Impossible Foods
Sam Schafer possesses extensive experience in demand and supply planning, with a current position as Manager of Demand Planning at Impossible Foods since October 2019. Prior roles at Impossible Foods included Manager of Supply Planning, Master Scheduler, Lead Production Planner, and Production Planner. Before joining Impossible Foods, Sam Schafer worked at United Foods International from 2014 to 2019, serving as Operations Coordinator, Quality Assurance Technician Lead, and Quality Control Technician. Sam Schafer holds a Master of Business Administration from San Jose State University, earned in 2020, and a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Neuroscience from UC San Diego, completed in 2014.
Impossible Foods
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Based in California’s Silicon Valley, Impossible Foods makes delicious, nutritious meat and dairy products from plants — with a much smaller environmental footprint than meat from animals. The privately held food tech startup was founded in 2011 by Patrick O. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at Stanford University and a former Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Investors include Mirae Asset Global Investments, Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, UBS, Viking Global Investors, Temasek, Sailing Capital, and Open Philanthropy Project.