Josh Domingues is the founder and CEO of Flashfood, a mobile platform helping retailers reduce their food waste in a profitable way.

Josh founded Flashfood in 2016 after reading about the environmental effects of food waste. Determined to make a difference, Josh often cites that if international food waste were a country, it would be the third leading cause of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) behind the US and China. To date, Flashfood has sold over 50% of all the food made available through its platform that would have otherwise been shrink.

Josh started his career as an investment advisor before spending time as a management consultant and a Vice President at a family office that managed financial and personal affairs for professional hockey players.

Mike Lee is the founder of Studio Industries, a food product design & innovation studio, and the Future Market, a futurist food lab that explores what our food system could look like in the year 2065 through pop-up experiences and conceptual product prototypes. Mike is also co-founder of Alpha Food Labs, an Innovation Lab for next-gen food startups and corporations building products that are better for by People, Planet, and Profit.

Mike’s experience in food design & innovation has covered a wide range over the past 10 years. Prior to Studio Industries & The Future Market, Mike led product development initiatives on the Innovation & New Ventures team at Chobani. At Chobani, Mike focused on building out the Greek Yogurt maker’s savory product platform (Chobani Meze) and drove the product design process from research, insights and ideation, to food, flavor and packaging development, and then finally to business planning and production.

Mike also founded the Studiofeast underground supperclub, a sister organization to Studio Industries. Studiofeast creates unique dining experiences that use food as a medium to design experiences that range from the artful, to the educational, to the hedonistic. Mike is a frequent and influential speaker on food innovation and has been featured in numerous publications and conferences such as PSFK, SXSW, Seeds & Chips, EXPO 2015 Milano, Fancy Food Show, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, FastCo Exist, CNBC, Edible Brooklyn, Food Navigator, and more.

Mike is the grandson and son of Chinese restaurant owners in Detroit and was raised in those kitchens and dining rooms. He was trained in Business at the University of Michigan and Design at the Parsons School of Design. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Brad Oberwager founded, owned, and served as CEO of multiple snack-food and technology companies. He is currently founder and CEO of Jyve, a talent marketplace and business optimization platform for brands and retailers based in San Francisco. Prior to Jyve, Brad owned Bare Snacks, acquired in 2014 by VMG. Brad also founded and is chairman of Sundia Fruit, maker of chilled fruit snacks and is the owner and chairman of Good Greens, a plant-based protein bar. He was the president of more.com following the acquisition of his firm, Acumins, and was CEO of Blue Tiger/OpenWebs.

Brad sits on the board Kettle & Fire (bone broth) and is a formal advisor to NatureBox (healthy snacks) and Brami Snacks (baked Lupini beans) as well as several technology start-ups. He is vice-chair of YPO, a 26,000-member, a global organization of CEOs.

Brad founded Jyve in 2015 to create a world where people want to work, not just have to work. Jyve enables CPG brands and retailers to connect with quality-certified talent who accomplish a variety of in-store jobs including Auditing, Brand Ambassadorship, Display Building, E-Fulfillment Shopping, Merchandising, Ordering, Stocking, and more. Jyve leverages proprietary technology to dynamically surface in-store jobs to their talent network and give real-time visibility to their clients.