Advisory Board

Michael Corrigan

Advisory Board Member

Corrigan is a trained herbalist, experienced educator and successful consultant to the natural products industry. He draws on three decades of experience in traditional western herbalism, phytotherapy and nutritional healing. Whether working with the health and natural foods trade, everyday consumers or high-profile health professionals, Corrigan effectively educates people on the combination of traditional herbal knowledge with the ever-expanding body of scientific evidence supporting the effective use and safety of natural therapies.

Lynea Schultz-Ela

Advisory Board member

As a consultant since 2003, Lynea Schultz-Ela provides direction and support to retailers and manufacturers on natural product initiatives. With retailers Lynea has developed private label products; conducted category management analysis and executed plans with strong results; served as a “think tank” participant in large retail chain long term planning; store design for national and international retailers; and advised on business culture development for all stakeholder groups. With manufacturers Lynea has built launch and business development strategies; developed the plans and implementation of appropriate tactics to create many successful sales organizations; provided counsel on trade spending, label, consumer messaging, as well as educated on systems and procedures for early and mid-stage CPG growth companies. Lynea’s broad range of support has been the key component in her client’s success.

Prior to A Natural Resource Consulting, Lynea was with Whole Foods Market for 15 years focused on purchasing at the corporate level, and where she was honored with the coveted National All-Star Award for contributions to the company. She currently serves on several boards and contributes to the natural product industry and to growing organics at large by writing articles, speaking at trade conferences, and educating in small and large group settings.

Jeff Hilton

Advisory Board member

Jeff Hilton is partner and co-founder of Integrated Marketing Group (IMG), a marketing and branding agency servicing a national and international clientele. Jeff has been recognized by Advertising Age as one of America’s Top 100 Marketers and has more than 28 years of broad-based business experience, including 18 years spent within the natural health products industry with leading companies such as Nature’s Way and Nutraceutical Corporation. Jeff has also worked at several major national agencies, where he guided the marketing efforts of numerous recognized consumer brands including Continental Airlines, Mrs. Field’s Cookies and Major League Baseball. He was recently awarded the Personal Service Award from Nutrition Business Journal (NBJ) in recognition for his ongoing outreach efforts including editorial contributions, pro-bono work, webinars and speaking engagements within the healthy lifestyles industry.

Dr. Mary Ann Block

Advisory Board Member

Dr. Mary Ann Block is an international expert on the treatment of attention and behavior problems without drugs and a healthcare leader for her natural and practical approach to children’s health. Dr. Block is the author of the top-selling books, No More ADHD, No More Ritalin, No More Antibiotics: Treating Ear and Respiratory Infections The Natural Way, The ABC's of Raising Great Kids, Today I Will Not Die, the story of how she helped her mother survive terminal lung cancer and her newest book, Just Because You’re Depressed Doesn’t Mean You Have Depression.

Dr. Block is founder and Medical Director of The Block Center in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, an international clinic for adults and children with chronic health problems.

Dr. Block Chairs The Health and Empowerment Committee for The National Foundation for Women Legislators where she help draft a resolution supporting a parents' right to choose to vaccinate their children or not.

Dr. Block has served as a peer reviewer for the Agency for Health-Care Policy and Research and the American Academy of Pediatrics for the diagnosis and treatment of ear problems. She holds a clinical faculty appointment and served on the faculty as assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center/Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas. She has served on the boards of both the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the Pan American Allergy Society. Dr. Block was the recipient of the Wayne O. Stockseth Award for Osteopathic Excellence and has served on the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Osteopathy.

Dr. Block has been featured on the CBS news show, 48 Hours, MSNBC's Scarborough Country, and The Montel Williams Show, and interviewed on CNN News, NBC`s Home Page, Fox Network News, The Today Show in New York, The Joni show on Daystar, Your Health with Dr. Becker and is a medical contributor on Trinity Broadcast Network  as well as such magazines as Newsweek, Better Homes and Gardens and radio and newspapers across the country.

For More Information on Dr. Block visit www.blockcenter.com.

Brent Roth

Advisory Board Member

Roth is a chemical engineer with 20+ years experience in the dietary supplement industry. Over the years, he has been on the following nutritional industry organizations: NNFA (GMP Chairman); AHPA Botanical Standards Committee; USP Botanical Standards Advisory Panel; and CRN GMP Committee, the team that was responsible for the Industry Proposal to the FDA in 1997. Roth has been involved in new and novel ingredient development for most of his career; with his most notable creation being a patent on a proprietary cranberry product (Patent numbers US 5,525,341 and US 5,474,774). He has a very sound understanding of herbs, vitamins, minerals, and phyto-chemicals, and their suitability for human consumption and has developed thousands of formulas over the past 20 years—many of which are big sellers on the retail shelf.