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NEW APPOINTMENTS

SIMON HEATH NAMED AMERICAN SEAFOODS ANNOUNCES
CHIEF COMMERCIAL CEO TRANSITION
OFFICER AT AB AGRI American Seafoods Group (“Amer-
ican Seafoods”), a global leader in
AB Agri has appointed one of its sustainable protein and one of the
longest-serving leaders to a new world’s largest at-sea processor
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(CCO), as part of its growth plans. Hake, announced today the appoint-
Simon Heath, who was previously Managing Director ment of Einar Gustafsson to the role
of animal nutrition business unit AB Connect, is now RI &KLHI ([HFXWLYH 2IÞFHU HIIHFWLYH
supporting business development and strategy across upon completion of his transition.
all divisions of the AB Agri group. Gustafsson will succeed Mikel Durham, who has decid-
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He will oversee plans to expand AB Agri’s geograph-
ical footprint with a key focus on South East Asia, Cen- “Einar brings to American Seafoods proven senior
tral and Eastern Europe and the Americas. In addition, leadership and exceptional strategic capabilities in
Simon will support the development of the group’s developing and growing worldwide seafood and fresh
product and services in the dairy, swine, and poultry foods businesses,” said Scott Perekslis, member of the
sectors. American Seafoods Board of Directors and Managing
Partner of Bregal Partners. “Einar’s track record of suc-
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experience from within our business, Simon is in a cess in building international brands will be vital, as he
leads American Seafoods through this next chapter of
unique position to drive our commercial strategy and growth.”
support me with our mergers and acquisition activi-
ties. He will help to ensure we have an aligned, com- Gustafsson said, “I am very excited about the oppor-
mercial, responsible and sustainable approach to the tunity to lead American Seafoods — with its impressive
animal nutrition industry across continents.” heritage and history — into a new era of growth.
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SUPPORT TEAM HAS A NEW TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER: MARLEEN BERNARD

In December, Roxell welcomed Marleen Bernard on board as a new Technical Support Manag-
er. She is responsible for the organization of the support team in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
Russia and Africa.
Before stepping into this role, Marleen spent many years leading international service teams in
the industries of nutrition and banking & retail technology. She brings with her solid professional
experience in service provision, IT and technical support. Marleen has a master’s degree in Ap-
plied Information Technology.
A warm welcome to Marleen and we wish her all the best in her new role!
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BENCHMARK GENETICS STRENGTHENS THE MARJAN VAN LOON
CORE GENETICS TEAM WITH TWO NEW HIRES APPOINTED TO SUPERVISORY
BOARD OF VDL GROEP
The leading provider of
applied genetics services
to the aquaculture industry, Marjan van Loon will join the Su-
Benchmark Genetics, is con- pervisory Board of VDL Groep on
tinuing to strengthen the core 1 February 2022. Immediately after
genetics team by hiring Dr. graduating in Chemical Engineering
Grazyella Yoshida as Senior at Eindhoven University of Technology, Van Loon (1965)
Geneticist and Hans Ekvall as Junior Geneticist. Both started working for Shell in 1989. Since 1 January 2016,
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this multinational.
Grazyella Yoshida earned her MSc in Animal Sci-
ence from the University of Maringa, Brazil, in 2014, The Supervisory Board of VDL Groep also consists of
and her Ph.D. in Genetics and Animal Breeding from Louis Deterink (chairman), Arie Kraaijeveld, Lau Pas and
Sao Paulo State University in 2018. She has worked as :LP YDQ GHU /HHJWH $V KLV WHUP RI RIÞFH H[SLUHV $ULH
DQ DVVRFLDWH ZLWK -RVÆ 0DQXHO <¾ÎH]p UHQRZQHG UH- Kraaijeveld (78) will resign at the next general meeting
search group at the University of Chile, supporting the of shareholders. Arie Kraaijeveld has been a supervisory
development and uptake of quantitative and genomic director at VDL since 2005. We thank him for his efforts
tools in R&D projects with numerous aquaculture spe- over the past 17 years.
cies. Also, she has extensive experience from support On the recommendation of the Supervisory Board, the
to applied breeding programs for salmonids and ti- general meeting of shareholders has appointed Marjan
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competence and capacity to the team in many rele- der Leegte: “We are delighted with the arrival of Marjan
vant areas for Benchmark’s ambitious genetics work. as a new member of our Supervisory Board. Partly be-
This includes, among other areas, large-scale genetic cause of her extensive management experience in an in-
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genomic information, and technical supervision of ap- transition, innovation and technology, Marjan is a valua-
plied breeding programs. ble addition to our Supervisory Board.”
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