Egil Magne Haugstad [pictured] was recently elected president and Eduardo Goycoolea vice president of the next management board of the marine ingredients organisation, the IFFO. They will take on their new roles from January 1, 2024.
Magne Haugstad is the CEO of Pelagia and current vice president of IFFO.
“I look forward to contributing to develop knowledge and competence within the marine ingredients sector. We will also explore how IFFO can keep developing its services and be an even better meeting place for our industry," he remarked.
Pelagia’s head office is in Norway with factories concentrated on North Atlantic. The fishmeal and -oil factories are in Norway, England, Scotland, and Ireland. Pelagia is also the largest producer of pelagic seafood globally and high-quality omega-3 concentrates in Norway, and the company runs the biggest fleet of vessels collecting by-products categories 3 and 2 from the salmon industry.
Goycoolea is one of the founders of the IFFO and was co-president of the organization back in 2001. He was the sales and marketing director for El Golf, and then Blumar, for more than 20 years, until 2015. He has also been a board member of several other local and international organizations around the world, including being the executive director of New World Currents, a JV of Chilean salmon producing companies looking to sell into the Chinese market, and director of Exapesca, a JV involving Chilean fish oil producers.
Goycoolea, who also represented the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) in the ASC Steering Committee that developed the new ASC Feed Standard, said the IFFO has become the reference point for the marine ingredients industry, and that its events provide an unrivalled opportunity for the whole value chain to meet.
The US National Chicken Council (NCC) has named Randy Day, retired CEO, Perdue Farms Inc, as its chairman for 2023-2024.
Day [pictured] led that US company’s senior leadership team, which includes Perdue Foods, Perdue AgriBusiness, and Perdue Farms corporate functions. He retired this summer and is now serving as special advisor to the company's board.
He began his professional career with Perdue Farms in 1980, holding various positions of increasing responsibility in the company’s two operating divisions, Perdue Foods and Perdue AgriBusiness.
Peco Foods COO, Bill Griffith, is the new NCC vice chairman. He has more than 25 years of management experience in the food industry and is known for his strong reputation for innovation, sustainability, and quality, according to the Council.
David Jackson, COO at Simmons Foods, Simmons Prepared Foods, Simmons Pet Food and Simmons Animal Nutrition, takes on the role of NCC secretary-treasurer. He joined Simmons in 1991 and has over 32 years of poultry and pet food experience.
In addition to the three new officers, Mike Brown was elected to a 13th term as president of NCC.
Barentz, a distributor of life science ingredients and specialty ingredients throughout North America, has appointed Brian Esters as a new poultry national account manager.
He has extensive poultry industry sales and management experience, having worked at Arm and Hammer, Quality Technology International, Biozyme Inc, Tyson Foods, Georges Inc., and OK Farms.
In addition to his experience managing teams of over 100 employees, he has more than 18 years of live production experience in broilers, broiler breeders, and feed milling. And he holds a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Poultry Science) from the University of Arkansas, reported Barentz.
The company said it sees this appointment as a way of accelerating its growth in the feed additive space.
Established in 1953, Barentz sources branded specialty ingredients from leading manufacturers worldwide. Its ingredient experts work to provide value-added technical support including pre-mixing, blending, ingredient formulation and ingredient testing from the company's formulation centers and application laboratories in EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
Barentz employs around 2,600 people worldwide, and it reports annual turnover of around €2.5bn.
Alltech says it is enhancing its marketing capabilities and establishing new teams to deliver greater strategic partnership across the business for customers.
“We are capitalizing on the geographical and value chain differentiators of our global marketing structure, providing more pathways for our field-based team members to bring the voice of the customer back into the business,” said Susanna Elliott, chief marketing and communications officer at Alltech. “Our globally connected yet locally focused marketing strategy is aligning to deliver more relevance – and competitive edge – to our customers.”
Within marketing, the company is establishing a new data and insights function, positioning its creative team to take a global creative agency approach and building new pathways for market and customer engagement.
Species marketing councils have been created that include regional marketing experts in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe and in Asia Pacific.
New appointments within Alltech’s global marketing team include:
Species teams:
- Danieke Ewalts (Netherlands), Global Aqua Marketing Lead [pictured]
Creative team:
- Lisa Smith (USA), Director of Creative Operations & Marketing Development
- Alan Henthorne (USA), Creative Director
- Irene MacHugh (Ireland), Associate Creative Director
- Jennifer Allen (USA), Global Art Director
- Ruth Kelly (Ireland), Design Manager for Europe and Asia-Pacific
Data & Insights team:
- Amanda Stumbo (USA), Director of Business Insights
- Roel Coenders (USA), Associate Director of Data
- Leona Shaojing Luo (Ireland), Associate Director of Business Intelligence
- Clare Fahey (Ireland), Director of Customer Insights
Communications team:
- Lorie Hailey (USA), Director of Communications
- Liana Dobler (Spain), Spanish & Portuguese Communications Manager
Philip Carroll, chair of Meat Industry Ireland, was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Meat Secretariat at their General Assembly last month.
The meeting took place in Maastricht on the margins of the World Meat Congress.
Carroll has been chair of the Irish organization since 2015.
