APAC SPSFAM Mid Year 2016

Speaker Bios

Hannah Crum Kombucha Brewers International Co-Chair, SPSFAM Kombucha Working Group

Co-founder and President of Kombucha Brewers International, the non-profit trade association for the Kombucha industry, Hannah Crum is a longtime educator and Kombucha advocate. Taking KBI’s mission to promote and protect the Kombucha industry worldwide to heart, she has been a featured speaker at conferences, festivals and on television as the leading expert in Kombucha. Founder of the popular educational site, Kombucha Kamp ( http://www.kombuchakamp.com/ ), is the most visited website in the world for Kombucha information, recipes and advice. Along with her partner, KBI co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Alex LaGory, they have directly mentored and consulted Kombucha brewers from start-up to scale-ups since 2007 and have co-written the authoritative tome, The Big Book of Kombucha, due out March 2016.

Rick Reba Nestlé Chair, SPSFAM Heavy Metals Expert Review Panel

Rick Reba is a Technical Expert in Food Chemistry for Juice Authenticity, Proximate Analyses, Minerals and Trace Elements in Food. He is also a quality specialist auditor ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 systems. Rick holds a BS Degree in Chemistry from the Ohio State University.