Agri-Food & Nutrition
Where leadership decisions shape consumer safety and nutrition outcomes.
WHO WE SERVE
Leaders who scale through complexity.
Our Agri-Food & Nutrition practice supports businesses across the value chain, from emerging ingredient and ag-tech innovators to global food manufacturers and agribusinesses managing complex, regulated supply chains. Rising food safety and traceability standards, sustainability pressure, and a wave of private equity consolidation are reshaping what leadership needs to look like — we help our clients find leaders who can scale through that complexity.
WHO WE RECRUIT
From farm to finished product.
01
Agribusiness & Inputs
Where supply chain disruption starts at the source. We recruit across crop protection, animal nutrition, cooperatives, and fresh produce operations, placing the operational, commercial, and technical leaders who keep the food supply moving from farm to first mile.
02
Flavor, Ingredients & Applied Science
Where a single formulation defines a product’s success. We recruit across flavor houses, functional ingredient and food additive companies, and nutrition suppliers, placing the R&D, commercial, and technical leaders who turn applied science into products consumers trust.
03
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Not every consequential role sits in the C-suite. We take on director-level and business-critical mandates where the right hire genuinely moves the needle, including the sales and commercial roles our partners know firsthand.
04
AgTech, FoodTech & Sustainability
Where innovation must prove itself at scale. We recruit across AgriTech and FoodTech ventures, vertical farming and IoT platforms, and fermentation and biotech companies, placing the leaders who turn sustainability commitments into investable businesses.
PRACTICE LEADER
Agri-Food & Nutrition
FOUNDING PARTNER I AGRI-FOOD & NUTRITION
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
Ruben leads AGL’s Agri-Food, Nutrition & Packaging practice, helping clients solve complex talent challenges across these sectors.
With more than 15 years of experience in executive search, he specializes in building leadership teams across the full value chain, from inputs and ingredients through to application, packaging, and go-to-market execution.
He has worked closely with mid-market private equity firms and their portfolio companies across food, agribusiness, nutrition, and packaging.
Ruben works across North America, EMEA, and APAC, and is fluent in English, French, and Hebrew.
Every engagement starts with a conversation.
Whether you’re building out your leadership team or weighing your own next move, we’d welcome the conversation. Tell us what you’re solving for, and we’ll bring the network, the judgment, and the discretion to deliver.
