Enquirer Consulting Group
Jim Kaput | Vydiant | October 2026
As of 21 Oct 2026
Vydiant sells health intelligence for research and product development, helping food, nutrition, supplement, pharmaceutical and research teams see what the science says before they commit time and budget.
This map lays out the kinds of organizations those teams sit in, how many there are, and who usually signs off on work like yours at each.
It is a read of the market, built from your own site, and it is yours to use however helps.
Groups with a clean public industry code are counted and banded. Groups that cut across codes say so rather than show a number.
| Group | Organizations in the US | Under 20 staff | 20 to 99 | 100 to 499 | 500 or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food and beverage manufacturers | about 37,000 | about 28,000 | about 6,500 | about 1,700 | about 770 |
| Nutraceutical and dietary supplement makers | no clean public count | ||||
| Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturers | about 2,300 | about 1,400 | about 440 | about 290 | about 210 |
| Biotechnology research and development firms | about 4,900 | about 4,000 | about 600 | about 240 | about 130 |
| University research groups and health product platforms | no clean public count |
US firm counts by industry code, banded deliberately.
Your site describes a health intelligence engine that connects evidence across the peer-reviewed literature, ranks each relationship by strength of evidence and keeps every finding linked to its source.
It names four ways in for buyers. Food and Nutrition, Nutraceuticals and Supplements, Pharmaceutical and life sciences, and Research Partnerships. Your about page adds partner intelligence, bringing the same evidence infrastructure into health products, platforms and research workflows.
The questions your site leads with are product questions. Which ingredients have the strongest evidence for an outcome, what more an existing product could do, why it may work differently for different people, and which opportunity to pursue.
Vydiant home page and about page
Makers with an in-house research, nutrition or product development team, where an ingredient or health outcome question decides what gets built.
| Role | What they usually sign off |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Research and Development | The research budget and which product directions get development time |
| Head of Nutrition Science | The evidence behind ingredient choices and health positioning |
| Director of Product Development | New products, reformulations and line extensions |
| Head of Innovation | Early opportunity screening before a product reaches the pipeline |
| Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs | Whether the science behind a health benefit holds up |
Your site speaks to this group directly, with ingredients, combinations and targeted health outcomes. It spans several industry codes, so there is no clean public count.
| Role | What they usually sign off |
|---|---|
| Chief Science Officer | The scientific case for a formula and the research partners behind it |
| Vice President of Product Development | Which formulations move forward and when |
| Director of Formulation | Ingredient combinations and the mechanisms behind them |
| Director of Scientific Affairs | The evidence file behind each targeted health outcome |
Your site points this work at early-stage research and hypothesis development, across pathways, genetics, lifestyle factors and populations.
| Role | What they usually sign off |
|---|---|
| Head of Discovery Research | Which hypotheses earn lab time |
| Director of Translational Science | How findings carry from pathways to patient populations |
| Head of Computational Biology | Outside evidence and literature tools brought into research workflows |
| Vice President of Research | Research partnerships and the budget behind them |
Your site names research partnerships and partner intelligence as two further routes. Both cut across codes, so there is no clean public count.
| Role | What they usually sign off |
|---|---|
| Department Chair in Nutrition, Food Science or Medicine | Which research partnerships the department takes on |
| Director of Sponsored Research | Agreements between the university and outside partners |
| Chief Product Officer at a health platform | What evidence infrastructure goes into the product |
| Chief Medical Officer at a health platform | Whether the science behind recommendations is sound |
The people who usually sign at the groups above, one a company. Work emails and phone numbers checked on Oct 21, 2026.
| Name | Role | Company | Where | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Hicok | Vice President of Research and Development | Direct Biologics | San Diego, CA | khicok@directbiologics.com | +1 858 232 4405 |
| Luis Martinez | Vice President of Research and Development | Mom's Meals | A Purfoods Company | Jacksonville, FL | +1 904 651 2316 | |
| Esteban Toro | Vice President of Research and Development | Twist Bioscience | South San Francisco, CA | etoro@twistbioscience.com | +1 650 814 7538 |
| Amrish Chawla | Vice President of Research and Development | Sartori Company | Columbus, OH | achawla@sartoricheese.com | +1 208 358 7720 |
| Iype Chandy | Vice President Of Research and Development | CTI Foods | Coppell, TX | +1 860 595 9111 | |
| Matthew Bio | Chief Science Officer | Cambrex | Boston, MA | matt.bio@cambrex.com | +1 609 744 3050 |
| Haiching Ma | Chief Science Officer | Reaction Biology | Malvern, PA | haiching.ma@reactionbiology.com | +1 610 715 2968 |
| Jeremy Bartos | Chief Science Officer | INW: Innovations in Nutrition and Wellness | Orange County, CA | jbartos@inwmfg.com | +1 760 201 7733 |
| Mark J. Kiel | Chief Science Officer | Genomenon, Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | mark.kiel@genomenon.com | +1 734 223 2519 |
| Fouad Atouf | EVP, Chief Science Officer | US Pharmacopeia | Rockville, MD | fa@usp.org | +1 301 529 7554 |
Built from public federal registries and the company's own website, counts banded deliberately.
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Prepared by Dan Reeves, dan@enquirerconsulting.com.