Aldo Bernasconi is the VP of Data Science for the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED). His responsibilities include coordinating the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information relevant to omega-3 markets, the development of GOED’s Clinical Study Database, and scientific research on the role of omega-3 fatty acids in health. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Utah.

Allan Cooper is Vitapro’s Business & Value Creation Director. In the last 10 years, Allan has developed extensive experience in the global food industry, mainly in agribusiness and aquaculture, leading Peru's main integrated shrimp producer and exporter before joining Vitapro in 2020. Vitapro is a market leader in nutritional and technological solutions for aquaculture in Latin America. Its main brand is Nicovita, which is specialized in shrimp feed and is present in 7 countries in the region. Today, Allan is focused in leading Vitapro’s Corporate Business Strategy and throughout his experience in aquaculture he has participated in various international industry events as a speaker and panelist. Allan is committed to Vitapro’s purpose: to nourish the future by transforming aquaculture, and to continuously develop Vitapro’s sustainability agenda as a leader in the industry.

D. Allen Davis is an Aquatic Animal Nutritionist holding the position of Professor with the School of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences.  Auburn University. He is a warm water nutritionist specializing in applied nutrition and feed management. He has authored a number of publications and also serves as associate editor for The Journal of the World Aquaculture Society.

Anne Mette is the Executive Director of European Fishmeal and Fish oil Producers (EFFOP), the international association of European fishmeal and fish oil producers. She is also the Executive Director of Marine Ingredients Denmark representing the Danish fishmeal and fish oil industry.  Anne Mette has a demonstrated history of working in the food and fishery industry. In her past, Anne Mette has been in the Danish foreign service and has solid experience with public management, political communications, and international relations.  Anne Mette is board member of several European market and fishing organisations. She was IFFO Vice President 2018-2019 and President for the period 2020-2021

Árni M. Mathiesen is born in Iceland on 02/10/1958. BVM&S, Veterinary qualifications, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburg, Scotland 1983. M.Sc. Aquatic Veterinary Science/Aquatic Pathobiology, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland 1985. General veterinary practice in various parts of Iceland 1983-1985. Veterinary Officer for Fish Diseases in Iceland 1985-1991. Managing Director Faxalax Fish Farm 1988-1989. Member of the Icelandic Parliament, the Althingi, 1991-2009. Minister of Fisheries 1999-2005. Minister of Finance 2005-2009. Assistant Director General at FAO in Rome and Head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department 2010-2020. Chairman of the Board, Transport for the Capital Area Plc. 2020 to date. Senior Advisor at Iceland Ocean Cluster 2020 to date. Member of the Board of Directors GSA 2021 to date. Independent Chair Global Round Table on Marine Ingredients 2021 to date.

Arnt-Ove B. Kolås has a M.S.c in Industrial Economics with specialization in Operations Research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) including 1 year as exchange student at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany. Arnt-Ove has held various position in the seafood and consulting industry and is currently the COO of the Feed devision in Pelagia. 

Brad Rude is a Vice President and Director of Cargill’s Aqua Nutrition (CQN) business focused on global sourcing, risk management and feed formulation. Brad has been with Cargill for 17 years and has a broad range of experiences, from commodity trading, supply chains and feed production to sustainability. Brad currently resides in Minneapolis, MN, USA – the home of Cargill’s headquarters – but spent most of the last 10 years in international roles. Brad led CQN’s global sourcing for marine and plant ingredients from 2016-2018.

Dr Brett Glencross is the Technical Director of IFFO (The Marine Ingredients Organisation) having commenced this role in June 2021. Prior to this role he was the Professor of Nutrition at the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Over the past 25 years he has worked in various academic, institutional, and industrial roles across Australasia, the Middle East and Europe. Throughout his career he has worked closely with many aquaculture production (farming) and feed companies throughout each of these regions. His research achievements have delivered many industrial outcomes resulting in the development of new processes, products, and applications. For his achievements in this regard, Brett has received multiple awards and commendations from both Government and Industrial organisations. At an academic level, he was one of the former editors of the journal Aquaculture Nutrition from 2008 to 2016. He is also the current Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium for Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF). He has also been a Director of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (2013 - 2016), as well as undertaking leadership roles at the CSIRO in Australia and the Institute of Aquaculture. Brett has Honours and Masters Degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Western Australia and a PhD in Animal Nutrition from the University of Queensland.

Brian Murtagh is co-owner of Animalfeeds, a privately-held group of companies founded in New York in 1955,  that operates a diversified portfolio within the fishmeal and fishoil world for over 66 years. Animalfeeds owns a network of subsidiaries that includes fishmeal distribution terminals in  the United States (Atlantic Shippers of Texas), Mexico (Animalfeeds Trading SA de CV in Guaymas, Sonora) and Panama (Central Pacific Protein Corp); fishing operations, fishmeal production and a fishoil tank terminal in Panama (Pesquera Taboguilla, S.A.); and worldwide trading offices in Santiago,  Chile ( Animalfeeds Ltda.). Brian Murtagh joined the fishmeal industry in 1984 and was part of the management buy-out that took control of the company in 1993

Lawyer at the Catholic University of Peru and MBA by Adolfo Ibañez University of Chile. She has long experience in public administration in Peru, she has held the positions of Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Minister of Energy and Mines, And Foreign Affairs Minister of Peru.  As well, she has worked as a lawyer specializing in regulatory issues at the Miranda & Amado law firm where she was partner. She is currently chairman of the board of the National Fisheries Society, of Peru Sostenible and of Azerta Comunicación Estratégica. She is also member of the Board of directors of Interbank, IFS and Technofast S.A and vice-president of the Arbitration Court of AmCham.

Chris Giles became economics editor for the Financial Times in October 2004, having previously served as a leader writer. His reporting beat covers global and UK economic affairs and he writes a UK economics column fortnightly. Before joining the FT as economics editor, he was an economics reporter for the BBC, worked for Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator and started his career with seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers

Christian Meinich joined Chr. Holtermann AS, Oslo, Norway in 1987 and is today the General Manager of the company. Holtermann is an independent commodity brokerage house est.1916, mainly brokering raw materials for the food- feed- and technical industries. Christian is also past president of FOSFA International, London, a contract issuing and arbitral body covering 85% of the global trade in oils and fats. Christian holds a BSBA degree in Finance from University of Denver and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Chris Free is Research Faculty at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has a BA in Conservation Biology from Middlebury College and a PhD in Oceanography from Rutgers University. His research is focused on understanding the impacts of climate change on marine fisheries and on designing and testing management strategies that are adaptive to these impacts. He is also interested in bycatch avoidance, harmful algal blooms, and the role of seafood in human nutrition.

Dave Robb is the Program Lead for SeaFurther™ Sustainability, the signature sustainability initiative of Cargill Aqua Nutrition. Having worked on sustainability issues in aqua feeds for 20 years, he has experience across a broad range of issues, from supply chains and feed production, to how feeds can enable more sustainable farming.  Working on sustainable aquaculture can cover just about every aspect of the feed business, requiring a great degree of flexibility and collaboration within the business.  In Cargill, this also means working across species as diverse as salmon, shrimp, tilapia and even alligators! 
Through SeaFurther, Cargill is focusing on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with our customers’ farming activities, which also supports development across a broad range of other topics related to sustainability.  Progress on these topics helps development towards more sustainable aquaculture.  Cargill addresses sustainability through our value chain, from our raw material suppliers to how well our customers can grow their seafood using our nutritional products and services. Robb is working with broader Cargill teams and with our partners throughout the value chain from origin to end consumer to create sustainable developments – and transform, measure and report the benefits.

Duncan Leadbitter is a director of Australia based fisheries and natural resource consulting company, Fish Matter. The role of Fish Matter is to provide practical advice to industry, government and NGOs regarding the sustainable use of fish. Most of Duncan’s work is in based in Asia where he is currently involved in fisheries projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and India. He is developing a toolbox for multispecies fisheries management for the FAO. Duncan has been involved in the sustainable seafood movement for over twenty years having worked with the fishing industry in Australia prior to occupying senior positions in the Marine Stewardship Council. He also worked with market-based NGO Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and currently works part-time with the Aquaculture Stewardship Council. He is a director of a new standard for small scale fisheries (Community Catch) and was recently appointed to the Global Seafood Alliance’s Standards Oversight Committee. He has written a number of published works on fisheries, coastal zone and habitat matters. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong. He holds a Science Honours degree from the University of Sydney and a Masters degree in Environmental Planning from Macquarie University, Sydney.  Duncan is a keen scuba diver, snorkeler, spearfisherman, and photographer.

Eduardo is one of the founders of IFFO when former IFOMA an FEO were merged, being copresident during its first year. He has then been a Board member almost all the time, including Vicepresidency in 2016-2017 and then President for the 2018-2019 period. Eduardo was the Sales & 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 five chilean salmon producing companies joint venture to sell in China, and Director of Exapesca, a Chilean fishoil producers joint venture that sold their products together. He also represented GSI, the Global Salmon Initiative, in the ASC Steering Committee that developed the new ASC Feed Standard. Currently he seats in the Boards of IFFO and also in the Governing Body of MarinTrust.

Enrico Bachis joined IFFO in 2009 as Business and Information Manager and was then promoted to Market Research Director in 2017. He is responsible for the market intelligence produced by IFFO also representing the industry within the working group on agri-commodities of OECD-FAO. Enrico graduated from Cagliari University in Sardinia with a Political Science degree before obtaining an MSc in Financial Economics and a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham (UK).

Gonzalo Caceres currently serves as Commercial Director of TASA. For the past ten years, Gonzalo has been taking on different roles within TASA, such as Fish Oil Business Unit Manager, North America Sales Manager (Omega Business Unit) and Commercial and Customer Service Deputy Manager. Prior to joining the TASA family, Gonzalo was involved in different industries within the commercial sector such as textiles and agricultural products. What excites Gonzalo most about this industry is the synergy between fishing, processing, branding and globalization of fish meal and Fish oil omega-3s, and at the same time, he feels this is an opportunity to represent Peru as the leader of the industry. Gonzalo truly believes in the work of TASA guaranteeing the nutrition of tomorrow.

Gonzalo De Romaña has wide experience with the fishing industry due to his time working as TASA's  CFO between 2010 – 2014 and, after that he had a period of three years in other industries achieving excellent performance, his current position is as TASA's CEO since 2017. In previous experience he performed as Centria´s CEO (2014 – 2016), a Service and Administration company of BRECA Group, and also as CEO of Hoja Redonda (2016), an agroindustrial company of BRECA Group as well. De Romaña has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Universidad de Lima, and a MBA from Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan.   

Now in his second spell at IntraFish John Evans covers various global issues impacting fisheries and the seafood businesses for IntraFish from São Paulo, Brazil. Working across different time zones these include fishmeal quotas and market developments, the Chilean salmon industry, shrimp markets and supply chain issues. The fluent French, Portuguese and Spanish speaker was previously Europe Correspondent for IntraFish between 2004-2008. He covered metals and mining sectors for Metal-Pages later Argus Media for nine years before returning to IntraFish in 2017. A trained broadcast journalist, he gained experience in TV, radio and print journalism covering consumer issues, personal finance and sport before first moving to Brazil in 2001.

Jorge is the Global Sustainability Manager at Skretting and works together with the global and local teams to drive the implementation of the Sustainability RoadMap 2025 and fulfil the company’s purpose of “Feeding the Future”. Jorge holds an MSc in International Marketing from King’s College London and a Certificate in Corporate Sustainability from New York University.

Libby Woodhatch has had a varied career in the seafood supply chain and standards development spanning over 20 years. Prior to taking on the role of Executive Chair of MarinTrust, she was Head of Advocacy at Seafish, where her remit included the development of the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) standard and Seafish’s wider programme in seafood ethics. Libby was CEO of the industry body Seafood Scotland for ten years, where she helped improve the value of return to the Scottish seafood industry. During this time she also sat on the MSC’s Stakeholder Council. Libby has just completed a 9 year term as Vice Chair of the charity the Fishermen’s Mission, which provides welfare and support to fishermen and their families. Libby holds a BSc (Hons) in Fisheries Science from the University of Plymouth and an MSc in Fisheries Development & Planning from the University of Hull.

Maggie Xu joined IFFO in October 2011 as the China Manager and was promoted in October 2013 to China Director. She was previously a Trade Commissioner responsible for fish, seafood, meat and processed food and beverage products at the Embassy of Canada to the P. R. China for ten years. Maggie has a B.A. degree in English language and completed a summer school jointly given by London School of Economics and Peking University on international finance.

Marcela is a senior analyst of Food & Agribusiness Research. Since Feb-2021 at Rabobank Brazil, she is responsible for the analysis report of the market of grains soybeans, corn and cotton. With over ten years of experience, she served as a market intelligence analyst at CHS Agronegócio and as a grain research coordinator at Gavilon do Brasil, being responsible for consolidating analyzes and reports on profitability, marketing and planting-harvesting the sector. Graduated in Economic Sciences from the School of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” (ESALQ / USP), Marcela was also a research analyst and market intelligence for Cofco Internacional.

Martin has been in the seafood sector for over 40 years; including the recent past 25 years with Austral Fisheries (an Australian wild catch seafood business).   Since July 2019 he has been Managing Director of SeaBOS (Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship) which is a collaborative venture between ten of the world’s largest seafood businesses, and the Stockholm Resilience Centre in Sweden.  The aim of that collaboration is to lead a global transformation to sustainable seafood production and a healthy ocean. Martin has worked in various roles in seafood including from industry, government, and academia.  He holds a BSc from Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), a Graduate Diploma in Fisheries Technology from the Australian Maritime College, and is a passionate recreational angler.

Michiel Fransen heads up the Standards and Science Department at the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC). The ASC is the world’s leading certification scheme for farmed seafood and the ASC label only appears on food from farms that have been independently assessed and certified as being environmentally and socially responsible. The Standards and Science Department is responsible for Standard development, conducting research on standard content measuring programme impacts.  Prior to joining ASC, Michiel has worked with feed manufacturer Coppens International (now Alltech Coppens) and the FAO.

Petter M. Johannessen joined IFFO in September 2018 as Director General. Johannessen was previously Global Business Director for Risk Management and Sourcing at Cargill Aqua Nutrition and before that Supply Chain Director and Global Sourcing and Purchasing lead at EWOS Group. He has more than 20 years of experience from executive positions within SCM and material sourcing as well as strategic management support and improvement project design for global industry companies.

Economist and Business Administrator and Master's in Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Ricardo García Holtz also holds a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, United States. Vice chairman of Salmones Camanchaca S.A. since April 2018, and General Manager Camanchaca S.A. since 2011. Previously he worked 20 years in north American financial group AIG, where he was CEO for Latam &Caribe between 2005 and 2010, and Chairman of Seguros Interamericana between 2003 and 2010. Between 1992 and 1998 he was CFO of Seguros Interamericana and Vice Chairman of Investments for Latam. Previously I worked in the Investment Banking of Banco Santander. He has been director and Chairman of Amcham Chile and Co-Chairman of the Global Salmon Initiative, and currently Chairman of the Chilean Marketing Council. He also has a long teaching career, as a professor of Economics and Finance at the Catholic University of Chile and other universities between 1986 and 1994.

Mr. Peerbooms has spent most of his career in commercial roles in specialty Food Ingredients. After an initial start in the pharmaceutical division of Akzo Nobel, he joined Unilever to develop a nutraceutical business in Europe and Asia. After that, he held various commercial leadership positions in food ingredients which led to his role at Corbion as Senior Vice President Food in 2014. Next to his role at Corbion, he applies his passion for science and technology in his role as Chairman of Ingredients for Food Innovators. IFFI is a Dutch business network of producers of food ingredients that stretches members’ perspectives and business boundaries to be purposeful in creating healthy, sustainable and affordable foods. Mr. Peerbooms holds a Master of Science degree from Nyenrode Business University in Breukelen, the Netherlands.

Circular economy along a sustainable value chain motivated Dr Silke Middendorf to join Biomega Group AS in Bergen|Norway, at the beginning of 2022 as  Chief Commercial Officer. biomega® brands like SalMe® and Salmigo® represent the portfolio of proteins, peptides, oils and collagens from up-cycling salmon cut-offs. Silke´s strong background in Sales, Marketing and Product Development in the food ingredients and pharmaceutical industries supports her in better understanding customer needs and offering relevant consumer solutions connecting life science and nutritional ingredients. Former Silke holds global Marketing and Sales positions at Finzelberg, Lesaffre, Symrise and Pfizer.

