Sam Davidson – BOD, OFPA

Sam Davidson has over thirty years of food safety experience in food manufacturing and foodservice sectors with extensive experience in HACCP, SFCR, FSMA, PCQI and GFSI requirements. Sam has held positions in production, auditing, corporate, training and consulting, all focusing on food safety. He is currently Director, Food Safety with Compass Minerals, a leading global provider of essential minerals, specializing in salt for food, industry, deicing and specialty plant nutrition, where he is responsible for the food grade facilities in North America.

Saba leads Global Operations at Nurau, a platform that captures frontline food safety and operational signals in real time across multi-site food organizations.

Trained as a nutritionist, she started her career in food production environments, working alongside production teams, QA leaders, and supervisors. There, she saw a recurring pattern: most food safety incidents don’t start in audits, they start as small signals during the shift, deviations, near-misses, and process breakdowns that disappear between handovers until they escalate.

That frontline experience shaped how she thinks about ops and food safety today. Saba works with food manufacturers, distribution operations, and multi-site organizations to close the gap between what happens on the floor and what makes it into the system, and to help ops and quality teams see how closely their goals are already connected.