Jolanda Van Haarlem managing director, Cargill Premix & Nutrition (CPN) Europe, has been promoted to the position of CPN group director.
Cargill said she brings deep expertise in strategic marketing, employee engagement, commercial development and operations:
“She has played a critical role in shaping the CPN Europe and CPN China businesses as managing director and helped position them for long-term growth. Under her leadership, CPN China won Business of the Year in 2014 and was named a finalist for three consecutive years. Jolanda has also been instrumental in integrating the marketing functions of CPN and CFN into a unified global team focused on helping our commercial businesses better serve customers.”
Van Haarlem joined Cargill with the Provimi acquisition in 2011. She received her MBA from the Henley Business School in the UK, and also holds two undergraduate degrees - a bachelor of business administration from Henley and a bachelor of arts from HES Rotterdam.
Cargill said she will continue to support the CPN Europe business as managing director as well as add the CPN Europe group director responsibilities. She will then take on group director responsibilities for other geographies over time.
Van Haarlem will report to Chuck Warta, president of Cargill Premix & Nutrition and she joins the CPN Group Leadership Team (GLT) as well.
Olivier Delamea, who has been general manager of AVRIL’S oils and condiments business division since January 2017, has now taken over responsibilities in relation the French group’s oilseeds processing business line. Jean-Baptiste Bachelerie, who previously headed up that segment, has been appointed director general of innovation at CREADEV, the strategic investment fund.
AVRIL’s oilseeds processing business saw €3.1bn turnover in 2017. It groups the industrial processing of oilseed grains from crushing to refining to esterification and the production and sale of the resulting oils, biodiesel, protein-rich oilseed meals, vegetable glycerin, lecithins, phospholipids and essential ingredients.
Sandeep Sharma, previously a researcher at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), says he is passionate about sustainabillity issues. He has joined the global R&D division of fish feed group, BioMar. His new role is scientist, with a focus on fish nutrition requirements. He will be based at BioMar R&D in Trondheim in Norway.
Sharma obtained his PhD in Biotechnology at NMBU. His PhD demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) for the utilization of brown seaweed and wood biomass for the production of microbial protein ingredients for the aquaculture sector.
Linked to the BIOFEED project, his PhD was focused on the detailed characterization of biomass, process optimization and scale up, including the enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation aspects, formulation of feed and fish feed trials, evaluating growth performances and nutrient digestibility.
He has demonstrated that brown seaweed and spruce wood can indeed be used to produce protein-rich yeast for Atlantic salmon diets.
Prior to starting his PhD, he was working in Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, R&D, India as a research associate, from where he sought out a switch to a career path more focused on sustainable technology.
Jacques Georis has been appointed director of innovation enzymes at the Kerry Group.
Previously, he was senior R&D manager, enzymes discovery and industrialization, at the Puratos Group. He clocked up over 18 years experience at that Belgian company.
In his role in Kerry, he oversees RD&A programs from ideation to commercialisation mostly for animal nutrition, pet food and some specific programs in human nutrition. He also manages R&D teams, and coordinates the related innovation portfolio within the global functional ingredients & actives (FI&A) business. He is, in the main, based at Kerry EMEA’s Global Technology and Innovation Center in Naas, Co Kildare in Ireland.
Nick Maas has taken on new responsibilities, with the role of global pricing manager, feed additives and animal health products, at Nutreco.
Maas joined the Dutch group in May 2014.
In his global CSO role at Nutreco, Maas coaches and trains supply chain teams with an emphasis on the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. In that role, he is also responsible for KPI reports for the global supply chain, and for overseeing lean management initiatives within the global supply chain of feed additives.
Prior to joining Nutreco, Maas worked at Centrafarm, a Netherlands based company that markets and supplies generic medicines.
Lallemand Animal Nutrition has hired two new aquaculture experts.
François Cellier [pictured] and Khuong Duy Nguyen have both been appointed as aquaculture technical support managers, based in France and Vietnam, respectively.
Cellier holds a MEA in aquaculture from CNAM/INTECHMER in Montpellier, France. Prior to this, he obtained a professional license in Quimper and Sète, France, in aquaculture technology and farm management. He has practical experience in aquaculture production and the use of new technologies across species including shrimps, fish and shellfish in Asia, Europe and Oceania.
Lallemand said he would provide technical and marketing support on tropical aquaculture globally.
Nguyen holds a master’s degree in aquaculture majoring in aquaculture health management from the Laboratory for Aquaculture and Artemia Reference Center, Faculty of Bio-Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium. He has studied aquatic pathobiology at Can Tho University in Vietnam.
The company said he brings valuable experience in shrimp farming research, especially in bioremediation and health management.
Nguyen will oversee shrimp research and development trials and contribute to expansion of the Lallemand Animal Nutrition aquaculture business in Vietnam.