Maria Fontanazza, Jeremiah Johnson, and Olga Pawluczyk
Biography:
Maria Fontanazza
Editor-in-Chief
Food Safety Tech
Maria has more than a decade of experience in journalism, marketing, and communications within the publishing, conferences, and medical device industry. She has authored more than 250 articles that have appeared in domestic and international industry publications and has moderated educational sessions and panel discussions at industry events. Maria joins Innovative Publishing from Secant Medical, Inc., where she was the Marketing Communications Manager and Market Research Manager. Maria has a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications with a concentration in New Media and Visual Design, and a Minor in Fine Arts, from St. Michael’s College in Colchester, VT.
Jeremiah Johnson
Corporate Manager, Regulatory Compliance, Food Safety & Sanitation
Hormel Foods
Jeremiah Johnson is the Corporate Manager of Regulatory Compliance, Food Safety, and Sanitation at Hormel Foods, where he is responsible for implementing and training food safety and regulatory expectations in both USDA and FDA-regulated facilities. He is also a Preventive Control lead instructor for both human and animal food. Jeremiah has worked at Hormel for 16 years and previous roles have included management of QA departments at a dry sausage production facility in Iowa and a pork slaughter and further processing facility in California. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Iowa State University.
Olga Pawluczyk
Co-Founder & CEO
P&P Optica (PPO)
Olga Pawluczyk is the co-founder and CEO of P&P Optica (PPO), based in Waterloo, Ontario. Pawluczyk is an expert in medical imaging, with a technical background in systems engineering and deep knowledge of the science of spectroscopy. Under the leadership of Pawluczyk and her co-founder, her father Romek Pawluczyk, PPO launched in 2004 as a research company focused on developing spectrometers. The company evolved over the past eight years to build solutions for the food processing industry. Pawluczyk is driven by the opportunity to combine emerging technologies to significantly improve the nutritional quality, safety, and sustainability of our food.
