Radicle Science Continues to Expand Executive Bench with Industry Leaders to Accelerate Growth

High impact leaders Bill Bae and Jaclyn Bowen, with expertise in strategy, innovation, consumer advocacy, certification, and global markets join health tech pioneer to lead Commercial and Strategic initiatives.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Radicle Science, a health tech trailblazer bringing clinical evidence and precision to natural products and wellness, extends its executive leadership with the addition of Bill Bae as Chief Commercial Officer and Jaclyn (Jackie) Bowen, MPH, MS, as Senior Vice-President, Strategic Initiatives. These latest additions to the Radicle Science leadership team will continue to accelerate the company's growth trajectory.

Bae brings extensive international experience in commercial strategy and marketing across the nutrition, health and wellness, life sciences, and biotech industries. With career highlights spanning Fortune 100 firms and successful startups, he has delivered results through creating and executing enterprise commercial strategies, building high-performing teams, driving innovation, and leading business integration for world-class organizations including ADM, Thermo Fisher Scientific and BP. He is a proud alum of the U.S. Air Force Academy and Tulane's Freeman School of Business.

"I joined Radicle because I believe the future of wellness is going to be precise, personalized and proven—and Radicle is uniquely equipped to deliver on that at speed and scale," Bae said. "We'll tear down the old barriers to clinical research and innovation, giving our partners the evidence and precision they need to win—and making effective health solutions accessible to everyone."

Taking on the role of SVP, Strategic Initiatives, Bowen is a nationally recognized leader in food safety, certification, quality systems, and consumer advocacy. Her expertise spans standards development, compliance systems, and consumer product safety, most recently serving as the executive director of the Clean Label Project Foundation, spearheading national and international initiatives to reduce contaminants in foods, supplements and consumer products. She has also held leadership positions at the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre and at NSF International, where she led QAI Inc., launched the NSF Consumer Values Verified Program to anticipate emerging consumer label trends, and oversaw NSF Agriculture-North America. She has dedicated her career to advancing transparency and truth in labeling, leveraging science, data and consumer engagement to drive industry transformation and regulatory reform.

"I've always been drawn to movements that challenge the status quo, and joining Radicle Science is a natural continuation of that journey," Bowen said. "Radicle Science is shaping a new paradigm of health innovation—one where the efficacy of natural products isn't a novelty, but an expectation. I'm inspired by the mission to deliver rigorous, equitable, and radically accessible clinical evidence, and proud to serve as a catalyst to redefine natural products."

"World-class commercial leadership and uncompromising consumer advocacy are exactly what this moment demands," said Pelin Thorogood and Dr. Jeff Chen, Co-Founders of Radicle Science. "With Bill scaling win-win partnerships and Jackie elevating transparency and standards, Radicle Science is turning clinical evidence into a competitive advantage brands can deploy at speed and scale—accelerating our mission to make proven, precision wellness the default, not the exception."

Growth Milestones and Expansion Momentum

As Radicle Science celebrates its 5-year anniversary, the company continues an unprecedented trajectory of growth, doubling the number of clinical trials each year, expanding its innovation pipeline, and redefining the future of health product research.

• Named No. 1040 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies
• Launched Radicle Discovery Gen 2 Trials, driving faster product validation and go-to-market strategies
• Recently welcomed a new CMO to drive marketing transformation
• Announced new strategic advisors to strengthen market leadership
• Featured as one of only ten health tech startups at the Plug and Play Silicon Valley Summit
• Showcased thought leadership at Nutriform Business Days in France and other global conferences on precision health and AI

Thorogood and Chen have continued to extend Radicle Science's reach across multiple high profile conferences, discussing the future of precision health and the impact of AI. Radicle Science was selected to be one of six companies to present at the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN's) Innovation Exchange, where Chen and Thorogood will speak on the future of wellness innovation enabled by AI to meet consumer demands. During SupplySide Global, the leading global event for dietary supplement, food and beverage innovation, Chen will speak as part of the Inside The Bottle session on meeting consumer expectations; Thorogood will take part in a panel discussion on AI accelerating supplement innovation; and Radicle's SVP, Scientific Affairs, Dr. Susan Hewlings, PhD, RD, will speak on the state of sports and active nutrition.

About Radicle Science

Radicle Science is a health tech trailblazer on a mission to bring clinical evidence to natural products and wellness. Its pioneering proof-as-a-service platform combines AI, clinical data, and crowdsourcing to rigorously validate the effects of natural products across diverse populations—at unprecedented scale, speed and precision. It delivers improved health outcomes for consumers, innovative R&D insights for brands, and bridges the long-standing gap between consumer belief and scientific validation. Since its launch in 2021, Radicle Science has conducted placebo-controlled trials on wellness products in nearly 75,000 Americans—more than the total enrolled in all FDA drug approval trials during the same period. By including populations historically underrepresented in research, the company is advancing health equity and setting a new standard for evidence-based, personalized care. Radicle Science has received numerous accolades, including Fast Company's "World Changing Idea" and Nutritional Outlook's Best of Industry "Service Provider."
 www.radiclescience.com

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