IN Brief:
- TraceGains has appointed Zoli Gombosi as senior vice president of engineering to lead global engineering and AI-led product delivery.
- The move follows Veralto’s GlobalVision acquisition and deeper TraceGains integration with Esko packaging and artwork workflows.
- TraceGains is extending its source-to-shelf model across compliance, formulation, labelling, packaging, and ingredient-level carbon intelligence.
TraceGains has appointed Zoli Gombosi as senior vice president of engineering, strengthening its technical leadership as the company expands AI-driven development across compliance, quality, formulation, packaging, and sustainability workflows for food and beverage brands.
Gombosi brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise data management and AI initiatives, including leadership roles at Oracle, Informatica, and Reltio. At TraceGains, he will lead global engineering with a focus on AI-led product development, modernised delivery practices, and more intelligent workflows across the company’s platform.
The appointment comes as TraceGains deepens its role inside the Veralto ecosystem. Veralto acquired TraceGains in 2024, placing the company alongside businesses including Esko, which specialises in packaging, artwork, and go-to-market systems. The integration increasingly centres on a source-to-shelf model that links supplier data, ingredient specifications, product formulation, nutritional calculation, labelling, packaging specifications, artwork approvals, compliance, and ESG information.
Veralto’s acquisition of GlobalVision adds another layer to that system. GlobalVision specialises in automated proofreading and quality control for regulated industries, with technology designed to detect errors across packaging, artwork, and labelling workflows. In food and beverage, small deviations in artwork, claims, allergens, languages, or regulatory text can create recall exposure, retailer rejection, or costly rework.
TraceGains has also been expanding its integration with Esko through Packaging Specification Management, connecting ingredient specifications, packaging data, formulations, finished goods, and artwork approvals in a unified environment. The same digital thread sits behind TraceGains links packaging specs with artwork approvals, where packaging and product data are brought closer together to reduce mislabelling risk and speed product development.
Food manufacturers are carrying a heavier data burden across every product change. Reformulation projects, allergen control, nutrition labelling, supplier approval, sustainability disclosure, packaging regulation, and market-specific compliance all depend on accurate information moving between teams. When ingredient data, artwork, packaging specifications, and regulatory approvals sit in disconnected systems, delays and errors become harder to contain.
TraceGains’ Carbon Insights toolset extends that model into sustainability by bringing ingredient-level carbon intelligence into sourcing, formulation, and compliance workflows. Carbon data can then sit closer to day-to-day product decisions rather than remaining a separate reporting exercise. As customer requirements and disclosure regimes tighten, sustainability information is being tied more directly to pack design, procurement, supplier qualification, and product approval.
AI will still have to operate within the constraints of regulated food production. It cannot replace scientific judgement, regulatory accountability, supplier assurance, or audit trails. Its value lies in the areas where food businesses lose time through repetition, fragmented systems, document handling, specification management, supplier data capture, label control, carbon information, and workflow reconciliation.
TraceGains has already placed connected data and AI at the centre of its industry programme through TraceGains puts connected data and AI at centre of Together 2026 agenda. Gombosi’s appointment gives that agenda a sharper engineering focus, with product delivery now tied closely to Veralto’s wider packaging, artwork, quality control, and compliance infrastructure.
Food product development and compliance are converging. A new ingredient, a packaging change, a reformulation, or a sustainability claim can trigger questions across allergens, nutrition, origin, artwork, recyclability, carbon, supplier documentation, and retailer approval. TraceGains’ task is to make those dependencies easier to manage at production speed, where accuracy, accountability, and timely approvals count as much as new functionality.
