Gene Ford

VP Research & Development and Head of Nutrition Innovation Center @Standard Process Inc

Palmyra, NC

Standard Process executive leadership team member. Gene is responsible for shaping the Standard Process research and development strategy and driving its execution. In this capacity he also heads the Nutrition Innovation Center in Kannapolis, North Carolina. Standard process is a family-owned, third generation company that has been a leader in making whole food-based supplements since 1929. Standard Process is committed to clinical science that advances health and changes lives though whole food-based nutrition. Using regenerative farming practices and advanced manufacturing technologies designed to protect the vital nutrients found in each ingredient. Standard Process’ Nutrition Innovation Center (NIC) is a first-of-kind research and innovation facility with a mission to improve human health and well-being through whole-person clinical care, organic farming, and wholistic nutritional therapies. Located on the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis for its high level of technology and the insights available through partnerships, the Center shares the campus mission of improving human health through nutrition. The Center is focused on developing advances in nutrition-based therapeutic care as well as conducting original clinical research demonstrating improved patient outcomes – all in support of integrative and wholistic healthcare practitioners.

Michigan State University

BS, Food Engineering and Food Science

The Wharton School

ExMSE, Management of Technology

The Wharton School

Advanced Managment Program AMP48

Michigan State University

MS, Food Engineering and Food Science