Arturo Elizondo

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Arturo Elizondo is a Hispanic technological entrepreneur, food inventor, and the co-founder and CEO of the EVERY Company, known for generating the world's first egg protein without the need of using animals. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Elizondo went to United High School, during which he interned for Henry Cuellar, representative for Texas, as a junior. [3] The following summer he interned at the Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C. [3] During his time in Harvard University, he earned a degree in Government and Comparative politics. [3] He interned in Washington at the Supreme Court under Sonia Sotomayor after his graduation in 2014. [3] He was then able to work with the Department of Homeland Security under the Obama Administration. [3]

Career and achievements

Elizondo is the co-founder and CEO of the EVERY Company, [4] formally known as Clara Foods, which is based in Silicon Valley, Northern California. [2]

Elizondo received recognition from several news publications for Clara Food's innovation in generating the world's first egg protein without the need of using animals. [2] [1] [5] In 2019, he was awarded Person of the Year by the National Hispanic Institute(NHI). [6] Elizondo was included in the "30 Under 30 Advancing Science" list for Forbes Magazine in 2020. [7] He has also been mentioned in multiple other articles such as "America's 50 Greatest Disruptors" by Newsweek, [4] "Ten innovators to Watch" by Smithsonian Magazine, [2] "10 Latinos Who Inspire the United States" by BBC World News, [8] and "40 Under 40" by the San Francisco Business Times. [5] [3]

On April 22, 2022, he was awarded “The Key to the City” one of the highest honors of his hometown, Laredo, Texas. [3] The ceremony was held at City Hall Council Chambers and was broadcast by the Laredo Morning Times where family members, and notable people of the Laredo city attended the event. [9]

Unintentionally but thanks to Elizondo's hard academical work, he became a candidate for the Harvard’s Board of Oversees, 2023. This role is responsible for developing and representing nominees for the Harvard Board of Oversees and for Elected Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association Board Committee (HAA). There were 8 fellow nominees and only 5 vacancies for the Harvard’s Board of Overseers, unfortunately, Elizondo was not selected to fulfill this role. [10]

The EVERY Company

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) completed their evaluation on Clara Food in 2021, [11] and once again in 2022 to update contact information and make clarifications on the identity, method, dietary exposure, allergenic risks, and other mandatory food procedures done by the FDA before releasing a new product to the general public. [12] In 2023, after Clara Foods started to emerge into its new identity The Every Company, the FDA re-evaluated the company and concluded that the production of egg-white protein is safe to eat, however, because this product is delivered from genetical egg modifications, it required to be labeled under the food allergen category. [13]

The EVERY Company has developed 4 ingredients; EVERY protein, EVERY Egg White, EVERY Egg, and EVERY Pepsin. [14] They were made using a fermentation technology that uses yeast to convert sugar to egg protein, similar to the making beer. [3] [4]

The EVERY egg was debuted at Chef Daniel Humm's 3-star Michelin Restaurant located in Eleven Madison Park. [14] [3]

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  7. ↑ "Arturo Elizondo | 30 under 30 - Science". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-03-22.
  8. ↑ "10 latinos menores de 30 años que inspiran a Estados Unidos y destacamos en BBC Mundo". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  9. ↑ "NHI Honoree Arturo Elizondo Gets Laredo's Key to the City". NHI Magazine. 2022-05-03. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
  10. ↑ "Candidates for the Board of Overseers and Harvard Alumni Association Announcement". Mar 30, 2024.
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  14. 1 2 Watson, Elaine (2024-02-02). "The EVERY Company to 'launch with multinationals' this year as it ramps up manufacturing capacity for animal free egg proteins". AgFunderNews. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
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