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SPDS Meeting, March 17-18, 2016 – 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.