About Michael 

Michael comes from a food and packaging technology background with over 25 years’ experience across the meat supply chain in retail, operations and research. Prior to Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) he has worked for Woolworths Supermarkets, Hans Smallgoods, and JBS Australia in various commercial and technical roles. Michael holds Post-graduate and Bachelors degree in Applied Science, Masters in Business Administration and was formally an adjunct Senior Research Fellow at University of Melbourne in their School of Agriculture and Food.
Since 2020, Michael has been the Group Manager - Science & Innovation within MLA’s Research, Development & Adoption unit, leading a team which works across programs such as Productivity and Automation, Objective Measurements, AgTech, Market Access Science & Food Safety, Building Innovation Capability, and Food Tech solutions in New Products and Packaging.