Jairus David, Ph.D., is Senior Principal Research Scientist at ConAgra Foods headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. David's responsibilities include science leadership and development of intervention technologies for food protection and process & quality optimization. David is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), and is the recipient of IFT's prestigious Industrial Scientist Award for developing and influencing the public health food safety policy on the use of honey in cereals and bakery products for the prevention of infant botulism in infants under 12 months of age. David earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology with Thermal Processing emphasis from the University of California at Davis.

Ralph H. Graves held the position of Senior Vice President for Real Fresh, Inc., as a company involved in the processing and sale of aseptically packaged foods. His responsibilities included the research and development of processing techniques, quality control, engineering, and maintenance and warehousing of aseptically packaged dairy products. Although now officially retired, Graves continues his work in this field as a consultant.

Thomas E. Szemplenski is the owner of Aseptic Resources, Inc., a consulting company dedicated to assisting food processors and equipment manufacturers with aseptic processing techniques. He has more than four decades of food processing and packaging experience--the vast majority of time dedicated to aseptic processing and packaging techniques, commercial application, and marketplace dynamics.