About Us

 Minqi Wang is the founder and CEO of Ideation Foods. She founded her first startup, Vegeply, in 2019, producing snacks and beverages that contain 100% of the daily value of natural-source vitamin B12 for plant-based dieters. Minqi is a Eugene M. Isenberg Scholar Awardee and a past chair of the nutrition division of IFT. Minqi serves as a long-term SciTech consultant for GFIC, an organization dedicated to promoting alternative protein innovation. Minqi specializes in alternative proteins, food biopolymers, and bioactive components with a special emphasis on biotransformation by the gut microbiome. She obtained her bachelor's degree from China Agricultural University and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

David Julian McClements is a co-founder and research advisor at Ideation Foods. Dr. McClements is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts, an Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University, and a visiting Professor at the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He specializes in the areas of food biopolymers and colloids, with a special emphasis on using structural design principles to improve the quality, safety, shelf-life and nutritional attributes of foods McClements received his Ph.D. in Food Science (1989) at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) in ultrasonic spectrometry.