Who are we?
- Wade Newville, MBA (23D), discovered his passion for food & agriculture during a college gap year tour around the world. He then managed billion-dollar P&Ls in packaged food and produce, co-developed and launched 9-figure consumer product brands at Walmart. He left the Fortune 1 company to move to France and internationally scale Gorillas, the fastest-growing startup in the world.
- Zoé Toulouse, MBA (23D), trained as a professional baker at Ferrandi Paris and worked in fine-dining for Chef Dan Barber at his New York 2 Michelin-starred farm-to-table restaurant Blue Hill at Stone Barns. After several years of baking and working on experimental wheat breeding projects, Zoé became a consultant to top bakeries in New York and Paris, specialising in sustainable sourcing.
Our combined experiences cover the food system value chain thoroughly: from ingredient sourcing, to food preparation, product development, marketing, logistics, and merchandising. Both deeply driven by sustainability and understanding how to do better in business, for both our health and our planet’s, we set out on our SSUP tour to meet with founders in the sustainable Food and AgTech ecosystem in France.
In our blogs, we share some of the many reflections we pulled from our conversations with founders thinking about the future of our food.
Post 1: For the future of agriculture, the past is a good place to start
Post 2: Thinking smartly about what we already produce
INSEAD SUMMER STARTUP TOUR 