Vanessa Ballard

Starthub mentor

Vanessa Ballard has experience with supporting start ups as a Judge and Mentor with the Mass Challenge Switzerland accelerator program and she also supports Scale ups as part of the EIT Food Rising Food Stars program. She is focussed on working with early stage businesses in the Agri Food space and her area of expertise is commercialization of technologies. She has 30+ years of experience working with corporates from across the food value chain involving the disciplines agriculture, food ingredients manufacturing, food manufacturing, and beverage manufacturing.

skills and field of expertise

  • Proposition development

  • Branding

  • Market choices

  • Customer choices

  • Business model development

  • Communication