Global yeast technology company Renaissance BioScience Corp has appointed former Australian food executive Dr Cormac O’ Cleirigh as the company’s Chief Business Development Officer.
Dr O’Cleirigh’s extensive experience and expertise at the senior executive level in the global yeast and bakery ingredient industry will assist Renaissance in developing advanced yeast technologies for a range of global industries.
According to Renaissance CEO, Dr John Husnik, the appointment ensures an incorporation of end-use industry with consumer insights to be used in the company’s innovation agenda.
“Renaissance brings step-change technological innovation to the global yeast industry, which, through its supply of large volumes of a critical ingredient, underpins multiple other global industries,” Dr O’Cleirigh’s said.
Renaissance provides efficiency improvements along with increased functional performance and value propositions for global yeast partners and their customers.
Food and pharmaceutical industries have seen value and growth added as technology innovates large-volume manufacturing in a similar manner to bio tech investments over the last few years.
Dr O’Cleirigh’s primary responsibilities include overseeing the division’s strategic business development, focusing on developing consumer insights, evaluating competitor intelligence and identifying acquisition targets.
Renaissance Bio Science Corp is a privately held applied life sciences company that develops yeast-based platform technologies to solve industrial efficiency and consumer health problems in the food, beverage, alcohol, biofuel and pharmaceutical industries.