Cultivated meat start-up snags Tyson R&D vet

Russell Thomas joins Chicago startup company as head of product development.

Clever Carnivore, a Chicago-based cultivated meat startup, has hired Russell Thomas — a 33-year veteran of Tyson Foods and also the cultivated meat industry — as vice president of product development, the company said in a news release.

Thomas, a food scientist with expertise in food safety, product development and operations management, will focus initially on accelerating the development of Clever…