Eyal Shimoni

FOOD, HEALTH & PLANET. Food Tech expert * Board Member * Mentor * Advisor * Consultant * Connecting dots * Optimist * Writer * Speaker * Thinker * Ultra-runner

I am a Tech and Food-Tech expert, father of three, trail runner, keynote speaker, writer and guitar player. This website is also about running, life, psychology, as well as lessons learned about life when it is merged in the running experience. It is also about my journey as I pursue the “4 deserts” challenge covering 1,000km in four 250km multi-day, self supported races in Gobi in Mongolia, the Red Desert in Namibia, Antarctica and the Atacama in Chile.

I am a Senior R&D, Tech and Food-Tech expert – Industry and Academia, with extensive technical and program leadership experience in technology development, innovation and relationship building.

Open for opportunities for innovation consulting, mentoring/coaching of startups, angel investments as well as advisory or board positions

• Developing and executing winning strategies in R&D and Innovation. Designed and executed technology strategy, Nutrition, New Technologies & Industry 4.0 at Strauss Group. Received the “European CTO of the year” award in 2017.

• Organizing, leading and motivating R&D teams against company objectives. Restructuring and building/coaching international R&D organizations. Established, BOD and investment committee member of “The Kitchen FoodTech hub” – FoodTech incubator. Led the creation of the EIT Food Accelerators Network (FAN). Founder and chair of the Israeli Food IoT – Big Data consortia to enable connectivity throughout the value chain and bring about a paradigm shift in which food is produced.

• Experience in due diligence, licensing and acquisitions

• Establishing open innovation platforms and communities. Setting the vision and accelerating the cultural change inside the Strauss Group, allowing new forms of partnership and fostering open dialogue with innovators, accelerators, start-ups, and investors.

• Great passion for climate tech in the agro-food sector. Chaired the AMCHAM ISRAEL Climate and Environment Forum for promoting sustainable practices, technologies, regulation and projects.

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