Gerrit Feuerriegel

Entrepreneurial and ambitious CEO & Founder with 10+ years’ experience working for global food, agriculture, biotech & chemical corporates as well as startups in leadership roles for up to 35 FTE teams.

Founded SMC - Shyft Management Consulting as specialized consultancy in the sustainable food & material sectors to advice for instance VCs & PEs via commercial, technical & scientific due diligence and target search projects. Also, advised on board, SVP and VP level global FMCG, food processing, chemical, biotechnology & ingredient companies such as Danone, BASF, IFFCO, Unilever, Kraft Heinz, Cargill, ABInBev, and Givaudan.

First-hand experience as CEO for an agri-food AI software startup, Interim CCO for a biomass fermentation startup and Interim CSO for a precision fermentation startup in pre-seed, seed & series A stages.

Ex-EY M&A Consultant and Ex-Kearney Management Consultant up to project lead level.

Team player, sustainability driven, down-to-earth, and eager to learn with a practical and structured approach to problem-solving. Build a large global network of VC partners & senior managers, innovation professionals as well as experts & freelancing consultants in food-tech, biotechnology & material science.

Very strong expertise in sustainable food, material and biotechnology sector solutions as well as the broader bioeconomy and circular economy. Worked on numerous market entry, supply chain assessment, due diligence, post-merger-integration, startup & technology scouting, business plan development & assessment, sustainability strategy development and similar projects.