Published: February 2, 2026
Fortifi CEO Addresses Innovation’s Role in Optimizing Global Food Supply Chain
Global competitiveness prioritizes sustainable growth, client focus and people-centered culture.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, February 2, 2026 – In an interview conducted in Davos, Switzerland in the runup to the 2026 World Economic Forum meeting, Fortifi Food Processing Solutions (“Fortifi”) CEO Massimo Bizzi addressed ways to futureproof global food production. Bizzi drew on Fortifi’s combination of advanced technology, employee ownership and a people-centric culture to demonstrate how food producers can prioritize profitability as well as the values of empathic leadership.
Fortifi has built a global organization through disciplined acquisitions of strong individual businesses and a Lean-based operating system that unifies them for cohesive collaboration. To align with the evolving needs of the food processing industry, Fortifi relies on continued strategic investments in research and development. Its technologies help customers increase capacity, reduce food loss and waste, make better use of energy and resources to create better products, and enhance food and workplace safety. These capabilities take on even greater importance in the face of economic, climatic, and geopolitical disruption. Bizzi emphasized the roles of technology, automation and software in enabling food processors to operate with greater efficiency, safety and sustainability on a worldwide scale.
As an employee-owned company, Fortifi focuses equally on the strength of its technologies and the contributions of its people. The company reinforces the value of empathic leadership as a defining characteristic of high-performing organizations. Through its Enriching Communities initiative, Fortifi and its companies support their local communities through contributions of time and resources. At the same time that its employee-owners volunteer on a local scale to reduce food insecurity and mitigate its impacts, the Fortifi Cares Fund provides direct support to employees in times of personal hardship.
Produced by Acumen Media and hosted online by CBS Brand Studio, the candid interview covers many aspects of the challenges that face the food processing industry. Annual food production creates more than enough food to feed the world, but global food loss and waste – including losses during production and processing – limit the supply of safe and healthful foods. Many food industry jobs rely on physically demanding manual labor to complete repetitive tasks under difficult conditions. Labor shortages demand greater reliance on technology to manage operations through automation.
The global food chain provides an essential link between the world’s population and their vital need for proper nourishment. Fortifi helps reshape food systems into global competitiveness.
