Mick Riley is the co-founder and CEO of Forever Harvest, securing supply chains for fruit and fruit products through plant cell culture. Mick worked with scientists at the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research to sculpt this research into a viable commercial model and secure funding to take this innovation to market. Having worked in technology transfer at universities across New Zealand, Mick has strong connections to both the food innovation and venture capital spaces, and brought together individuals from across the country to ideate this venture and bring it to a reality.