Title: Keynote Address: Doorway to a New Decade

Outlining the opportunities, challenges and innovations that this decade could provide the food & beverage industry

• How far we have come – retrospective touch-points of the 2000's , the technological, innovative and marketing highlights and their effect on today’s industry culture
• Where we are – the state of the food and beverage industry, the successes and the challenges that need to be faced
• Where we are heading – how prepared are we for success in the 2010’s? How can you optimize collaboration between people and process to achieve your organization’s vision? Which technologies will revolutionize our industry in the next ten years?

Mark T. Timbie President - North American Consumer Foods McCormick & Company Inc.

Mark Timbie is President – North American Consumer Foods. His responsibilities include overseeing the North American Consumer Food Group, including the U.S. Consumer and Industrial manufacturing plants, Mexico and Latin America as well as McCormick’s Global Export Department. He is also a member of McCormick’s Management Committee. Mr. Timbie joined McCormick in 1996 as Vice President – Sales & Marketing for the McCormick/Schilling Division. He served as Board Advisor to the Sales Group in the late 1990s. Mr. Timbie was named Vice President & General Manager – Perimeter Products and Consumer Marketing in 2000 and was promoted to President - McCormick Canada in 2001. In 2005, he was promoted to President – International Consumer Products Group. In this capacity he was responsible for overseeing McCormick’s consumer businesses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Mexico and Latin America as well as McCormick’s Global Export Department. Born in New York, he earned a BS degree from Rutgers and received his MBA degree from Columbia University. Mr. Timbie serves on the Board of Directors for Tasty Baking Company and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.