Olga Lopategui, Restaurant Loyalty Specialists

Founder, Restaurant Loyalty Specialists After a 15-year career in brand and international franchise marketing at global giants like Pizza Hut, KFC, and TGI Fridays, Olga identified a critical gap in the industry: while restaurant chains are proficient at collecting...

Maia Tekle, Science On Call

Director of Business Development, Science On Call Maia is the Director of Business Development at Science on Call, an AI-powered tech support platform for restaurants. She has 17 years of business development, sales and early-stage startup experience. Her career...

Lori Primavera, Smoothie King

  Lori Primavera is VP of R&D and Product Marketing at Smoothie King, one of the largest smoothie destinations in the world and the first health and fitness fast casual brand of its kind. An experienced leader in Food Innovation for over 20 years, Lori joined...

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Zipline

CEO & Founder, Zipline Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the largest commercial autonomous system on Earth. With autonomous delivery operations in four continents and more than 100 million commercial autonomous miles flown, the company...

Hans Lammeman, Food On Demand

Reporter, Food On Demand Hans is a reporter for Food On Demand. He draws on years of award-winning community journalism experience in his approach to covering news in his current role. With an admiration for detail-oriented research and a fascination with cutting-edge...

Phil Friedman

CEO, Salsarita’s Fresh Mexican Grill Philip is chairman & CEO of Salsarita’s Fresh Mexican Grill, n 65-location casual Mexican restaurant chain which he acquired through his holding company, Mississippi Restaurant Group LLC in June of 2011. Prior to...