Melanie Neumann
President, Food Industry Attorney & Consultant
Neumann Advisory Services, LLC.

Melanie Neumann is the principal attorney and founder of Neumann Advisory Services, LLC (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. Melanie 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.

Melanie has held corporate and food law / food safety related positions with Fortune 500 companies, global risk management firms and third-party testing laboratory companies. She is a sought-after advisor on data use, sharing and analytics and other food safety and corporate risk management solutions.