Andrew Shakman

Summary

For the love of food, I've been on a journey to end avoidable food waste since 2004. I believe food connects us to one another and to our natural environment in powerful and profound ways and that it's a tragedy of epic scale that we routinely waste it. This is a tragedy for our planet and its climate, for those in need, for the animals whose lives we take only to discard them, for the workers who invest heart and soul to produce food we ignore, and for our collective conscience as a society. Wasting food is simply wrong. Fortunately, this is a solvable problem and I'm committed to seeing that solution in my lifetime. --- Global food waste solutions innovator, leader and creator of the world's first food waste measurement and analytics company and technology platform. Passionate food waste prevention advocate. Preventing food waste at the source is the only route to true reform and yet it's the most overlooked, under-targeted part of the food waste solutions space. Co-Founder and CEO of Leanpath, the industry leading food waste prevention platform working with client partners to fight waste around the world. Proponent of front-line foodservice teams, the hardest workers anywhere, many of whom are solving food waste and changing our world right now. Speaker, author, expert on global food waste issues. One of the “20 Most Influential” people in the foodservice industry (Foodservice Director Magazine); featured in BusinessWeek, NPR, PBS, Forbes, New Yorker, Fast Company and many food industry publications. Presentations to World Bank, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, US EPA, Culinary Institute of America, Greenbiz, Harvard/CIA Menus of Change, EU Fusions, National Restaurant Show, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Yale School of Forestry, PennVet, Stanford d.School, Waste Expo, Behavior in Energy and Climate Change, FMI/GMA, USDA and hundreds more.