Evan is a highly experienced Managing Director and Board member and has over 20+ commercial and leadership experience within the healthcare and biotechnology sectors. He is currently the Asia Pacific Managing Director of Factors Group, Canada's largest natural health company. Prior to this Evan was the Director of Sourcing and Product Development at Australia's largest natural health company, Blackmores, leading the procurement, technical, new product development, and strategic sourcing divisions and managed a budget of $250m. He is a highly respected scientist, specialising in medicines, both natural and biotech and has the capability of leveraging deep technical skills with developing real commercial outcomes. Evan is considered a world leader in probiotics having worked in research and product development in this space for over 20 years, formulating over 30% Market share of the probiotic products in market in Australia and has been responsible for notable leaps in this space, most recently with a world first ‘Scobiotics’ product.

Evan will be part of Probiotics session on Day 2.