Speaker profile
Claire Sand
Dr. Sand is Owner and Founder of Packaging Technology and Research, LLC and Gazelle Mobile Packaging Inc and an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University and CalPoly and Food Technology’s monthly Packaging columnist and a monthly contributor to Packaging Digest. She is an IFT Fellow, Riester-Davis-Brody life-time achievement in food packaging award recipient, serves on numerous Editorial Boards, is the author of the Packaging Value Chain, and is co-chair of pacfoodwaste. Claire has held previous basic research, development market research, and marketing positions in Germany, Colombia, and Thailand and at Total Quality Marketing, Nestle, General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Safeway, and academia. Dr. Sand holds a doctorate in Food Science and Nutrition from the University of Minnesota and MS and BS in Packaging from Michigan State University.