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#52: Caroline Heil - Driving the Future of Meat

October 28, 2021 • Christian Soschner • Season 2 • Episode 21

The industry gains complexity, and I am happy that a speaker from the LSG2G community has dedicated time to speak about the Future of the Food Industry.

Speaker in the Episode: Dr. Caroline E. Heil

Since Jul. 1, 2021, Caroline has been CEO of The New Meat Company AG, a young stock-listed, purpose-driven impact investment company in Berlin focusing on alternative proteins.

Caroline is intrigued by the idea of revolutionizing the food industry, especially everything animal production-related, in an environmentally friendly, healthy, and sustainable way that will allow us to feed +10 billion people in the future.

Before joining TNMC, Caroline worked for EY as a lawyer and part of the global EY Agribusiness Team.

The New Meat Co.

The firm invests in game-changing companies and founders that disrupt the status quo of the meat industry to create nutritious, tasty, and sustainable meat alternatives that are good for everyone – animals, humans, and our planet.

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In this conversation, we discuss the Future Of the Food Industry and talk about topics like: