January 29, 2021

Adisseo expands technical and commercial teams in China and Vietnam

Adisseo recently announced a number of appointments in its Business Unit Aquaculture in China and Vietnam.

Adisseo says it is fully committed to grow in dynamic aquaculture markets globally and therefore consistently hires top professionals that bring value to their customers.

"Feed additives are playing an increasingly important role in aquaculture feed formulations and profitability of fish and shrimp farmers. Health promotors in functional feeds have proven to be an essential component of prevention strategies to reduce the impact of diseases and parasites. Digestive and metabolic enhancers improve the efficiency for carnivorous species of new types of formulations based on less marine proteins and fats and maximise feed cost efficiency in omnivorous species. Palatability solutions offer support to compensate feed attractiveness and protein quality for feed formulations based on novel ingredients. These wide range of additives require a species-specific optimisation for different aquaculture species and regions. This increases the need for specialised customer support at local and global level," says Dr. Peter Coutteau, business unit director Aquaculture for Adisseo.

Guiping Zhao joins Adisseo from February 1 as regional technical manager Aquaculture for China. Guiping has obtained a Bachelor's degree in Aquaculture from Dalian Ocean University and an MSc in Aquatic Animal Nutrition and Feed from the Ocean University of China. She has an extensive experience in the Chinese aquafeed industry from 10 years at Alpha Feed, one of the leading domestic aqua feedmills in China, where she has been in different positions related to quality control management, feed formulation, feed evaluation and technical services. In December 2018, Zhao took up a new job challenge as technical service manager Aquaculture in a large feed additive company in China. Zhao has ample experience in feed formulation for a variety of Chinese aquatic species, feed ingredients, feed processing, quality control and certification, applied research and developing feeds for special customer needs.

Huynh van Lanh joins from February 1 as aquaculture sales manager - Vietnam. Lanh graduated from Can Tho University as Aquaculture Engineer with a degree in Business Administration. Lanh has over 15 years of technical sales experience in different sectors of the Vietnamese aquaculture industry including feed, farm care products and feed mill additives. He has been in sales manager and key account manager positions for leading regional and international companies in Vietnam. Lanh has gained a broad understanding of the market structure and route-to-market in Vietnamese aquaculture.