Connor’s passion for nutrition and health led him to complete a biology degree from St. Olaf College—and land deep in the CrossFit movement after graduation. Starting with co-founding a CrossFit gym in 2011, Connor found it immensely gratifying to help others improve their health through exercise and diet. Later, when he joined the medical sales team at Johnson & Johnson in 2013, Connor found himself in operating rooms, witnessing thousands of patients with chronic diseases that could have been prevented by making healthier lifestyle choices. That's when he knew he needed to shift his efforts to the preventive side of health.

After moving to San Francisco in 2014, Connor began this quest by forming a health startup—a physical therapy patient engagement platform. However, while living in a co-op community of entrepreneurs, his sights shifted to Ample when a friend asked him for a not-so-simple request: to make it easy for him to eat well, while working long startup hours. Connor worked tirelessly to make him a drinkable meal that aligned with the emerging nutrition research he voraciously followed. That's when Ample was born—a company committed to making it simple for people everywhere to have access to an easy, healthy meal.

With extensive experience in the food and consumer packaged goods industries, Julie has served in leadership, R&D, and board member capacities at major brands like General Mills, Target, Clif Bar, and more.

As the VP of R&D for Pillsbury (General Mills), she led a staff of 80 technical personnel responsible for all product, process, and packaging development. As a consultant, she worked with Land O'Lakes to evaluate their existing technical capabilities and intellectual properties, customer needs, and competition, leading to the development of 10 new product concepts. Next, she served as the Director of Food Product Development for Target, building their new Archer Farms and Market Pantry businesses from scratch.

In this role, she established key product development processes, recruited 25 new product developers and managers, built 4 state-of-the-art product development labs, and led the cross-functional team that launched Archer Farms' Simply Balanced line.

Prior to joining Ample, Julie also served as the Director of Craft, Quality, and Innovation at Clif Bar and as a technical advisory board member at Bush Brothers & Company. At Ample, she utilizes her immense industry experience to lead our product development and expansion efforts, overseeing the creation of new flavors and form factors to accelerate our company's growth.

Amauri is passionate about helping people solve real problems with high-quality

products, which is exactly what led him to join the Ample team. Working with companies like Symantec, Nokia, RingCentral, and more, Amauri has extensive experience building consumer brands, taking new products to market, and driving startup growth using an omni-channel approach. He's already hit the ground running at Ample, driven by a mission to educate consumers about ingredient quality and improve transparency in the food industry.

Ultimately, he hopes to help customers make more educated decisions about their health and diet. In his spare time, Amauri gives back by mentoring early-stage startups at Google Launchpad and volunteering at nonprofits. He's Brazilian, has two kids, loves downhill skiing, and has been drinking an Ample for breakfast every day since joining our team.

As a former consultant in industries ranging from financial services to education, Rona’s personal passions and professional interests ultimately coalesced in the food and beverage space. While living in Shanghai, she worked as a brand consultant at Equancy China, developing growth strategies for international food and beverage brands including Bacardi and Bel Cheeses. She then served as an operations and project manager for a major hospitality group—overseeing the operations of eight restaurants and bars, as well as the construction and opening of two new restaurants.

Upon moving back to the U.S., Rona landed in San Francisco with the intent of growing a mission-driven food startup. Joining the Ample team as employee #1, she applied her broad set of skills to establish our operational infrastructure and currently oversees our supply chain. She feels extremely proud of the company and our product, and is inspired by the many people living healthier lives as a direct result of our efforts.

Christine specializes in creative direction and content, from over 5 years doing videography, script writing, and community building in the video games industry for major titles like League of Legends. 

As a retired modern jazz dancer with a background in kinesiology and sports medicine, she's returned to her root interests applying her creative skills towards bringing higher quality nutrition to others through Ample.

Pablo has a degree in Microbiology and a Masters in Business and Public Administration. He has nearly a decade of high-level experience leading large teams and departments at major institutions and non-profits such as UCSF and Goodwill of San Francisco. Pablo joined Ample to help propel the food revolution forward and get more people eating healthy, easily. At Ample, in addition to ensuring the efficient movement of product 

across multiple sales channels, he works closely with  stakeholders from across the company to identify high priority needs, capture those needs as requirements, and deliver practical solutions via Business Intelligence projects such as models, reports, and dashboards.

He also enjoys getting outside and spending time in nature walking with his dog or hiking and snowshoeing with his friends.