Steve Nice
Co-Founder and CEO
Steve Nice is an entrepreneur who has focused his career on building businesses that promote products and systems that help people. As Co-Founder and former CEO of BedinaBox.com, he helped to create the cleanest (first OekoTex-Certified mattress in U.S. history), most durable, and comfortable memory foam mattress in America. He is responsible for the removal of dibutyl tin and phthalates from polyurethane foam manufacturing. He is the co-founder and CEO of Shield Nutraceuticals, a company dedicated to personal and environmental wellness with a lean toward Regenerative Agriculture. The three companies he has built in the past two decades are all still in business – built to last.
Sheridan Nice
Co-Founder
Sheridan Nice is the Co-Founder of Shield Nutraceuticals, Inc. She is a graduate of La Varenne, Ecole de Cuisine, Paris. Sheridan currently teaches French Cuisine, “Slow Food” cuisine and Farm-to-Table cuisine in the European tradition, through online Zoom classes and in person. In-person classes are available through East Tennessee State University and Serenity Knoll Farm in Jonesborough, Tennessee. She has 38 Years experience as a professional chef.
Abhinav Chauhan
Partner
Abhinav Chauhan is the Founder and CEO of Promecens Entosystems Private Limited, located in Maharashtra, India. As a cross-disciplinary scientist-entrepreneur operating at the convergence of immunotherapy, computational biology, quantum physics, and advanced engineered materials, he has more than a decade of experience across institutions and companies including CSIR-IGIB, MIT, Monash University, the University of Cambridge, Trinity College Dublin, Pfizer, Novartis, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Peter Doherty Institute. His work uniquely integrates antibody and phage engineering, glyco-engineering, AI-driven biological design, and cancer and infection immunology with quantum-informed materials science, propulsion-relevant thermodynamics, and rocket and thruster architecture enabled by functional materials. At Promecens, he leads the scientific vision, global IP and patent strategy, and commercialization of ultra-high-purity melanin, advanced chitosan derivatives, and antimicrobial peptides.
Steve Nice
Co-Founder and CEO
Steve Nice is an entrepreneur who has focused his career on building businesses that promote products and systems that help people. As Co-Founder and former CEO of BedinaBox.com, he helped to create the cleanest (first OekoTex-Certified mattress in U.S. history), most durable, and comfortable memory foam mattress in America. He is responsible for the removal of dibutyl tin and phthalates from polyurethane foam manufacturing. He is the co-founder and CEO of Shield Nutraceuticals, a company dedicated to personal and environmental wellness with a lean toward Regenerative Agriculture. The three companies he has built in the past two decades are all still in business – built to last.
Sheridan Nice
Co-Founder
Sheridan Nice is the Co-Founder of Shield Nutraceuticals, Inc. She is a graduate of La Varenne, Ecole de Cuisine, Paris. Sheridan currently teaches French Cuisine, “Slow Food” cuisine and Farm-to-Table cuisine in the European tradition, through online Zoom classes and in person. In-person classes are available through East Tennessee State University and Serenity Knoll Farm in Jonesborough, Tennessee. She has 38 Years experience as a professional chef.
Charles Collins
Vice President
Dr. Charles Collins is a dissolution chemist and professor of pharmaceutical sciences. He has over forty years’ experience as a pharmacist and is an expert at formulating products for optimal performance.
Jorge Estrada
VP- International Sales
Jorge is a senior entrepreneur with 34 years of experience in the agriculture industry. He has held management positions in the high-tech agriculture sector. He is the founder and CEO of LCI Inc. in Seattle, WA, which he founded in 2000. The company serves U.S. and international businesses. He is the co-founder of Earth Conscious Solutions, LLC, established in 2018. At Chitosan Global, he leads the International sales team.
Audrey Depelteau
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Audrey Depelteau is a chiropractor with over 26 years of clinical experience and is the director of a new business incubation lab. She has been utilizing and refining enzyme therapy to bring relief to her patients for many years.
Herbert Herman Alvarado
Agribusiness Advisor & Entrepreneurial Leader
Professional with over 30 years of experience in the development, management, and leadership of agribusiness companies, working with multinational corporations as well as small entrepreneurial ventures. He has held senior management positions in co ee, cocoa, fresh and frozen vegetable trading companies across four countries: the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala.
He stands out for his ability to identify market opportunities and develop sustainable business models. His career reflects a strong combination of strategic vision and practical expertise across the agribusiness value chain.
He holds a degree in Agronomy from the Pan-American School of Agriculture, a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University, and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Andrew Clark
Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. W. Andrew Clark is a nutritional biochemist and a registered dietitian nutritionist. He is an Associate Dean of Research and head of a nutritional laboratory. He uses his years of nutrition science expertise to create solutions to common nutrition problems.
Alvaro Corso
VP - Latin American Joint Ventures
Alvaro Corzo is an Agricultural Engineer with over 35 years of experience in plant nutrition, biostimulation, soil health and regenerative agriculture. Providing technical advice to agricultural producers in the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Robert Santos-Prowse
Scientific Advisory Board
Robert is a registered dietitian nutritionist who led the research and provided guidance for building this website. He graduated from East Tennessee State University with a master’s degree in clinical nutrition.
Julio Vásconez
VP - International Markets
Agricultural Engineer (with MBA) and +36-year international veteran in sustainable agribusiness. Specialist in cocoa and cut-flower production, value chain development, and responsible sourcing programs.
Expert in building and managing traceability systems, organic certifications, and compliance with key regulations such as the EUDR—combining operational excellence, financial discipline, and field-level agronomy with a deep dedication to environmental stewardship, biodiversity protection, and community empowerment. Broad experience partnering with global companies, development organizations, and smallholder farmers in Ecuador and Latin America to foster inclusive, sustainable, and high-impact agricultural value chains
Mitchell Drake
Entrepreneur & Sales Expert
Mitchell Drake is an entrepreneur with a focus on sales and growing businesses from personal brands to commercial retailers. He was a Boy Scout growing up, and has had an immense passion for music all his life. Starting as a Realtor, he transitioned into insurance sales, before helping start a Business Technology Implementation company, Legacy Consulting. At Chitosan Global, he is part of the sales team in North America.
