist qualifications in obstetrics and gynaecology with clinical and research interest focussed on endocrinology and nutrition. After leaving the NHS, Adam has been providing scientific nutritional solutions to elite athletes, corporate clients and media artists to improve their performance in the field, in the boardroom and on stage. He worked with the England Rugby Football Union from 1999 to 2006 as part of Sir Clive Woodward’s team which culminated with the World Cup success in 2003. In 2005 he worked with the England Cricket squad, leading to their success in the Ashes. Other sports clients have included Chelsea FC (Premiership title 2005) and Leeds Tykes (Powergen cup 2005).

Viviana Spaghetti

Director, The Whitehouse Consultancy

Viviana is responsible for providing regulatory and strategic advice to a wide range of clients in the UK and the EU on policy issues related to food and nutrition policy, public health and digital policy.

Viviana has an in-depth knowledge of EU politics and policies, having held positions in Brussels and London, advising clients on how to shape and influence European and national policies. Currently she works for the Whitehouse Consultancy and manages the secretariat of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance.

Viviana holds a Masters in European Public Policy from King’s College London and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Milan and the University Jean Moulin in Lyon, France.

Ewa Hudson

Head of Market Insights, Global Brands

Ewa is in charge of the content strategy for Lumina Intelligence, a business intelligence service from William Reed providing market insights for high growth food and nutrition markets. Prior to that Ewa managed the global Health and Wellness, Nutrition and Ethical Labels industries at Euromonitor International. Ewa is a presenter at key industry events around the world and a judge at nutraceutical product award events. Ewa has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Poznan, Poland and has also studied postgraduate Marketing at the University of Westminster in London.

Shona McCallin

Hockey player and Olympic gold medalist

A rising British hockey star, Shona McCallin began playing hockey at the age of six and has since found herself on a rapid ascent through the ranks of elite international hockey. In 2007, McCallin made her International debut on England’s U16 squad, in what would be the first of a remarkable 85 junior international caps. McCallin is now a prolific senior level international player. She lives and trains full-time with the English national team just outside of London. She achieved her 50th combined international appearance for Great Britain and England during the Rio Olympic Final, a historic night for Great Britain Hockey. The team created history and won Great Britain’s first ever Olympic Gold medal in women’s hockey with over 9 million people watching. Shona is passionate about helping others achieve their goals through nutrition and fitness.

Ross Austen

Business Development Manager at LGC Informed-Choice & Informed-Sport

Ross is Vice Chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance and Business Development Manager at LGC Informed-Choice & Informed-Sport.

Ross started his career at LGC as a Graduate Scientist focusing on sweat testing and hormonal profiling of athletes ahead of the London 2012 games in collaboration with UK Sport. Following this Ross was drafted into the Supplement Testing team within LGC and the day to day job shifted to screening nutritional products for the presence of banned substances via mass spectrometry.  Ross is now part of the global business development team within Informed-Sport/Choice with a specific focus on the following territories UK, Europe, South Africa and India. He strives for the day that inadvertent doping is a thing of the past.

Jenna Downing

World Champion Skater

Inline skating champion Jenna Downing is an LG Action Sports World Champion, a 10 times British Champion and former X-Games silver medallist. A natural competitor, Jenna has competed in inline skating events since the age of 7 and has amassed a lifetime of awards competing across the globe in televised and major international events. After turning professional at the age 12 (making Jenna the youngest female skater in the world to do so) Jenna has gone on to become an institution in British rollerblading. Her Sporting Ambassador award and her UK Freesports Athlete of the year award are a testament to her fantastic ability and commitment to skating.

Mark Gilbert

Co-founder of FitnessGenes

Mark is the Vice-Chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance and Co-founder of FitnessGenes. He has been involved in Fitness and Sports Nutrition for over 20 years, has a BSc in nutrition and has certifications in sports nutrition, exercise and pharmaceuticals. He has been involved in product research & development, patent/IP work, marketing, labelling and provided regulatory advice whilst working for and with over a dozen of the world’s top sports supplement companies.

Currently, Mark spends much of his time as an independent consultant. Mark writes and is on the advisory board for three top fitness magazines and has a degree in Nutrition, is a certified sports nutritionist, has studied exercise science and worked with several high-profile athletes.

Claudia Mucciardi

Regulatory Affairs Manager for EMEA at Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN)

Claudia is the Vice-Chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance and Regulatory Affairs Manager for EMEA at Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN). She is responsible for the compliance of some of the biggest players of sports nutrition in the region, with brands such as Optimum Nutrition, BSN and Nutramino. Her brand portfolios cover a range of sports nutrition products such as protein and pre-workout powders, protein and energy bars, meal replacement products, as well as RTDs and capsules/tablets. Claudia has over 7 years’ experience in compliance of sports foods and supplements.

Claudia has extensive knowledge and experience working with harmonised EU legislation as well as dealing with challenges which arise from differing national legislation, or from various interpretations of existing food law.

Ian Craig

 Editor of Functional Sports Nutrition magazine

With his joint academic backgrounds in exercise physiology and nutritional therapy and a 20-year career as a British middle-distance athlete, Ian has been developing the concept of integrative sports nutrition since 2007; a fast-evolving discipline that considers both the health and performance of an athlete from an integrative health perspective. He is the author of Wholesome Nutrition and the editor of UK magazine Functional Sports Nutrition.

Additionally, Ian is a clinical practitioner. His client base ranges from chronic health cases, such as autoimmunity, through recreational and elite athletes, to sports and lifestyle induced low-grade chronic fatigue syndrome. Ian is a professional member of the British Association for Applied Nutrition & Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).

Luca Bucchini

Managing Director of Hylobates Consulting

Luca is Vice-Chair of the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance and Managing Director of Hylobates Consulting. He is an expert in food and food supplement law, and a food risk scientist. Luca co-founded the food and cosmetics consultancy Hylobates and his team has registered thousands of sports nutrition products and food supplements across Europe, advising businesses, small and very large, on compliance with EU law.

Luca is also one of the directors of EuroFIR, the European non-profit organization of food composition databases. In recent years, he has been principal scientist on the pre-assessment team on a contract for EFSA, and has participated in several European Commission, and managed the PlantLIBRA project on plant food supplement, which helped start the Belfrit initiative on botanicals.