Heather Mendoza
Director Liquid Innovation R&D Americas, Global Tequila at Diageo
- Role
- Innovation R & d Director at Diageo
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Heather Mendoza
Passionate leader of innovation development teams – 15 years’ liquid research and development experience in innovation marketing building both new to world and world-class brands from conception to commercial reality. Influential liaison presenting novelty products to celebrity partners from hip-hop superstars to celebrity chefs. Personally launched 40+ sustainable innovation products globally throughout career utilizing exceptional relationship influence backed by key consumer insights to enable the adoption of creative technical direction.
Experience
Innovation R & d Director
Jun 2021 — Present · US
Education
University of New Haven
MS, Human Nutrition
2010 — 2012
NYU Stern School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2020 — 2023
Penn State University
BS, Food Science, International Agriculture
2003 — 2007
Skills
- Food Safety
- Customer Insight
- Food & Beverage
- Commercialization
- Consumer Products
- Food Industry
- Food Technology
- Product Innovation
- Food
- R
- Flavors
- Sensory Evaluation
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Ingredients
- Strategy
- Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (Fmcg)
- Food Processing
- Food Science
- Product Development
- Haccp
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