Food Automation & Manufacturing Symposium and Expo

Tom KellyShalima Sreenath
Head of Downstream Processing
Cellibre

Shalima Sreenath is a chemical engineer with over a decade of experience in the food and biotechnology industries. Currently head of downstream processing at Cellibre, she leads the isolation and purification of novel small molecules produced through fermentation, driving innovations from lab scale to commercialization. Shalima began her career as a process engineer at Kerry, supporting manufacturing plants globally through diverse process and project engineering roles, and had an impactful tenure at Beyond Meat, where she focused on new product introductions, capital expansions and scaling transformative alternative meat technologies. She holds a master's degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University and is a fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST).