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Fill the Gaps in Your Innovation Capabilities,
On-Demand
From ideation roadblocks to market insights and scientific challenges, GourmetPro introduces you to the elite F&B talents ready to drive your next breakthrough.
Elevate your team with precision-matched expertise, precisely when you need it.
Christine Couvelier
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GourmetPro Expert
Product Innovation
Peter Husted Sylvest
GourmetPro Expert
Commercial
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Denise Kwok
GourmetPro Expert
GTM Expert
Jay Mota
GourmetPro Expert
Food Scientist
Phaedra Ruffalo
GourmetPro Expert
Innovation Project Leader
Marc Matsumoto
GourmetPro Expert
Market Insight Expert
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Raphaelle O'Connor
GourmetPro Expert
Food Scientist
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Jerome Dupont
GourmetPro Expert
Commercial
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Unrivaled Experience in F&B Innovation
Steer clear of innovation pitfalls by hiring our top-tier talent.
Our fractional managers are seasoned innovation leaders guiding your teams, maintaining a sharp focus on milestones and deliverables, ultimately propelling your innovation journey toward recurring success.
Innovation Project Leaders
Innovation Project Leaders are the vanguards of the food industry's future. Navigating the dynamic landscape of consumer preferences, they strategize, conceptualize, and lead the charge in bringing groundbreaking products to market. At the crossroads ideation and execution, they turn your opportunities into tangible, market-ready solutions.
Critical Challenges They Master
Stakeholders Engagement
Creating a cohesive narrative, fostering collaboration between cross-functional teams, and steering all towards a unified goal.
Ideation Bottlenecks
Breaking through creative stagnation and infusing fresh, disruptive thinking into the ideation process.
Project Continuity
Seamlessly transitioning projects through various development stages, mitigating risks and maximizing momentum.
With over 20 years in global food innovation, I’ve led and mentored teams that have successfully brought over 800 products to life. With fractional hiring, you can leverage my expertise without the full-time commitment. This flexible approach allows your organization to tap into high-level insights and strategies, ensuring we innovate, scale, and drive success together.
Strengths They Bring to the Table
Capability Augmentation
They're not just contributors; they're multipliers, elevating the skillsets of those around them.
Streamlined Ideation
With a deep understanding of ideation processes and prototyping, they expedite the journey from concept to product.
NPD Blueprinting
Their expertise in stage-gate and RACI management ensures clarity, structure, and efficiency in project progression.
A Real-world Example
- Client: Chief Innovation Officer, global beverage leader (top 50)
- Briefing: Lead a strategic innovation initiative in a core-market, coach the local cross-functional team, strengthen the local NPD capabilities
Duration
9 Months
Time commitment
2 Days a week
Monthly Budget
16,000
USD
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Market Insights Experts
Dive deeper than surface-level data. Market Insights Experts at GourmetPro aren’t mere data crunchers; they are the strategic compasses guiding brands through the intricate labyrinths of consumer psyche, market nuances, and emerging culinary narratives.
Critical Challenges They Master
Decoding Consumer Pulse
Navigating vast data landscapes to understand and anticipate consumer behavior, ensuring your brand remains relevant and resonant.
Staying Ahead in the Product Race
Monitoring the dynamic retail and foodservice arena, ensuring you're always ready to counter or capitalize on emerging innovations.
Local Culinary Complexity
Deciphering diverse and evolving culinary trends and evaluating their alignment with global food movements.
With three decades under my chef's hat in Foodservice, I've masterminded culinary innovations that have delighted palates and soared in sales. Now, through fractional hiring with GourmetPro, your brand can harness my culinary prowess without the constraints of a full-time commitment. This model empowers your brand to absorb unparalleled insights, fuse trends with tradition, and co-create culinary marvels that resonate with today's discerning consumer. Together, we’ll plate up success.
Strengths They Bring to the Table
Insight Alchemy
Unearthing golden consumer insights from vast market terrains.
Local-Global Fusion
Perfectly balancing global trends with local tastes and cultural intricacies.
Decision Science
Making every move data-backed, ensuring precision and efficacy.
