Dr. Bill Aimutis is a Senior Advisor for Research and Innovation at the Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein at NC State. His industrial and academic research and career focused on animal- and plant-based proteins as ingredients used in a variety of food systems by entrepreneurial and multi-national food ingredient and packaged goods companies. Dr. Aimutis is a Certified Food Scientist, Fellow of the American Dairy Science Association and the IFT, and a Distinguished Agricultural Alumnus from Purdue University and Virginia Tech. Dr. Aimutis has served on several industry and university advisory committees and continues to be active on several corporate scientific advisory and managing boards. He is listed as an inventor on over 75 US and international patents.