Dr. Rob Beudeker is a Senior Investment Manager at DSM Venturing and Director for Nutrition and Health at the Top Institute for Food and Nutrition (TiFN). Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Innovation for Human Nutrition & Health at DSM Nutritional Products. Dr. Beudeker has an MSc in biology and PhD in microbiology from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He did his post-doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin in molecular biology and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Rotterdam and University of Rochester.