Driving
success in
food innovation
Foodiract is a boutique consultancy company, offering a range of services and solutions for Foods & Beverages companies to optimise their R&D strategy, organisation, and project and portfolio management to get the most out of their R&D investment.
Working Experience & Clients
Services offered
by Foodiract
With Foodiract, Henri Molhuizen aims to make his extensive knowledge and experience available as an independent R&D professional, delivering solutions to both new and established players in the Foods and Beverages industry to achieve their innovation objectives.
Henri works across all geographies and his services specifically focus on:
- (Interim) executive R&D management
- R&D strategy development
- Strategy implementation
- Innovation project, program, and portfolio management
- R&D due diligence
- Support with R&D team development and capability building
- Workshops and training related to forementioned areas, e.g. patent awareness training for Foods R&D professionals.
Dr. Henri Molhuizen
Henri is a Senior R&D executive with more than 25 years of international experience in Foods & Beverages, combined with a solid scientific background.
He has worked at Universities (Nijmegen, Amsterdam), the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Unilever, Dawn Foods, and most recently Nuritas – a successful Irish Biotech startup.
Henri has proven to deliver at executive level with a track record of successful Foods & Beverages innovations and New Product Developments (NPDs) in various Categories across multiple geographies.
He has successfully delivered in each part of the innovation process (early discovery, proof of principle, prototype and product development, production scale-up and product launch).
He brings experience translating business strategy into action and initiating and optimising innovation processes.
Optimisation of organisations and processes
As a senior manager Henri has led various organisational restructuring programs and optimised various innovation management processes. All aimed at driving increased efficiency and optimised R&D organisations. Seeking for synergies, driving focus, and reducing overlaps have always been key in his approach, while keeping the human factor top of mind.
Strong track record of innovations in Foods and Beverages
R&D Leadership
For example, he led the Unilever R&D programs behind the very successful launch of Brooke Bond Red Label Natural Care in India, and the development of the Out-of-Home range of the new brand Pure Leaf. In Dawn Foods Henri was responsible for the development of sugar/fat/salt/calorie-reduced pastry products, gluten-free solutions, an award-winning vegan product range, and a highly innovative non-sticky donut glaze.
Legal
FooDirAct is established by Molhuizen Holding B.V. and is registered with the Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, KVK under number 89845099.
IBAN: NL92 RABO 0341 9737 42
BIC/SWIFT: RABONL2U
VAT/BTW: NL865130632B01