The Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders has approved Nutreco's proposal to appoint Jerry Vergeer, Knut Nesse and Frank Tielens as members of the Executive Board next to CEO Wout Dekker and CFO Cees van Rijn.

 

The appointments as Executive Vice President are for a period of four years, effective July 1, 2009 and terminating on June 30, 2013.

 

Vergeer is responsible for the division Agriculture (compound feed and meat businesses). Vergeer began his career with Maple Leaf Foods and held various management positions, as of 2005 as President, in Maple Leaf Foods Animal Nutrition.

 

Since the acquisition of Maple Leaf Animal Nutrition by Nutreco in 2007, he is President of Nutreco Canada.

 

Nesse is responsible for the division Aquaculture (global fish feed businesses). Nesse started his career in 1992 with the Scana group in Stavanger and joined Nutreco's Skretting Norway in 1995.

 

Nesse has extensive knowledge of the aquaculture business and has held different positions within Skretting fish feed businesses. During his career, he was posted to China and Chile, and in April 2006, he was appointed as Managing Director of Skretting Salmon Feed.

 

Tielens is responsible for the division Specialties (global premix and feed specialties businesses). Tielens began his career in 1988 at AkzoNobel's Chemicals Division, where he held positions with increasing responsibility until 1998.

 

From 1999 to 2004 he was General Manager of Organon, AkzoNobel's Pharma Division, in Venezuela and Germany. In 2005, he assumed the position of President of Diosynth Biotechnology in the US and was Executive Vice President of global business development for Organon/Schering Plough in the US.

 

In January 2009, Frank Tielens joined Nutreco as Managing Director of Trouw Nutrition International.

 

Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed, employing nearly 9,300 people in 30 countries, with sales in 80 countries.