Melanie Neumann is the principal attorney and founder of NAS. Ms. Neumann has invested over 25 years in providing the food and beverage industry with actionable and practical legal and regulatory insights through the lens of enterprise risk management. Topics include without limit: food laws and regulatory compliance, advertising and labeling compliance, intellectual property, corporate contracting, data management, pre-and post-acquisition due diligence, supplier and co-manufacturing contracting and risk assessment, recall and incident management, and other operational and brand reputation risk management solutions.
NAS interacts with various stakeholders on behalf of her clients –from production line operators to CEO’s and CFO’s, regulators to academics, the CDC, and the media–in response to outbreaks, recalls, inspection findings, enforcement actions, complaint management, and alleged illness claims to help resolve incidents by facilitating robust root cause analyses and helping companies identify appropriate corrective actions and other risk mitigations to protect public health and business reputation.
Ms. Neumann is also a professional coach who works with food safety professionals in various stages of their careers helping them to increase effectiveness and impact. She is a thought leader and sought after speaker and author on various topics she specializes in.
Melanie held corporate, food law and food safety positions with leading companies such as Hormel Foods, the Schwan Food Company, Price-Waterhouse Coopers, The Acheson Group, and companies she has launched and sold, and is now leading Neumann Advisory Services, LLC.
Melanie is a graduate of Mitchell-Hamline Law School in St. Paul, MN with a juris doctorate in law degree, and Michigan State University with a Masters of Science in Food Safety. She serves as an adjunct professor at her law school alma mater.
In her spare time, Melanie is a competitive triathlete competing in numerous IRONMAN® full-distance triathlons, including the IRONMAN® World Championships.