About: Mark Satterfield, founder and president of Msat Consulting, is a food scientist with over 35 years of experience in the culinary industry. He specializes in beverage formulation, food safety, processing and nutrition. He has worked with numerous name brands, including Starbucks Coffee Company and Evolution Fresh. Mark developed the Evolution Fresh product line of cold-pressed juices and smoothies, and he helped the company transition from raw juice to thermally treated beverages to using high pressure processing in order to scale with the increasing demand for the product.

Mark is an expert in food preservation methods and developed several technologies to improve the shelf life and enhance the overall flavor of beverages over extended periods of time. He currently is listed on a patent for his biological preservation methods for beverages and other foods [US Patent 9,277,763]. Additionally, he developed a new way of freezing vegetable juice for large-scale storage and worked with a coconut processing plant to create a method for using every bit of the coconut in production to reduce waste and increase profits.

He is also a founding partner of Cold Valley Farms, a company that is revolutionizing the cold pressed juice industry.

In 2015 Mark founded Msat Consulting in order to focus on his passion for helping others create beverages with superior flavor and shelf life, including vegetable and fruit juices, protein drinks, non-dairy milks, meal replacement drinks, soups, yogurts and puddings. He has extensive knowledge about compliance certifications such as Safe Quality Food (SQF), USDA Organic, vegan and gluten-free. As part of Msat Consulting, Mark continues to develop new food products and investigate novel technologies for food safety and storage while maintaining confidentiality for his expanding base of domestic and international clientele.