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Looking Forward to a Fruitful Collaboration

Amid helping hands and generous insight, I am grateful for the chance to lead ProFood World’s editorial coverage of the processes and technologies that make the food industry run.

Aaron 082720 Web

As we sent our October issue to the printer, we had just come from a very successful—albeit exhausting—PACK EXPO Las Vegas. In print pages, October was my first appearance as Editor-in-Chief of ProFood World. But in terms of meeting the industry’s movers and shakers, PACK EXPO was certainly my public debut.

I’m thrilled with how forthcoming, helpful, and friendly everybody was who I met along the way.

Members of the OpX Leadership Network were cordial enough to let me sit in on their Executive Council Meeting, and to join them for conversation over dinner. The opportunity to listen to their most pressing concerns and pain points elucidated perspectives I might never have heard otherwise.

Also during the show, our editorial team at PMMI Media Group took the occasion to meet with several of our magazines’ editorial advisers. It’s worth noting that the advisers for ProFood World showed up in considerably higher numbers. I don’t know if that’s more a testament to this industry or to the kind of respect and trust my predecessor, Joyce Fassl, has developed over the years. Either way, several of them let me know that they were at my beck and call just as they have been for Joyce.


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