In his role as Technical Development Director, Felix focuses on coordinating the advancement of technical knowledge across CFS including supporting troubleshooting and mitigation of food safety challenges with customers. He seeks to identify challenges to food safety and food quality in order to identify root causes and propose solution sets.

During the course of his career, Felix specialized in managing and developing sanitation programs in various USDA and FDA plants along with International based facilities. Felix has gained additional sanitation and food safety expertise at Kraft Foods as a Corporate Sanitation Specialist, and as a Corporate Associate Principal of Product Protection, Sanitation, and Hygienic Design along with gaining valuable experience working in sanitation & quality director roles for Sugar Creek Packing Company. In these roles, he supported a variety of food-processing facilities, including meat, cheese, and biscuit plants. Felix has additional front line management experience gained in various quality, production, and sanitation roles within meat processing, frozen food, and within bakeries as well.

Felix has gained significant experience on Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement to increase sanitation effectiveness and efficiency. This approach has enabled plants to improve productivity and sustainability while developing, implementing, and supporting a large variety of sanitation and food safety programs.

Dr. Kari Spivey is a member of the Corporate Quality Assurance team for JBS USA Pork. She is responsible for the oversight of HACCP, Sanitation, Laboratory, and Food Safety programs within the JBS Pork facilities. This includes standardization of laboratory practices, regulatory support, and implementation of sanitation program monitoring. Kari has served as the Bacon Product Manager, Livestock Analyst, and most recently FSQA Manager during her tenure with the company. Kari earned a Bachelors and Masters of Science from West Texas A&M University in Canyon, TX as well as a Doctorate of Philosophy in Animal Science from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX. She currently resides in Agency, IA with her husband Reid and twin boys Haze and Zayd.

Kevin Guernsey is currently Intralox’s R&D Director for the Meat, Poultry and Seafood team. In this role, Kevin works directly with customers in the industry to fully understand their needs and then transforms that information into new developments within the conveying segment. In his 25 years with Intralox, Kevin has played several roles, all within product development at Intralox and holds several patents in his field.