A Real-world Example
- Client: Innovation & Insights Director, global confectionary leader (top 5)
- Briefing: Uncover prospective local trends and size emerging segments, to validate global strategic priorities
Duration
12 Months
Time commitment
0.5 Days a week
Monthly Budget
3,800
USD
Seeking a Lens into the Food Market's Future?
Schedule a callFood Scientists
In the intricate dance of science and taste, Food Scientists are your choreographers. Positioned at the intersection of research, taste, and consumer needs, they're the magic behind every bite. While trends change, their unwavering dedication ensures that every product isn't just innovative, but also sustainable, nutritious, and irresistibly delicious.
Critical Challenges They Master
Agile Formulation
Perfecting prototyping, integrating new technologies and ingredients, especially when tapping into new food categories.
Sensorial Mastery
Implementing data-driven processes that guarantee each product meets precise taste and texture expectations.
Superior Impact
Ensuring products deliver heightened nutritional benefits, and aligning with higher sustainability standards.
With my extensive background, from founding Uplift Food – the world's first dietitian-crafted functional snacking brand – to being a recognized gut health expert featured in Forbes and FoodNavigator, I've positioned brands globally for success. Leveraging fractional hiring at GourmetPro, your brand can efficiently tap into my deep prebiotic expertise, ensuring that your products not only innovate but also strategically dominate their market niche.
Strengths They Bring to the Table
Innovative Insights
Keeping abreast of the latest in food technologies and ingredients to keep your brand on the cutting edge.
Knowledge Amplification
Elevating your brand's internal expertise by building robust food science capabilities.
Nutritional Expertise
Vetted assessments of products, ensuring they match up to health claims and nutritional benefits.
A Real-world Example
- Client: Regional R&D Director, Dairy Leader (Top 10)
- Briefing: Expansion into the plant-based category, R&D expertise gaps
Duration
9 Months
Time commitment
1 Day a week
Monthly Budget
5,500
USD
Seeking Solid Science Behind Your Next Product?
Schedule a callHire GourmetPro Talent
Christine Couvelier
Product Development
Christine Couvelier is a renowned global culinary trendologist, executive chef, and culinary executive known for her unwavering passion for food innovation and sustainability. With a career spanning several decades, she has left an indelible mark on the culinary world.
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Phaedra Ruffalo
Innovation Project Leader
A food futurist building concepts to scale, Phaedra is an influential, inspirational executive leader in global food innovation marketing with 20+ years of experience driving successful organizational strategies as a creative and insightful problem solver in the food service and retail channels.
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Dan Follese
Innovation Project Leader
Dan is a veteran of Foodservice with over 30 years of experience in cooking up new ideas that delight the masses. As a classically trained chef, he leads Food Trend Translator, a food innovation marketing firm that goes beyond passion. Dan and his team work with food manufacturers and restaurant operators, offering innovation, results, and connections. They specialize in understanding the complexities of creating innovative foods that drive crave-ability and sales.
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Raphaelle O'Connor
Innovation Project Leader
Raphaelle is highly experienced in the ideation, development and commercialization of food chemistry, food science and food technology using strategic partnership, collaboration and systematic governance processes in the functional foods and beverages, health and wellness categories.
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Jerome Dupont
Innovation Project Leader
Jerome is a Senior Manager in the realm of Food & Flavors, boasting a wealth of expertise in spearheading new business ventures and projects, from the initial market insights all the way to the triumphant product launch. His career journey has spanned multinational corporations and entrepreneurial endeavors, underscoring his versatile and cross-functional skill set.
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Kara Landau
Innovation Project Leader
Kara Landau is a passionate and progressive entrepreneur, registered dietitian, product innovation consultant, and media spokesperson. With expertise in prebiotics, unique brand positioning offerings, media communications, and relationship development, Kara creates win-win opportunities in the industry.
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Talk to one of our Industry Experts
An expert on your team will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics
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Work With Hand-selected Talent
Within days, we'll introduce you to the right talent for your project. Average time to match is less than 24 hours.
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The Right Fit, Guaranteed
Work with your new team member on a trial basis (pay only if satisfied), ensuring you hire the right people for the job.
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