PTFI Core Team
The PTFI leadership team brings a broad range of expertise and backgrounds from multiple academic disciplines along with the technology, philanthropy, and nonprofit sectors. We are all driven by solutions for people and the planet.
Leadership

Global Director, PTFI; Dean, Food EDU American Heart Association

Director, Global Food Portfolio
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation

Executive VP of Healthcare Business Solutions
American Heart Association
American Heart Association

Principal Scientist
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Director of Strategy Integration and Engagement
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Senior Vice President for the Food Initiative
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation

Chief of Science & Technology
Founder, Verso Biosciences
Founder, Verso Biosciences
Team Members

Thematic Leader, Digital Inclusion
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Senior Database Designer
American Heart Association
American Heart Association

Postdoctoral Fellow
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Senior Program Manager
American Heart Association
American Heart Association

Chief, Data Science, Co-Director, Institute for Precision Medicine
American Heart Association
American Heart Association

Clinical Insights Director
American Heart Assocation
American Heart Assocation

National Executive of Mission Advancement
American Heart Association
American Heart Association

Director, Crops for Nutrition and Health
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Postdoctoral Fellow
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Senior Curriculum & Product Manager

Senior Program Manager
R&D Technology

Lead, Database Workstream
Co-founder, Verso Bioscience
Co-founder, Verso Bioscience

Director, Programs & Partnerships
Verso Biosciences
Verso Biosciences

Designer
Co-Founder, Verso Biosciences
Co-Founder, Verso Biosciences

Professor, College of Agricultural Sciences
Colorado State University
Colorado State University

Research Scientist, Jessica Prenni Lab, College of Agricultural Sciences
Colorado State University
Colorado State University

Research Associate, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Colorado State University
Colorado State University
Team Members
A coalition of the American Heart Association and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT serves as the Secretariat for the PTFI, providing operational project management and facilitating a multi-stakeholder partnership. The Secretariat leads strategic engagements and communication strategies, positioning PTFI as a truly global, diverse, multi-sectoral, and culturally/geographically representative group of collaborators, partners, and stakeholders.
