BioMADE Consortium Appoints Jill Zullo as EVP and COO

Aug. 21, 2024
The DoD-funded Manufacturing Innovation Institute hires a Cargill executive to lead development of biomanufacturing technologies.

BioMADE, a consortium partially funded by the Dept. of Defense to foster the development of biomanufacturing technologies, has hired Jill Zullo as executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Zullo joins BioMADE (for Bioindustrial Manufacturing And Design Ecosystem) from Cargill, where she spent nearly three decades developing new technologies, from foods to more industrial biotech innovations. Most recently, she served as the interim president & CEO of NatureWorks, a Cargill joint venture that led the biomanufacturing development of Ingeo polylactic acid (PLA), a biobased suite of plastics and fibers to replace fossil-based materials.

BioMADE is a Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. It is also a member of Manufacturing USA, a national network created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing.

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.

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