Navigating the Supply Chain Crisis in 2022

Josh Gellert serves as President of Camerican International. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Josh began his career as an investment banker at JP Morgan Chase. After graduating from business school, Josh worked in management consulting at Oliver Wyman and brand management at Nestle. Josh joined Camerican in 2009. He is a member of various trade associations and serves as a Board Member for the Association of Food Industries (AFI) and as a Committee Member for the American Frozen Food Association (AFFI).

Astrid is the Founder and CEO of TIKO Global, a trading company focused on food commodities, and the rescued food market. TIKO products are sold into food service and retail through the TIKO BASICS, and La Dama brands. TIKO aims to democratize b2b commerce with an integrated wholesale marketplace that empowers stakeholders across the supply chain powered by blockchain.

Astrid comes from a fourth generation food trading family, where she continues to run the family investments through her family office as CIO. Astrid previously spent 15 years executing private equity transactions, and was named one of the Most Influential Women in M&A by Mergers& Acquisitions while raising the first-time fund of one of the members of the Goya foods family. She started her investment career at Audax Group in Boston, where she attended Harvard Law School and Suffolk University.

Astrid is a serial entrepreneur focused on food, transformative technologies for the supply chain, and clean energy. She empowers women through the M&A deal making company she co-founded Exponent.

Jonathan specializes in enterprise business transformation serving clients in healthcare, life sciences, real estate and manufacturing & distribution. Jonathan’s more than 30 years of experience encompass technology assessment, systems implementation, organizational change management and leadership, business and process transformation, and organizational assessment and design. Jonathan has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management, cum laude, with a dual academic concentration in Operations Research and Finance from Case Western Reserve University.

Michael Tran is a Managing Director within the Global Energy Strategy Research team at RBC Capital Markets based in New York. He is responsible for views pertaining to energy markets including macro supply and demand fundamentals. Michael also leads RBC’s Digital Intelligence Strategy research platform, a newly formed data science driven team. The mission of DIS is to leverage alternative data sets to identify the hidden themes in society to unearth actionable investment opportunities spurred by changes in societal behavior and real time global events. Michael has spent nearly 15 years in research, sales and trading and investment banking with major banks like UBS based in London and energy trading platforms like BP based in Calgary.

Michael's market views are frequently quoted in media outlets and he routinely appears on television networks like Bloomberg, CNBC and BNN. He is a frequent advisor to both the Canadian Federal and Alberta government on issues pertaining to energy policy and budgeting. He serves on the Advisory Board of Orbital Insight, a Silicon Valley based Artificial Intelligence tech company where his work lies at the intersection of Big Oil and Big Data. Michael is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. He also serves on the Board of the New York Energy Forum and on the Business Committee of the US Association of Energy Economists (USAEE). He graduated with distinction from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Economics.