Elysabeth Alfano's Plant Based Business Hour
Elysabeth Alfano is a successful businesswoman, a strategic consultant in the plant-based business arena and a keen investor. A graduate of Northwestern University and the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Elysabeth began her career working with Fortune 500 companies (IBM-Europe and The Kellogg Company in Brand Management on Special K and Frosted Mini-Wheats) before running her own international business.
Elysabeth is the Founder of Plant Powered Consulting. Connected to almost everyone in the Who’s Who of the Plant-based World, Elysabeth enjoys helping small, medium and large businesses succeed by consulting on and executing business development, marketing/branding and PR strategies and by connecting entrepreneurs and C-Suite executives with her vast network. She also advises multinational companies on the direction, growth and white space opportunities in the marketplace.
As one of the foremost plant-based business experts in North America, Elysabeth speaks on the latest plant-based business and investment developments, analysis, and trends around the world and on major media outlets. She also speaks on issues of a shifting global food supply system, as she did recently at the U.N. Global Compant Leaders Summit, and what it represents for sustainability, climate change, food insecurity, human health, animal welfare and a growing global population.
Elysabeth produces and hosts the weekly series The Plantbased Business Hour. On PBH, Elysabeth features the venture capitalists, CEOs, analysts, innovators and entrepreneurial start-ups from around the globe who are shaping the plant-based market. PBH is the only video/audio program focusing on the exploding plant-based business arena and has been received with tremendous success.
As a Sicilian-American splitting her time between Chicago and Los Angeles, food is always the center of life for Elysabeth. She is a Licensed Food For Life Instructor with the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine and has a Certificate in Plant-based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies at E-Cornell University.
Elysabeth is also the Co-Founder of VegTech (TM): The Global Vegan Impact and Innovation Index. You can find her on Linkedin, this website and you can subscribe to The Plantbased Business Hour here.
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Former CEO of Whole Foods, Walter Rob, Talks About the Future
Former CEO of Whole Foods, Walter Rob, joins Elysabeth Alfano on Plantbased Business Hour to talk about what he's sees for the future of our food systems, in particular, the shift towards a more information-driven market in which informed consumers are equipped with the buying power to create dem...
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Billionaire Investor Jim Mellon's Vision for the Future
Billionaire investor and author of Moo's Law, Jim Mellon, joins Elysabeth Alfano's Plantbased Business Hour to talk about the future of our global food systems; in particular, Jim's promising predication for cultivated cellular meat, his predicted timeline for cellular meat to enter the market an...
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Deena Shanker (Bloomberg) Says Plant-Based Meat is a Flop
Deena Shanker (Bloomberg) joins Elysabeth Alfano on Plantbased Business Hour to discusses her article published on the plant-based food sector. Deena explains her prediction that "fake meat" is a fad based on the market indicators that inform her studies. In this episode, Elysabeth and Deena dive...
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Ethan Brown (Beyond Meat) Debuts Beyond Sausage
Ethan Brown, founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, joins Elysabeth Alfano on Awesome Vegans to talk about his company and debut his sausage in Elysabeth's kitchen, where guest meat eater taste tests both the Beyond burger and sausage and gives us his honest opinion. Ethan engages us in a thought-provok...
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The Women Who are Spearheading Cellular Meat
Have you heard about Cellular Meat? It's been making waves recently. Plantbased Business Hour presents this exciting topic and delves into the discovery of the latest advancements in cellular meat. Elysabeth Alfano interviews an incredible lineup of founders leading the way: Patricia Bubner from ...
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Moby Talks Creative Process
Grammy-nominated music legend Moby sits down with Elysabeth Alfano on her Awesome Vegans Podcast to discuss what his creative process looks like, what's fun about being a DJ, his focus on legislative advocacy for the greater good, advise on how to go vegan, and how being vegan is the "Swiss army ...
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Basketball Legend John Salley Gets Real
Basketball legend John Salley joins Elysabeth Alfano on her Awesome Vegans Podcast to talk about everything under the sun; how he became vegan, what wellness and spirituality mean to him, his journey towards a healthier lifestyle, his live-and-let-live philosophy, his time as an athlete with Mich...
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Eric Schnell (Founder of BeyondBrands) on What Makes a Vegan Business Successful
Co-Founder and CEO of BeyondBrands, Eric Schnell talks about 1) growing brands like Good Catch, Cool Beans and Steaz for success, 2) if plant-based will go the way of the "natural" foods category and become meaningless, 3) the power of a plant-based paycheck and 4) the importance of a strong comp...
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James Cromwell on His Plant-Based Journey
Actor James Cromwell joins The Plantbased Business Hour with Elysabeth Alfano to discuss his journey towards plant-based living, as well as how he came to be an actor in Hollywood. Cromwell speaks to the interconnectedness of living your truth, pursuing your passion, and how the two can be integr...
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Jen Bartashus on Plant-Based Food - Is it a Fad?
Plantbased Business Hour presents Jen Bartashus, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Bloomberg Research, who talks current climate of plant-based sector; why are US plant based food sales down, and what does this tell us about the animal agriculture as well as the protein alternatives market? Jen d...
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There's MSG, and then there's ESG...what's the difference?
There's MSG, and then there's ESG...what's the difference? Elysabeth Alfano, founder of Plant Powered Consulting, sits down with Jeremy Coller; founder, chair and CEO of FAIRR (Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return) to talk about his network of investors (worth many trillions of dollars collecti...
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Jim Mellon: Billionaire Investor/Author Predicts the Future!
Mellon is one of the founders of Juvenescence, a biotech company. In 2018, Juvenescence raised $50 million in a series A financing round. Mellon is the author of Moo’s Law: An Investor’s Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution. You can get this fascinating book here: https://amzn.to/3Owmd8K
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