May 27, 2014
 

Danisco Animal Nutrition appoints new staff to improve customer support

Danisco Animal Nutrition, a business subsidiary of DuPont Industrial Biociences, has made recent appointments as part of efforts to support customer demand for its nutrition-led animal health solutions.

Andrew Harker, global industry leader for animal nutrition, commented, "The market is challenged by the growing consumer demand for antibiotic-free, high quality protein at a low cost. To help address these issues, we are strengthening our teams with additional experts in microbiology and animal health, and continue to invest heavily in probiotic and other solutions that are proven to support healthy animal performance."

Microbials expert, Sue Dunham, will join the US team as a technical service representative specialising in poultry probiotic and enzyme/probiotic combination solutions (the Enviva® and Syncra® range respectively). Her previous position with DuPont Nutrition and Health's Innovation Lab has provided her with an understanding of the company's healthy nutrition probiotic solutions

Dunham holds a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology.

Mahmoud Fawzy Abd El Aziz Yousef has been appointed business manager for the Middle East. Based in Cairo, he will be responsible for supporting customers and distributors in the region across the company's enzyme, betaine and probiotic portfolio.

Youself is a graduate of veterinarian medicine and has worked for Pfizer Animal Health, a business unit of Pfizer, for the last nine years.

Kirsty Kemmett joins the UK-based global technical services team to provide support on Enviva® probiotic and Syncra® AVI enzyme/probiotic combination solutions. She has a specialist microbiological background which includes a Bachelor in veterinary pathogenesis and a PhD focused on the epidemiology, molecular and pathogenic characterisation of the avian pathogenic E.coli in broiler chickens.

Alex Wealleans is appointed to analyse worldwide trial data and provide local customers with data to support performance and digestibility capabilities for Danisco's  probiotic, enzyme and betaine solutions.

Wealleans holds a PhD which focused on the effects of tannin-containing feeds on growth performance and meat quality in pigs.