Jaclyn Bowen is a food safety and quality systems engineer and executive director of Clean Label Project, the nonprofit that tests consumer products for heavy metals, pesticide residues, and industrial contaminants. She previously held standards-development and executive roles at NSF International, a WHO Collaborating Centre — including general manager of Quality Assurance International, the largest domestic USDA organic certifier, and director of the division that brought the Non-GMO Project and Certified Gluten-Free programs to market. She holds an MPH from the University of Michigan and an MS in quality engineering.

Catherine Shanahan trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University, earned her MD at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and practiced family medicine in Hawaii for ten years. Beginning in 2012 she spent five seasons as nutrition consultant to the Los Angeles Lakers, where she designed the team's PRO Nutrition program with strength coach Tim DiFrancesco and head athletic trainer Gary Vitti. She is the author of Deep Nutrition (Flatiron, 2017), The Fatburn Fix (2020) and Dark Calories (2024).

Megan Westgate helped launch the Non-GMO Project in 2006, after working at the Food Conspiracy Co-op in Tucson, and became its executive director in 2007. The Butterfly seal reached shelves in 2010 and, as of January 2025, appears on more than 63,000 products from over 5,000 brands, representing $47 billion in annual sales. In 2024 she founded the Food Integrity Collective, and in 2025 the Project published the Non-UPF Verified standard, the first comprehensive framework for non-ultra-processed foods. From 2010 to 2017 she served on the board of the Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington.

Joe Dickson spent fourteen years at Whole Foods Market, ultimately as Director of Quality Standards, where he led the team that wrote and maintained the product standards behind the first national certified organic retailer. From 2010 to 2015 he served as the sole retail member of the USDA's National Organic Standards Board, appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and he was a founding board member of the Non-GMO Project. He is a trustee of The Organic Center.

Amy Klein is Chief Executive Officer of ERRA Certified. A founding executive at Revolution Foods, the healthy school-meals company, she went on to lead early-stage food ventures including SpoonfulOne (acquired by Nestlé) and Plantbaby, and taught at the Culinary Institute of America's Food Business School from 2016 to 2022. She is also volunteer faculty with FARMpreneurs, a nonprofit business school for small- and mid-sized farmers.

Ryland Engelhart co-founded Kiss the Ground in 2013 with Finian Makepeace, a Los Angeles nonprofit that promotes regeneration and healthy soil as a solution to the wellness, water and climate crises. He was a producer of the 2020 Netflix documentary Kiss the Ground. His father and stepmother opened Café Gratitude in San Francisco in 2004; Ryland ran the Los Angeles restaurants and is a co-owner of Café Gratitude and Gracias Madre. In April 2024 he moved from staff and board member to strategic consultant at Kiss the Ground, and he farms at Be Love Farm in Fillmore, California.

Nick Mares co-founded Kettle & Fire with his brother Justin in August 2015, after the two could not find a bone broth made from organic, 100 percent grass-fed bones that could ship without freezing. He was a 2016 Thiel Fellow and appeared on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for food and drink. He is now a co-founder of Light Labs, an Austin-based, ISO 17025-accredited laboratory and software platform that tests food, supplements and cookware for heavy metals, glyphosate, PFAS, bisphenols, microplastics and pesticides, with clients including Made In, Momentous and Seed Health.

Ford Smith is the founder of ERRA Certified. An investor and serial entrepreneur, he builds and funds companies focused on human well-being and the health of the planet through Ultranative, his venture studio.