The Team
Melina Shannon-DiPietro
Executive Director
Magnus Nilsson
MAD Academy Director
Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen
VILD MAD Director
Anna Küfner
General Manager
Ed Romein
MAD Academy Program Manager, Environment & Sustainability
Laura Hagel
VILD MAD Project Coordinator
Jack Mac Neill
Visual Communications Designer
Jack Muirhead
MAD Academy Manager
Roberta Garavano
MAD Academy Hospitality Manager
Advisory Group
Anne-Birgitte Agger
Direktør, Hotel- og Restaurantskolen
Wade Davis
VP of Inclusion for product, Netflix
Educator and Feminist
Former NFL player
Kenneth Toft-Hansen
Team Denmark, Bocuse d’Or
Owner, Svikløv Badehotel
Kim Rahbek
Partner and CEO, Falsters Kyst
Founder, Sticks’n’Sushi
Mads Holme
Managing Partner, ReD Associates
Simona Maschi
Founder, Copenhagen Institute for Interactive Design
The Board
MAD is governed by two boards of directors, one headquartered in Denmark, the other headquartered in the US.
Jakob Schou Midtgaard
Partner, Accura
Christine Lippert
Sleepy Cat Farm
Kelli Hayes
Vice President of Strategy, DSM
Peter Kreiner, Chair
Co-owner, noma
René Redzepi
Head Chef/Co-Owner, noma
Founder, MAD
William W. Helman IV, Chair
Partner, Greylock
David Barber
Co-Founder/Owner, Blue Hill
Founder, Almanac
Dwayne Sye
Founder, The Sye Fund
Co-Founder/Former Chief Information Officer, Cvent
Jessica Koslow
Chef/Owner, Sqirl
Roger Stein
Founder, Soho Development Co, LLC
Tatiana Levha
Co-Owner/Chef, Le Servan, Double Dragon
Helen Weschler
Director, Bay Area Food Program, Google
