Pairwise adds Harry Overly to its Board as Independent Director

– USA, NC –  Pairwise, a purpose-driven food tech company today announced the addition of Harry Overly to its Board as an independent director.

“Harry’s experience leading organizations focused on delivering innovative healthy snacking and fruit products is key to our goal of bringing healthier snacking options to consumers. Harry’s strategic and operational leadership in the snacking industry will be key to our company’s success,” said ,” said CEO and Co-founder, Tom Adams.

About Harry Overly

Harry Overly currently serves as CEO of Flagstone Foods, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., one of North America’s largest manufacturers and distributors of private-label snacks. A portfolio company of Atlas Holdings, LLC., Flagstone is a leading supplier of innovative, premier snack mixes, mixed nuts and dried fruit products. Overly also serves as a Board Member of Flagstone Foods.

In addition to his role at Flagstone Foods, Harry Overly serves as the Board’s Executive Chairman at Sun-Maid Growers of California where he served as President and CEO for five years. He is best known throughout his 20-year career as a visionary, leading new product innovation for the category-leading food brands for which he has worked, with significant executive-level experience in marketing, sales, and strategy.

“I am thrilled to join the Pairwise board at this critical time in the run-up to the launch of the company’s first product, Conscious Greens,” said Harry Overly. “The work that Pairwise is doing under its consumer brand, Conscious Foods will change consumers’ relationship with healthy eating.” 

Prior to joining Sun-Maid, Harry Overly was the CEO of North America for Deoleo, the seller of the world’s largest olive oil brands, best known in the US for Bertolli Olive Oil. Before leading Deoleo’s business, Harry was the Chief Customer Officer of TreeHouse Foods, the largest private label-focused food manufacturer in the US with sales of approximately $7B. Before TreeHouse, Harry held several positions within marketing, sales, and product innovation within Kraft Foods, The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co, and BestSweet, Inc.

About Pairwise and Conscious Foods

Driven by the belief that healthy food should be consistently fresh, delicious, and convenient, Conscious Foods is a flagship brand under Pairwise, a mission-driven company that is building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Pairwise brings together leaders in agriculture, technology, and consumer foods to harness the transformative potential of new genomics technologies to create innovative new products. Pairwise is working to develop new varieties of crops and to partner with organizations that seek to drive innovation across the plant-based economy. Pairwise was founded by CEO Tom Adams and CBO Haven Baker, with scientific co-founders J. Keith Joung, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School; David Liu, Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; and Feng Zhang, McGovern Investigator and a professor at MIT.

In February 2021, Pairwise raised $90 million in a successful series B funding round, bringing total fundraising to $115 million when combined with the series A funding round. Additionally, Pairwise has a $100 million, five-year collaboration with Bayer Crop Science to advance gene editing tools in row crops. Pairwise is currently developing new types of leafy greens, berries, and cherries. In four years, the company has grown to over 150 employees with additional anticipated growth in 2023 as the company enters retail and food service.

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