Miriam is a visionary strategic leader and passionate R&D professional, believing in the power of partnerships, networks, and diversity of thought. She serves as Chief R&D Officer for Upfield, global leader in plant based foods.
Miriam has a proven track record of delivering market growth via innovation and renovation, pipeline building, organizational transformation, and driving portfolio efficiencies. Miriam regards R&D as the key function to enable business value by creating insight-driven propositions that are great tasting, healthy and plant-based, and are therefore good for people and planet.