EDITORIAL-DETAILS (JFN)
Akiva T Gross
Adjunct professor
Purdue University
USA
Biography
March 2011 - A.T. Gross Consulting, Ltd. Akiva Gross Started his consulting business, focusing on advising food and related industries in the areas of food ingredients R&D, technology strategy and product development. Dr. Gross served as co-founder, Senior Vice President of Research & Development, and a member of the Board of Directors for Opta Food ingredients, Inc., which develops, manufactures, and markets novel food ingredients. His responsibilities included all aspects of R&D, as well as regulatory affairs and commercialization of new ingredients. Opta Food Ingredients was established as a spin-off company of Enzytech, Inc., where Dr. Gross was a co-founder and Vice President of R&D. Dr. Gross received his doctoral degree in Organic Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute in Israel and was awarded the Postdoctoral Weizmann Fellowship. He continued his scientific training in Applied Enzymology in the chemistry departments of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Gross is the author of twenty-two publications and the inventor of seventeen patents. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Purdue University, the Food Science Department and at the Whistler Center of Carbohydrate Research. Dr. Gross is a Board member of the Weizmann Institute Midwest region in the US and a Board member of the Institute of Clinical Social Work, Chicago.
Research Interest
Food ingredients R&D, technology strategy and product development.