Stefania Vannuccini is the Senior Fishery Officer responsible for fisheries and aquaculture statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). She is also Secretary of the Coordinating Working Party on Fishery Statistics (CWP). An economist, with specialization in statistics, she has several decades of expertise in the analysis of current and future trends of the fisheries and aquaculture sector, with several publications, articles and presentations produced. She is one of the main authors of the biannual FAO State of Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA). She is also responsible for the fish projections and chapter annually included in the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook and of other outlook studies.

Stephen Nicholson is the Global Sector Strategist--Grains and Oilseeds, Rabo AgriFinance in the RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness group. Nicholson has more than thirty-five years of experience in cash grain markets, hedging, commodity/ingredient procurement, commodity risk management and commodity analysis. A native of Iowa, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Farm Operations and Agricultural Education and a master’s degree in Agricultural Economics, both from Iowa State University. Nicholson joined Rabo AgriFinance in 2014 and was the Senior Grains and Oilseeds analyst for North America until being appointed Global Sector Strategist in 2022. Prior to joining Rabo AgriFinance, Nicholson was Category Manager and Chief Economist with International Food Products, a trader and distributor of food ingredients. Responsibilities included procurement and trading of vegetable oils, corn sweeteners, starches and grain products, along with consulting assignments. From 2001 to 2007, he was a Senior Economist with Doane Agricultural Services in St. Louis as the oilseed analyst. Nicholson also has nearly fifteen years of experience in the food and beverage industry. He has served as Senior Buyer at The Earthgrains Company, now part of Bimbo Bakeries USA, in St. Louis. From 1988 to 1997, he was the Senior Commodity Analyst in the Global Procurement and Trading Company at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta. While at Coca-Cola, he was involved in the creation of the first commodity risk management and governance policy framework for the company.

Following his graduation from The Danish Merchant Marine Academy as Master Marine and a few years at sea, Thue began his shore-based career in 2000 and has held various positions within the group in mainly Latin America and Asia. During his Time in South America he worked in the company’s Chilean country organization and later on as member of the Regional Reefer Management team covering Latin America from São Paulo. In September 2006 he was asked to start up the dedicated reefer desk in Asia covering the Greater China Area, Hong Kong, and Taiwan a position he held until the end of 2009. In January 2010 Mr. Barfod relocated to Hong Kong, where he is heading Maersk Line's Reefer Business Development efforts in a region covering Asia Pacific, The Middle East and Indian Ocean. In May 2015 Mr Barfod took up the position as Maersk Line’s Global director of the Fish and Seafood Cargo segment a position he still holds today.

Tor Eirik Homme is the CSO and director feed and nutrition at Grieg Seafood ASA. He holds a master’s degree in Nutrition and Breeding from the University of Agriculture (Aquaculture). He has a broad background in working with feed, including science, product development, marketing, and sales. He has been a key player at Grieg Seafood on their work with sustainability. Starting in 2010, he built the companies sustainable reporting and has carried the core responsibility regarding sustainability since. Today he is responsible for company activities regarding salmon breeding program, sustainability, and nutrition of feed at Grieg Seafood. He has served in Global Salmon Initiative (GSI), ASC Steering committee for Feed standard, GRI -task force for sector standard, Member in GBC for Marine trust, and representative in fish farmer association both in Norway and in FEAP.

Graduated from Agriculture French school, Vincent started working as a buyer for retailer Intermarché central buying office’. After 2 years in Paris, he moved to Shanghai to handle the group APAC food procurement for retail and processing in Europe, managing teams in Thailand, Vietnam, India and China. Vincent joined Diana Group, now Symrise, in 2011, as Thailand General Manager, valorizing canned Tuna by-products for Shrimp feed and Pet Food. In 2016, he joined the EMEA team, starting the business in Norway Salmon Feed. Vincent is now in charge of the Symrise Aqua Feed global marketing and strategy, focusing on the opportunities coming from the global aquaculture growth and challenges.