Derrick Teal has spent the past quarter of a century covering a wide range of industries for B2B publications. He's covered architecture, engineering, and construction as the editor of Environmental Design+Construction and Sustainable Facility magazines, autonomous and electric vehicles as the multimedia editor for Autonomous Vehicle Technology, and packaging as the content manager for Packaging Strategies and Flexible Packaging. His foray into the world of food and beverage processing started in 2022 with Food Engineering. Derrick received his bachelor's degree in English from Albion College.