Kantha Shelke

Kantha Shelke, PhD, CFS, IFT Fellow, is a principal at Corvus Blue LLC, a contract food science & nutrition research and regulatory affairs firm specializing in competitive intelligence research and rapid commercialization of new ingredients and technologies that are honestly healthful. She holds Master’s degrees in Organic Chemistry and in Food Science and Nutrition and a doctorate in Cereal Chemistry and Technology.

Kantha is a senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, a member of the Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Advisory Board, McGill University, Montreal (Canada), and a member of the board of trustees of Sonoran College of Health Sciences in Tempe, Arizona. She is a contributing editor at Prepared Foods and PLMA Live! video magazine and is a food science communicator at IFT.