Jeff Grogg Over 17 years at Kellogg’s Jeff has worked in a number of areas in Research and Development.  He has been involved with Kashi since the acquisition in 2000, and has been active in the growth and expansion of the Natural Health portfolio including Kashi, Stretch Island, and the recently acquired Bear Naked.  Jeff has also led the R&D team for Kellogg’s Health and Wellness business, launching Special K2O protein waters and bars, and the newly launched All-Bran fiber beverage sticks.  These experiences have given him direct insight into the environment needed in which functional food ideas can move from blue sky to market shelf, as well as the challenge of predicting which nutritional areas will be motivating for consumers in the future.

Ross Wallace Director, Strategic Partnerships – MaRS Discovery District (Toronto, ON) Ross Wallace coordinates MaRS relations and collaboration with all levels of government, regional and international partners as well as other key stakeholders.  Ross joined MaRS after completing his MBA at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.  Before attending Rotman, he worked as the executive editor of Corporate Knights, Canada’s first corporate social-responsibility magazine, helping create partnerships with organizations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Ross spent almost five years in Washington, D.C., working for the G7 Group, an economic and political consulting company, and for the Canadian Embassy assisting Canadian companies liaise with the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a senior member of Canada25, a national non-profit, non-partisan public policy organization, and has received a Masters in Public Administration from Queen’s University (Kingston, ON). In 2006, Ross received a Global Youth Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

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