The Inventors Workshop International and the Entrepreneur’s Workshop, Director of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Center in California, is a SCORE (US SBA) consultant, and was publisher of the Lightbulb Journal and INVENT! magazines. He is an inventor and serial entrepreneur, with 13 inventions/patents. He has been dubbed the “Minister of Ideas” by the media and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc., Entrepreneur, Business Week, TIME, USA Today, America Online Forum, NPR, and has appeared on OPRAH, CNN, Good Morning America, and CNBC. Alan has mentored and assisted thousands of green technology, sustainable ecology and energy companies, and inventors. He was a former Professor of Environment and Energy, participated in the First International United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, in Stockholm Sweden, was a staff member of Environmental Quality Magazine, and helped establish the famous Earth Day. He founded the Environmental Education Group Foundation in 1972 with many supporters, including Nobel prize winner Dennis Gabor.

It’s safe to say that ‘food’ is at the centre of Hope’s universe. When she’s not eating it, sniffing it out, gathering it, cooking with it, sharing it, she’s teaching about it. And now with modgarden’s tinyfarm she’s growing it. For the past 15 years Hope has been acting in lead roles in engagement, culture creation, marketing and business development for brands across the world.

She has been captured by the spirit and powerful practicality of modgarden and has taken on the role of Engagement Advisor and Jill of all trades for the growing tinyteam. This many-hat role suits Hope’s diverse experience and broad network. She lives and breathes the target tinyFarm user persona and is game to apply it to grow this brand.

Nick brings a wealth of knowledge, both from his post-doctoral research at Penn State and from his own research in Toronto, at Ryerson University. Nick’s expertise lies in investigating the complex relationships between food, exercise and health.

Nick’s notable achievements (to list just a few!) include: procuring over $10M in research funds (as a Principal Investigator or collaborating as a Co-Investigator), over 75 peer-reviewed publications and training of over 50 qualified personnel. In addition to providing valuable insight to the modgarden team, he serves as a scientific advisor for government agencies and the food industry.

The Nutrition Discovery Labs (ND Labs) at Ryerson University is home to a robust body of research focused on the physiological and environmental factors that contribute to appetite and energy imbalances with the goal of providing a foundation for advice on diet composition, physical activity, and environment in preventing and managing overeating in children. The ND Labs aims to provide evidence-based dietary, exercise and environment strategies that can fill an important gap that parents, school administrators, and policy makers can use to ensure children grow up happy and avoid a lifetime of poorer health.