Foodovate Consulting is a leading Food Innovation and Design Thinking consultancy in Ireland.

After 20 years experience of working with multinational food companies, and more recently in his own start-up food company supplying branded and own-branded desserts to the retail multiples in Ireland, Dr John Collier has seen and done it all! He has significant experience in New Product Development, Start-ups, Marketing and Digital Marketing, Production, Business Insights and Intelligence, Strategy Development, Innovation Strategies, Design Thinking and Creative Thinking.

As well as having a Ph.D in Plant Biotechnology he also hold a MSc in Strategy & Innovation and a Masters in Digital Marketing

Dr Collier specialises in:

Horticultural products including Mushrooms and novel plant ingredients

Healthy Products for specific nutritional purposes

Plant-based meat alternatives and vegan products.

A full biography is available here.