Food and Beverage Expert Witnesses in West Virginia

This expert's experience focuses on process design to achieve maximum efficiency and optimum food product quality. He has served as an expert in a variety of situations dealing primarily with process and equipment design. Several of the cases have involved patent litigation, including detailed review of documents, development of expert reports, appearance at depositions and testimony before juries. He graduated with a BS and MS from The Ohio State University, and a PhD from Michigan State University. His educational background emphasized the application of engineering principles and concepts to the processing of foods. This expert has held teaching positions at multiple large universities such as Michigan State University, University of Missouri, and Rutgers. He has served on multiple boards for food processing professionals, as well as been the director of multiple centers devoted to the study of food process engineering. Additionally he has published multiple textbooks and encylcopedias on food engineering and food process engineering. HE has been awarded with lifetime achivement awards as well as research awards for his work in food process engineering. He currently is a professor of food engineering at a major university, and is He is involved in teaching and research in the area of food engineering, with a focus on sustainability of the food system, and specifically on improvement in process efficiencies while enhancing product quality.

This expert has over 35 years of owning and operating independent restaurants, now "coaching" restaurateurs in purchasing, planning, opening, and operations of the business. This includes restaurant turnarounds - that is, troubled restaurants needing a coach in troubled times in ALL aspects of the restaurant business. He has advised landlords, lenders, investors, and operator/owners of independent restaurants including: Vernick Food & Drink, Philadelphia; The Pop Shop, Collingswood & Medford, NJ; The Green Line Cafes in Philadelphia; Sang Kee in Philadelphia & Cherry Hill, NJ; 320 Market Cafe in Swarthmore, PA; The Silver Spoon in Wayne, PA; and many more

This marketing expert has extensive experience in food marketing, marketing research, and consumer behavior. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with his BA in cultural anthropology and his BS in economics before earning both his MA and PhD in marketing from Yale University. He is a member of the Society for Consumer Psychology and has held positions such as board director of the Student Federal Credit Union at the University of Pennsylvania and marketing consultant at ZS Associates. This expert is also involved in his field as an author of several peer-reviewed publications and as a speaker at multiple industry conferences throughout his career. He has previously served as a consultant for major companies such as Pepsi and is currently an assistant professor in food marketing at a business school in Pennsylvania.