Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the NBJ Summit. We provide content highlights, industry updates, and tips on how to get the most out of the Executive Summit. We also provide a snapshot of this year’s theme: Empowered Leadership: Illumination the Path from Foundation to Future. It honors the nutrition industry’s past in promoting responsible growth, stewardship and innovation for future generations.
What to expect:
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Insights on the summit’s agenda from co-chairs Jessica Rubino and Tom Ertz, NBJ Editor-in-Chief Rick Polito, and special guest Dr. Pamela Peek.
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Watch the full story of Dr. Peake’s session, “Insights into the Women’s Health Revolution.” There, we discuss the increasing opportunities to address women’s health issues with natural solutions.
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Tips on how to get the most out of your NBJ Summit experience, whether you attend virtually or in-person.
Watch this LinkedIn Live event on Thursday, May 23rd at 9am (Montana time).
speaker
Jessica Rubino, VP of Content
new hope network
Jessica Rubino is a natural foods industry expert and content strategist with over 15 years of experience in media, events, and natural foods. As Vice President of Content for New She Hope Network, Jessica oversees digital she content and print content, conference programming, CPG, brand she content for retailers, investors and service providers. Jessica is passionate about harnessing innovation as a force for good and using content to create the change she wants to see in the world.
Rick Polito, Editor-in-Chief
New Hope Network’s Nutrition Business Journal
Nutrition Business Journal Editor-in-Chief Rick Polito writes about trends, deals, and developments in the natural nutrition industry, and looks for the small companies coming up and the big money coming. An award-winning journalist, Rick knows that facts and figures never show up. We’ll give you the full background and explain that the story of this industry is always about people.
Tom Aarts, Founder and Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
Nutrition Business Advisors, Nutrition Capital Network, NBJ Summit
Tom Aarts is a principal at Nutrition Capital Network and managing director of Nutrition Business Advisors LLC, a strategic advisory firm focused on the nutrition industry. He is a co-founder of his Nutrition Business Journal, and he is the founder and co-chair of the NBJ Summit, the nutrition industry’s leading executive training group. Previously, Tom was a founding partner of Health Business Partners, an investment banking and consulting firm serving the natural products industry. He has over 20 years of experience in management consulting, M&A transactions, investment analysis, and market research. Tom manages sales for Nutrition 21 and has advised many leading nutrition industry companies on strategy and direction, including GNC, Rexall, Nestle, Bayer, and Cargill.
Pamela Peake, PhD, MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, Founder and CEO
Peak Performance Center for Healthy Living
Dr. Pamela Peek is a nationally recognized physician, scientist, and thought leader in the fields of women’s health, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Peek is a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism, she holds a dual master’s degree in public health and policy, and she is a fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Sports Medicine. There is also. Dr. Peek is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine Foundation Board of Directors and an honorary member of the Board of Directors.
Dr. Peek is a thought leader and faculty member at the Harvard University Coaching Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Peek received a National Health Research Scientific Fellowship and an Intramural Research Training Award while conducting original research on stress hormone expression in adipocytes as a Senior Research Fellow in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. . As a senior clinical researcher and author, Dr. Peek is currently overseeing a national trial using new digital technologies to address women’s health issues.
Dr. Peek is the chair of the Better Being Scientific Advisory Board and the physician architect of the new Solaray Her Life Stages brand. Dr. Peek is a three-time New York Times bestselling author, highly acclaimed TED speaker, former chief medical correspondent for Discovery Health TV, regular multimedia medical commentator, and author of Women’s Health and Life. Top of Style She is also the host of Rank’s podcast HER. Dr. Peek has been nationally recognized by the fitness and nutrition industry for her continued leadership and expertise. Dr. Peek is a member of the National Senior Games Foundation Board of Directors and a Senior Olympic triathlete.
