01Organization
The business has outgrown its R&D, Food Safety and Quality capabilities.
Strategic advisory for food & CPG
Build the capabilities
your next stage of
growth demands.
AGA Advisory helps scaling companies—and the investors behind them—strengthen R&D, innovation, quality, leadership, and execution.
36 years at General MillsGlobal R&D, innovation & quality leadership
When companies bring me in
Different needs.
One experienced perspective.
02Innovation
A growth opportunity needs to be translated into a viable product or platform.
03Leadership
A senior leader needs a trusted advisor to strengthen judgment, confidence, or impact.
04Organization
Roles, priorities, capacity, or decision rights are limiting execution.
05Innovation
Innovation activity is high, but the pipeline is not producing enough meaningful growth.
06Investment
An investor needs to assess whether a company’s technical organization, innovation pipeline, and operating capabilities can support the growth thesis—or strengthen those capabilities after investment.
How I help
Focused support.
Built around the need.
Engagements range from a focused diagnostic to sustained advisory support through organization and execution changes.
Organization & Capability
Build the operating foundation growth requires.
Assess and identify the organization, capabilities, leadership, and operating model required to deliver business priorities.
- R&D, Food Safety & Quality capability assessment
- Organization, capacity, leadership, and talent needs
- Innovation and commercialization operating model
- Technical and organizational due diligence
- Post-investment priorities and capability roadmap
Innovation & Commercialization
Turn opportunities into executable platforms and products.
Help leaders make stronger innovation choices and build a practical path from opportunity through commercialization.
- Innovation and portfolio choices
- Product development and scale-up
- Commercialization readiness
- External technical and manufacturing partners
Executive Advisory & Mentoring
Strengthen leadership and decision-making.
Provide experienced, confidential counsel to executives navigating unfamiliar technical, organizational, or growth decisions.
- CEO, founder, and investor advisory
- Executive mentoring for R&D and technical leaders
- Technical fluency and innovation judgment
- Support on live business and organizational issues
- Ongoing strategic counsel
Representative work
Experience applied to real growth challenges.
Selected current and past engagements illustrate how I support organizations and leaders at different stages of growth. Client descriptions are intentionally anonymized.
High-growth branded food company
Advise and mentor the R&D and Quality leader as she builds the organization and capabilities needed to support continued growth.
FocusLeadership development, organizational design, and functional capability building.
Global food company
Serve as strategic advisor and mentor to a senior R&D executive, strengthening technical fluency, innovation judgment, and leadership of the function.
FocusExecutive counsel, practical decision frameworks, and targeted technical capability building.
Founder-led food company
Advise founders as they prepare the business for its next stage of growth and strengthen readiness for investment.
FocusGrowth and innovation strategy, organizational capabilities, operating readiness, and investor preparedness.
Food innovation consultancy
Assessed R&D organizational effectiveness and scalability for the CEO, identifying strengths, gaps, and barriers to execution.
FocusRecommendations spanning structure, talent, role clarity, operating systems, and leadership practices.
Who I work with
Leaders accountable for growth—and for the choices and capabilities behind it.
Founders & CEOs
Building the technical organization, innovation discipline, and execution capability required for the next stage of growth.
Private Equity & Investors
Pre-investment assessment and post-investment support to evaluate technical capabilities, identify execution risks, and build the organization required to deliver the value-creation plan.
R&D & Quality Leaders
Elevating the function, strengthening the organization, and becoming a more strategic partner to the business.
Operator experience. Advisor perspective.
Practical counsel from someone who has led through complexity.
Amy Abouelenein is a global food and CPG executive with more than three decades of experience leading innovation, R&D, quality, and technology.
Before founding AGA Advisory, Amy spent 36 years at General Mills, culminating as Vice President of Innovation, Technology & Quality for the International segment. She brings the pattern recognition of a seasoned operator—and a direct, collaborative approach grounded in what it takes to deliver.
Connect on LinkedIn ↗36years leading inside General Mills
14countries across a global organization
300+R&D, Food Safety & Quality professionals
$3B+international portfolio supported
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What does your next
stage of growth require?
Let’s clarify the real constraint—and the right way to address it.
amy@agaadvisor.com ↗