Robert Ugianskis, Chief Executive Officer. Rob is a mechanical engineer and a metallurgist by training, University of Connecticut, and he spent a decade running plants for Owens Corning before he ever saw a capsule. Process engineer, operations leader, maintenance leader, then plant manager. He has published on Six Sigma. He lists Kaizen as a core skill, which in practice means he walks the floor looking for waste and does not accept “that is how we have always done it” as an answer. He came to supplements in 2015 from heavy industrial manufacturing, where a process failure is measured in tons and nobody gets to fix it with better packaging. He owns manufacturing, supply chain, and optimization here, which means the raw material decisions and the process decisions belong to the same person, and that person is an engineer.
Keith Gregory, Chief Financial and Revenue Officer. Keith carries the commercial side and the back office both. Sales, marketing, customer relationships, finance, accounting, IT, HR, customer service, and industry relations. That is an unusual pairing on purpose: the person deciding what we spend on testing is the same person answerable for what we sell. When a lot fails, the write-off lands on his desk, and the quarantine decision still is not his to make. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for international business with an economics minor, then an IMBA at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business. He came out of manufacturing finance, not supplement marketing. Product costing and yield analysis at Pilgrim’s Pride, operations finance across sixteen plants at Dairy Farmers of America, then here since 2015. He also sits on the board of directors of the Natural Products Association, the industry’s oldest trade group, founded 1936, which means he spends part of his year arguing about the rules the rest of this page has to satisfy.
John Mills, Director of Quality and Compliance. Master’s in chemistry. Ten years in biochemical research before this, implementing Good Laboratory Practice in an analytical lab. Quality Manager here since 1994, and he designed the lab facilities we run today. The specifications your product is held to are the ones he wrote. He is also, and this is the point, a co-owner.
An engineer, a manufacturing finance guy, and a chemist. Nobody in this building came up through brand management.
