Zinpro Corporation, the US trace mineral nutrition supplier for livestock, poultry, aquaculture and companion animals, has announced that Graham Webster has joined the company as regional marketing manager – Europe and South Africa.
An experienced marketing manager in animal nutrition and health, Dr Webster will develop and lead marketing-team strategies, initiatives and messaging that promote sales across multiple international markets within Zinpro’s regional business enterprise.
Bringing more than 20 years’ commercial experience in animal health and nutrition businesses, he will also contribute as a member of the overall management team in the region, said Zinpro.
Dr Webster most recently worked as global branding and communications manager for Trouw Nutrition.
Previous roles also included associate director/commercial services manager, senior livestock product manager and business development manager – ruminants for an animal health company.
He earned his doctorate in animal science from the University of Nottingham in the UK and gained a business diploma from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Alia Aljamal has also joined Zinpro as a poultry research assistant. Based in Lincoln, Nebraska, Dr. Aljamal will support the company’s Research and Nutritional Services (RNS) team, conduct scientific research reviews and prepare research and production-related information for internal and external communications. The company also reported that Supunnee Jiarakhun has been promoted to vice president, sales – Southeast Asia and India.
Serge Corneillie, who worked at Cargill's Diamond V feed ingredient business, posted on LinkedIn last month that he was resigning from the company. His role within that division was business development and technical manager for Japan, South Korea, and the aquaculture market in Asia.
"Not sure what the future will bring me. It is a shot in the dark," he wrote [as first reported on Undercurrent News].
Corneillie worked for Mowi [formerly know as Marine Harvest] and, from 2009 to 2016, he also held various roles in Asia for US headquartered animal health and nutrition player, Alltech.
DSM has announced the appointment of Carlos Saviani as global sustainability lead for Animal Nutrition and Health.
"He will play a key role in the further development and rollout of the company’s animal nutrition purpose-led sustainability strategy. He will focus on engagement with customers and associated stakeholders in the global animal protein value chain."
Prior to joining DSM, Saviani served as vice president of the World Wild Fund’s (WWF) Food Sustainability team, and led the organisation’s efforts to promote the adoption and implementation of sustainability for meats, seafood, and dairy products by large influential companies across the animal protein value chain.
DSM said he brings over 26 years of professional experience in different aspects of the global livestock value chain, from managing a beef ranch to holding roles in organisations such as Genus ABS, Zoetis/Pfizer AH and Merial/Sanofi.
Saviani has also sat on the boards of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and the International Egg Foundation.
Wilbur-Ellis Nutrition, which supplies ingredients for the livestock, pet food and aquaculture industries, said it has hired industry veteran, Pedro Curry, as chief operating officer.
Curry, who will be based in the division's HQ in Vancouver, Washington, has been tasked with determining the best way for operations to continue supporting the company's commercial efforts, according to the announcement.
He was most recently general manager for QualiTech’s Ag Nutrition division and has spent the last 25 years of his career in the US, Asia-Pacific, Central and South America building his expertise in operations, sales and general management, specifically in agribusiness industries, said Wilbur-Ellis.
Anizome, a company focusing on the commercial application of microbiome science in animal health, has appointed Dr Ellie Virtue as its CEO.
It said that she brings extensive scientific and commercial experience in start-up human and veterinary biotech companies: "She has provided consulting and business services to early-stage human and veterinary companies where her roles have included a wide range of functions including operations, commercialisation, R&D, project management and alliance management."
Prior to taking on this CEO role, Dr Virtue was investment manager at Stonehaven Incubate, one of Anizome's founding partners, where it was her role to identify human health technologies with potential for the animal health market.
She has a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University and a PhD from University of Melbourne, Australia, while her PhD research on zoonotic viruses was conducted at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory. From 2011 until 2017, she worked for the animal health monoclonal antibody company, Nexvet Biopharma, where her roles encompassed research and development, operations, alliance management and business development, said Anizome.
Jeppe Loli Sørensen has been named chief financial officer of Danish fishmeal and fish oil producer, TripleNine Group.
He has a background in auditing and has held a variety of roles over the past 16 years including controller, accounting manager and CFO of several companies.
TripleNine announced last month that it was forced to make redundancies at two of its factories in Denmark due to raw material supply issues. The job cuts will be seen at the company's Thyboron and Esbjerg processing plants.
CEO, Jes Bjerregaard, told FeedNavigator that the fishmeal producer is feeling the impact of the reduced 2020 quotas for blue whiting and Baltic sea sprat; there are concerns also that the low 2019 quotas for sizzling and North Sea sprat will be maintained.
"The quotas on industrial fish in Denmark are decreasing, and, thereby, the volume to our factory is decreasing significantly compared to prior years," said the CEO.
