Chris Goppelsroeder, currently president and CEO of DSM Nutritional Products (DNP) and member of the DSM Executive Committee, will retire and leave the company on April 1, 2021.
Dimitri de Vreeze, DSM's Co-CEO, will step into Chris' DNP leadership role in his capacity as COO.
The company said that Goppelsroeder has had a long and successful career at DSM, having first joined in 2003 when DSM acquired Roche Holding AG's vitamins division. In 2013, he took on his current role.
“Since then, he has led DSM's largest business to above-market growth and transformed its operating model to a customer-centric innovation powerhouse that is a world leader in health through nutrition. He was instrumental in DNP's growth organically as well as through acquisitions, including recently Glycom and the Erber Group.
“In addition, Chris played a crucial role in the development of big innovation projects such as Clean Cow/Bovaer, Veramaris and DSM's new moves in the space of precision and personalized nutrition.”
DSM Co-CEO, Geraldine Matchett, along with de Vreeze, said "Chris leaves a tremendous legacy and, on behalf of the entire company, we wish him all the best for his well-deserved retirement."
Alltech Coppens has announced the appointment of Ronald Faber as its CEO and global aquaculture lead.
In this role, the company said Faber leads a global team of aquaculture experts who are experienced in fish nutrition, feed production and technical support.
“Alltech has significantly scaled its global aquaculture footprint in recent years through the acquisition of Coppens International in Europe and Guabi in Latin America,” said Dr Mark Lyons, president and CEO of Alltech. “As reflected in our Global Feed Survey over the last decade, aquaculture continues to be the fastest growing protein sector, and there are abundant opportunities for us to provide a greater level of support to producers globally as they seek to develop their operations sustainably. Ronald’s extensive experience in European and Asian aquaculture, complemented by our team of aquaculture specialists throughout the world, will bring together the full strength of our program to the benefit of our customers.”
Faber received his master’s degree with a specialization in aquaculture and fisheries from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He began his career in the aquaculture and veterinary industries and joined Coppens International in 1998 as an area sales manager for the Mediterranean region. In 2003, he moved to Thailand where he worked as a nutritional consultant for various fish and shrimp feed companies, serving customers in Thailand, Vietnam, India and Indonesia. He returned to the Netherlands in 2005 and continued his career with Coppens International, which was acquired by Alltech in 2016.
Rob Kiers has been made M&A and integration director at ForFarmers. In this role, he will be responsible for mergers and acquisitions along with scouting, deal-making, process and transaction management; he will also execute integration plans, driving the company's synergy objectives.
Kiers spent much of his career to date at Nutreco, where his most recent role was as managing director, Skretting Asia and Nutreco Africa.
He has a masters in international management from Radboud University, in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.
Russ Nugent, PhD, has joined the US Swine Health Information Center (SHIC) board of directors, representing the US National Pork Board (NPB).
Nugent’s training and life experience have led to his interest in disease prevention, biosecurity, and production issues, noted the SHIC. He also views sustainability as a related issue.
He spent nearly three decades working in Tyson’s live swine division. There he cultivated his core pork production experiences, knowledge, and contacts. He began as a geneticist with the company and quickly moved to a role overseeing the technical service aspects of Tyson production systems. His responsibilities included herd health, risk management around disease issues, and biosecurity, said SHIC.
For the last 20 years, Nugent has also been involved with the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, NPB, the American Society of Animal Science, and more, reported the organization.
He has been active as well in relation to tackling the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in the US and was serving on the NPB swine health committee during the height of the outbreak. He is currently is engaged in African swine fever (ASF) prevention efforts through engagement on a range of task forces and other groups.
Mineral based feed additive supplier, Amlan International, has named Ricardo Ivanovski as its new technical services manager for Brazil.
The company said the appointment is aimed at further strengthening its technical service support in Brazil as well as expanding its reach with protein producers and distributors in that market.
Ivanovski brings years of industry experience to the company, said Amlan. He has worked as an animal nutritionist, evaluating ingredients and formulating diets for broilers and breeders, and he has also held technical services positions in animal health companies, where he focused on business strategy initiatives.
Most recently, he was a technical services manager at Novus.
He is a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná with a degree in animal science, and a masters in applied nutrition.
The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed a trio of international aquaculture experts to its board, bringing a combined 80 years of experience to the leadership team.
Alan Sutherland, [pictured], marine director at the Scottish Salmon Company; Alan Tinch, technical director of Benchmark Genetics; and Pieter van West, director of the International Centre for Aquaculture Research and Development at the University of Aberdeen have been appointed to support the innovation centre’s drive towards a more sustainable future for aquaculture.
With almost four decades working in the global fish farming sector, Sutherland has a strong track record in business development and senior leadership, said the organization. He is returning to SAIC, having been a founding director when it launched in 2014. He previously led the Scottish, USA and Canadian divisions of Pan Fish and Marine Harvest – now Mowi – and has held a number of external board and committee positions, including the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum, African Century Foods and VeroBlue.
Alan Tinch is a specialist in advanced livestock breeding and genetics and is the current technical lead for Benchmark Genetics for its global breeding programmes for aquatic species. He has over thirty years’ experience managing commercial research and development projects across aquatic and terrestrial species – currently working on Atlantic salmon, shrimp and tilapia – with a strong focus on innovation and development in Scottish aquaculture.
In addition to joining the SAIC board, Pieter van West has been appointed to the innovation centre’s Independent Scientific Panel as deputy chair. He has an extensive academic background as part of the International Centre of Aquaculture Research and Development and the School of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
