Gregory Drew serves as Vice President, Innovation at Vitaquest International, and is responsible for technology creation, acquisition, and partnership strategies. He has 25 years of manufacturing development, commercialization and integration experience in the nutraceutical industry, monetizing value-added ingredients, flavors, sweeteners, dietary supplements, functional foods & beverages, oral care and customer-specific product and process solutions. With a technical and entrepreneurial background in botanical extraction, ingredient conversion technologies, and excipient-free natural products, he heads Vitaquest’s newest acquisition, an industry-leading particle engineering facility specializing in granulation, agglomeration, microencapsulation and specialty blending of consumable powders.