Speakers

Baljit is a scientist, innovator and entrepreneur in Agri-Food Technology sector. He is on a mission to make foods healthier by bringing a paradigm shift in technology to sustainably produce nutritionally complete proteins.

Presently, Baljit is co-founder & Co-CEO of EQUII, a Food Tech start-up company backed by venture capital investment. EQUII’s high protein flours contain complete amino acid profile as seen in soy or animal protein. EQUII’s first commercial product is a high protein bread, delivering 10g of complete protein in each slice, with no compromise on its taste and texture.

In his 25+ years of industrial experience in Agri-Food Tech sector, he has led various roles in technology and innovation functions in food and beverage platforms. Prior to co-founding EQUII, Baljit was the SVP food innovation at Nature's Fynd, a fungi protein startup venture, where he led the strategic efforts to successfully commercialize dairy-free & meatless products. Prior to this, he was appointed as the VP of Food Research at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). In this role, he built and managed global teams that spearheaded discovery, development and commercialization of new processes and products derived from grains and fermentation technology. While at ADM, he also led the techno-economical diligence for company’s strategic venture programs in syn-bio and alternate protein space.

Baljit received his doctorate degree from the department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada (2002-2006). His PhD research work led to successful commercialization of a new-to-the-world ingredient technology, for which he also received a distinguished award from Alberta Ingenuity, Canada to fund the technology scale-up that he copatented (acquired, Naturex 2008).