Our expert contributors
A fluent mandarin speaker, Ellie began her career at Thomson Reuters holding international postings across sales, marketing, and strategy functions. While Director of Government Affairs in Washington D.C., Ellie was recruited to join Monitor Deloitte. In 2017, Ellie founded QIVA Global to help international businesses build resilient brands in China. The QIVA model is built on data science, which powers everything the company does: from strategy, to brand building and sales.
de Santa Izabel is a microbiologist, bioengineer, and food-tech entrepreneur with extensive experience in product development and innovation. As the founder of YOGUT ME, a science-based start-up pioneering personalised nutrition, she combined her passions for food innovation, microbiome science, and sustainability. She has also founded Synbiotic Kitchen, an educational platform that uses fermentation as a tool to promote knowledge about gut health and the microbiome.
Foss studied nutritional therapy at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and is a nutritionist and hormone expert. She helps women over 40 struggling through the effects of peri-menopause. Foss believes that the route to balanced hormones and good health is through evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle choices and this is reflected in her work.
Marinho de Lemos is the co-founder of KÄLLA, a Swedish probiotic brand redefining gut health for the modern woman. She has 10+ years of international experience in eCommerce, marketing, and digitalisation for FMCG companies. She authored an award-winning blog and currently mentors young women at one of Stockholm's premier business schools.
Medlin is a well-recognised consultant dietitian in London with expertise in gastrointestinal and colorectal health. She worked in acute hospitals specialising in gastrointestinal diseases before moving into academia, where she worked as a lecturer at King’s College London. Medlin works as a consultant in product development for the manufacture of vitamins and probiotics.
West has helped thousands of couples get pregnant each year both naturally and through IVF. Her speciality is a holistic approach that West uses as a practising midwife, acupuncturist and author of 13 books. She has her own range of vitamin supplements to support female and male fertility, as well as pregnancy and regularly appears in the press and on television.