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Speaker Bios
Hannah Crum
Kombucha Brewers International
Co-Chair, SPSFAM Kombucha Working Group
Co-founder and President of Kombucha Brewers International, the non-profit trade association for the
Kombucha industry, Hannah Crum is a longtime educator and Kombucha advocate. Taking KBI’s mission
to promote and protect the Kombucha industry worldwide to heart, she has been a featured speaker at
conferences, festivals and on television as the leading expert in Kombucha. Founder of the popular
educational site, Kombucha Kamp
( http://www.kombuchakamp.com/ ), is the most visited website in the
world for Kombucha information, recipes and advice. Along with her partner, KBI co-founder and
Chairman of the Board, Alex LaGory, they have directly mentored and consulted Kombucha brewers
from start-up to scale-ups since 2007 and have co-written the authoritative tome, The Big Book of
Kombucha, due out March 2016.
Rick Reba
Nestlé
Chair, SPSFAM Heavy Metals Expert Review Panel
Rick Reba is a Technical Expert in Food Chemistry for Juice
Authenticity, Proximate Analyses, Minerals and Trace Elements in Food. He is also a quality specialist
auditor ISO 17025 and ISO 9001 systems. Rick holds a BS Degree in Chemistry from the Ohio State
University.