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SPDS Meeting, March 17, 2017 – Chair and Presenter Bios
STAKEHOLDER PANEL CHAIRS
DARRYL SULLIVAN, COVANCE LABORATORIES
Chair, AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements
Darryl Sullivan is a Fellow of AOAC and has been an active member since 1980. He has served terms as
secretary, president-elect, president, past president, and director of the Board of Directors, and
previously served a three-year term as chair of the Official Methods Board, and is currently serving as
Chair of the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals. In 2012 Darryl lead a very
successful AOAC engagement with government and industry thought leaders in India and China on
behalf of SPIFAN. He is also active with the Stakeholder Panel for Strategic Food Analytical Methods and
the Stakeholder Panel for Agent Detection Assays. Sullivan also served a three-year term as a director on
the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors. He was a founding member and chair of the
Presidential Task Force on Dietary Supplements and a member of the Task Force on Bacillus anthracis, as
well as the AOAC Task Force on Nutrition Labeling and the AOAC Task Force on Sulfites. Prior to
chairing the OMB, he served as a member and chair of the Methods Committee on Commodity Foods
and Commodity Products. Sullivan was a founding member of the AOAC Technical Division on Reference
Materials and served three terms on the Division's Executive Board. A staunch supporter of the
Association, Sullivan was active in the e-CAM and Scholar I projects at AOAC, has exhibited at the annual
meetings for many years, has presented hundreds of papers and posters at AOAC meetings and
regularly publishes his research in the journal of the AOAC. He has also presented a significant number
of papers on behalf of AOAC at other scientific meetings in many different parts of the world.
BRIAN SCHANEBERG, STARBUCKS COFFEE CO.
Vice Chair, AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements
Brian Schaneberg, Ph.D., is the Global Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Director for Starbucks Coffee Company. Brian
participates in the execution of company strategies while ensuring compliance and regulatory guidelines are met
and followed by the company across all products: Starbucks, Teavana, Tazo, Evolution Fresh, La Boulange, and Ethos.
Brian has over 15 years of natural products experience in the area of dietary supplements and herbals. Brian was
also the Quality & Food Saftey and Scientific & Regulatory Affairs Director for Mars Botanical, a division of Mars, Inc.
focusing on cocoa flavanol science and products. Before Mars Botanical, he was the Director of Technical Services
at ChromaDex, Inc. in Irvine, California and was an Associate Research Scientist at the National Center for Natural
Products Research at the University of Mississippi under the guidance of Dr. Ikhlas Khan, in a position funded by the
US FDA for the development of methods to ensure the quality and safety of botanicals and dietary supplements.
Over the years, Brian has worked closely with trade groups, industry, academia and government leaders. He has
been a member of various review committees including NIH grants, analytical validation ERPs at AOAC and the
Registry of Carcinogens. Brian also had the pleasure of holding an adjunct faculty position at the University of
Colorado, Denver, advising a student that received his MS in Analytical Chemistry isolating phytochemicals and
developing analytical testing procedures for Horse Chestnut. Brian has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Virginia
Commonwealth University and a B.A. in Chemistry with a minor in Biology from Central College in Iowa. He has
authored or co-authored more than 50 publications and presentations.