Jared Ginn

Jared comes to Food Shift with extensive experience in the food industry, from working summers in kitchens/delis as a teenager to doing food product development/R&D work for large food retailers and manufacturers like Safeway after college. After becoming more interested in health and community building, he shifted his focus to working with food companies with more creative solutions towards health, wellness, and sustainability. He has developed a range of CPG products and brands, from perishable goods to innovative healthy snacks and beverages, leading everything from ideation to commercialization, and working side by side with manufacturers, co-packers, and the USDA. Right before the pandemic, Jared also founded a social enterprise catering company to help hire and train formerly incarcerated individuals.

After working at Food Shift as Social Enterprise Innovations Manager, he now serves Food Shift as Food Research & Innovation Advisor. He is excited to combine his background in food science, social entrepreneurship, and culinary with his values and passions for sustainability, food justice, and food equity.  He currently works at Mattson developing new food products.

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