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ByHeart CEO Ron Belldegrun on Baby Health: ICR Conference 2025
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ByHeart CEO Ron Belldegrun on Baby Health: ICR Conference 2025

Exec Edge hosted a fireside chat at the ICR Conference 2025 with Ron Belldegrun, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of ByHeart. The in-person interview was joined by Editor-in-Chief John Jannarone and they discussed the company’s creation, the importance of infant nutrition, the brand’s future expansion and more.

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About Ron Belldegrun

Ron Belldegrun is Co-Founder and CEO of ByHeart, a next-generation baby nutrition company that was built from the ground up to obsessively innovate and improve nutrition on behalf of babies. ByHeart products are crafted with farm-to-formula quality, leading nutrition science, and ingredient transparency to sit at the forefront of immune, cognitive, digestive and microbiome health.

ByHeart launched their first formula, a next generation easy-to-digest recipe with all-in-one benefits and certified clean ingredients in March 2022. At launch, ByHeart was the first new US infant formula manufacturer to be registered with the FDA in over 15 years including a clinical trial to prove benefits for babies and the only new US brand to own manufacturing and research/development facilities with direct oversight of ingredient sourcing. ByHeart has become a top 5 product across multiple channels including Mass (Target #2), Grocer (Publix #2), Naturals (Thrive #1) and Amazon (top 5), with strong recent launches of Walmart, Whole Foods, Wegmans, Meijer, and Amazon bringing ByHeart availability to >5,000 stores and 70% distribution.

Ron brings over a decade of investing experience in healthcare and infant formula to ByHeart’s innovation. He founded Consumer Health Ventures (CHV), a company that invests in businesses that improve lives. Prior to CHV, Ron spent eight years at Visium Asset Management, a healthcare focused investment fund where he was responsible for a $1B portfolio across Pharmaceutical and Consumer Health investments. He is an active board member of the Vagelos Lifescience and Management Program (LSM) at the University of Pennsylvania / Wharton, an Executive Board Member for the Clean Label Project Baby Coalition, and on the Board of Directors for Team PA. Ron and his wife, Karrie, started the LSM Educational Pipeline Program at the University of Pennsylvania, a program that matches underserved, local high school students in West Philadelphia with an interest in life science with an LSM mentor in order to bring up the next generation of leaders in life science from all backgrounds. He is also part of the Steering Committee of the International Milk Genomics Consortium. Ron graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Major in Biological Basis of Behavior and a Minor in Healthcare Management in Wharton, and currently lives in NYC with his wife Karrie, his daughter Zoa and his son Avner.

About ByHeart

Founded in 2016, ByHeart is a next-generation infant nutrition company that was built from the ground up to obsessively innovate and improve nutrition on behalf of babies. As one of the only fully integrated, FDA-registered infant formula brands in the U.S., ByHeart is driven by nutritional excellence and uncompromising quality standards. With manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Iowa, the company is committed to handpicking the finest certified-clean ingredients, controlling every step of R&D, and using a closest-to-breast-milk patented protein blend to provide parents with unmatched peace of mind and transparency for their babies. As a result, ByHeart is the only U.S.-made infant formula company to earn all three prestigious certifications from the Clean Label Project. For more information on ByHeart, visit https://byheart.com.

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