Rob Beudeker

Rob Beudeker is currently responsible for the investment in start-up companies active in nutrition as Investment Director at DSM Venturing. From 2010 to 2016, he was active as VP Innovation at Human Nutrition and Health at DSM, steering these activities globally from Switzerland. Prior to this, Rob held various functions in R&D (project-, program- and resource management) and New Business Development at DSM, known as Gist-Brocades at the time he joined in 1984. Before this he worked as a post-doc at the University of Texas in Austin in molecular biology.

Rob has a MSc in biology and PhD in microbiology from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, as well as a MBA from the Universities of Rotterdam and Rochester (NY). In addition, he is a member of the supervisory board at JavaFoods, Phynova, Frontier Nutrition and S-Biomedic. He also works at TiFN (Wageningen, The Netherlands) as Program Director for Health and Nutrition.