Eat Well Investment Group reported that Dr. Bernhard van Lengerich has been appointed to the Company's Advisory Board to assist management with investment insight and general corporate strategy related to the Company's plant-based investment portfolio. According to a release, Dr. Bernhard van Lengerich completed his PhD in Food/Biotechnology at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and has served in senior leadership positions at some of the largest food and food tech companies in the world, including General Mills, RJR Nabisco, Unilever, Beyond Meat and the Buehler Group. Dr. van Lengerich worked for several notable organizations, such as Coperion, RJR Nabisco in the US and the Buehler Group in Switzerland.

In 1994, Bernhard joined General Mills Inc. (GMI) in Minneapolis, where he led the Game-Changer Innovation Program and created a novel GMI Technology Venturing initiative, enabling faster and higher impact innovations. As Chief Science Officer and VP Technology Strategy for General Mills, he was responsible for Science and Technology Development across the company until his retirement in 2015, after over 20 years of service. Bernhard joined Beyond Meat in 2016 in an advisory role as acting Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research and Development.

During his time at Beyond Meat, he led the development and launch of the first Beyond Burger and subsequently served on Beyond Meat's board of directors until 2021. In addition, Dr. van Lengerich serves as board member of the German Institute of Food Technology, Bountifield International and he is an advisor to S2G Ventures, Brightseed Bio, Benson Hill, UKKO, and several other organizations in the US and Europe. He is the inventor or co-inventor of over 150 patents, holds a Honorarium Professorship at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, teaching Extrusion Science and Technology, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists in Chicago.

Bernhard has been an invited participant in discussions at the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy on global protein security under the Obama administration.