Who we are
CreateFoods is focused on advancing the plant-based foods and ingredients industry in Canada. Our operation and capabilities CREATE critical infrastructure that will ENABLE a new industry and new opportunities through PARTNERSHIP with growers, food producers and ingredient manufacturers.
Our Story
The founders of CreateFoods saw a gap in the Alberta food supply chain that needed to be filled. World class agricultural crops were being shipped around the world for further manufacturing. Capacity for CONTRACT MANUFACTURING of plant-based food ingredients was severely lacking in North America which hindered the continents ability to advance the industry overall.
From this the idea for CreateFoods was born.
Guiding Statements
VISION
Advance the plant-based food space in North America with innovative food ingredients that will enable the growth of the industry in Canada.
MISSION
Develop domestic manufacturing capacity in the plant-based ingredients space. Provide innovative and highly customized products through contract manufacturing which in turn will CREATE innovation in both upstream (Agriculture industry) and downstream (Food and Ingredient manufacturers) here in Alberta and throughout the world.
STRATEGY
Build an ingredients processing plant in Edmonton Alberta using the latest technology, expertly and innovatively designed to accept a wide variety of input materials. Process these raw materials to a wide variety of highly customized food ingredients promoting full valorization of the input materials.
Our Team.
Our team includes industry leaders in the plant-based food ingredients industry and is a collection of over 110 years of experience
Darren Kostiw B.Sc
President and CEO
Darren has over 23 years of experience ranging from agricultural, forestry, chemical processing and protein isolate and concentrate manufacturing. Darren is an executive level operations and sales leader and has sat on the board of BioNeutra Global Corp, a specialty ingredients manufacturer.
Tom Chan B.Sc
VP Sales and Business Dev
Tom has over 30 years in supply chain management, operations and sales in the chemical processing industry. Tom held the key role of Regional Product Manager, W. Canada for Canada Colors Chemicals providing supply chain and product management for the Oil and Gas industry.
Randy Book
VP Operations
Randy has over 33 years of experience running various chemical operations and a variety of roles including operations manager, sales manager, and construction project manager. His experience spans the globe. Between 2011 and 2018, Randy lead the ERAP program on behalf of Canada Colors Corp.
David Fielder M.Sc
Chief Technology
David Fielder has had a career as a Natural Products Chemist for over 30 years developing and commercializing botanical extracts from “Concept to Commercialization”. He possesses a strong business acumen as well as having expertise in marketing, technical operations & manufacturing. In his career, he’s held executive positions in start-up biotechnology companies associated with the global cosmetic and personal care sectors.