Enza Cianciotta's Delicious Second Act: Tech to Food

At 52, this Italian-Canadian entrepreneur walked away from a lucrative tech career to create something that actually feeds the soul, and it's working.When Enza Cianciotta tells you she's "loving" her late-in-life pivot to entrepreneurship, you believe her. After three decades as a software executive, traveling between Canada and London every three weeks, Enza did what most people only dream about: she walked away from the money to chase her passion. But this isn't your typical "follow your dreams" story. This is about a woman who saw a problem in our food system and decided to fix it, one authentic product at a time.Living in London for 12 years opened Enza's eyes to something most North Americans don't realize we're missing. "Coming from Europe, all the grocery stores here were laden with products full of high fructose corn syrup, emulsifiers, stabilizers," she explains. "In Europe, GMOs are banned." The revelation that hit hardest? Learning that a tomato could contain shrimp genes, meaning someone with a shellfish allergy could have an anaphylactic reaction to what should be a safe, natural product.This European perspective, combined with her Italian heritage and nutritional education, became the foundation for SOLENZI, her "free-from" food brand. When Enza...