People in Brief 35031

People in Brief

Cardinal Nutrition hired Richard Lichota to manage salesefforts in the Eastern United States. Cardinal Nutrition will be exhibiting atSupplySide East, Booth #1401-1403. ... Corinne LoGiudice is the new salesrepresentative and customer service manager for Blue California Co.; sheworked formerly for CPB International. Blue California is exhibiting atSupplySide East, Booth #1113. ... Peter Zambetti joined Balchem Encapsulatesin the newly created position of national sales director for nutrients. BalchemEncapsulates is exhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth #1552. ... Kristin Grossjoined Chr. Hansen Inc. as sales manager for the Human Health &Nutrition business unit, and has the responsibility of managing the humanprobiotic business in North America. The company also announced the appointmentof Otis Curtis as director of marketing for its Savory Ingredients businessunit. Chr. Hansen is exhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth #1304. ... ZilaInc. appointed Lawrence J. Batina as chief financial officer (CFO) andsecretary; he served as CFO for Naturade Inc. for the past five years. Zila isthe parent company of Zila Nutraceuticals/Inter-Cal, which will beexhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth #1432-1434. ... Daniel E. Weber will retireas executive vice president of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT),effective Sept. 1; he has been with IFT since 1967. IFT is exhibiting atSupplySide East, Booth #1247. ... Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition hiredSander Krupski as its East Coast account manager, with responsibility fordeveloping the market for Clarinol CLA and Marinol omega-3 fish oils.Loders Croklaan is exhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth #1606. ... BioriginalFood & Science expanded its management team. Joe Vidal, current CFO andvice president of operations for Bioriginal corporate, will also serve as chiefoperating officer for Bioriginal, North America. The company hired Mike Federoffas vice president of operations for North America, Barry Skorobohach as qualitymanager, Randy Ellis as manager of crop production and Grant Whitmore as amember of the crop production team. Bioriginal is exhibiting at SupplySide East,Booth #1647. ... Jerry Lynch joined Jost Chemical as Northeasternregional sales manager. Jost is exhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth #1316. ... QualityBotanical Ingredients (QBI) hired Martha Reublin as vice president of salesfor the Western United States. QBI is exhibiting at SupplySide East, Booth#1106. ... Garden of Life Inc. announced two new hires. Leonid Ber is thedirector of research and education for the company's health food store salesdivision and Robert Lawrence, D.C., is the national sales manager for itsupcoming physician product line, Natural Physician. ... Lee Covert waspromoted to director of business development for Solae Co., the jointventure company formed in a merger of DuPont Protein Technologies andBunge Co. Covert will focus on developing the supplement market for Solae.... NOW Foods hired William Landry as marketing manager. ... IntegratedMarketing Group appointed Natalie Taylor to the position of public relationscoordinator. ... The Council for Responsible Nutrition's (CRN) board ofdirectors voted to officially name Annette Dickinson, Ph.D., as CRN president;she had been serving as acting president since the departure of John Cordaro.... Llori Valenzuela, R.D., joined MAK Wood as new product developmentmanager. ... Austin Chemical Co. Inc. announced Donald E. Butler, Ph.D.,joined the company in the new position of chief scientific officer. ... Flavorsof North American Inc. hired Yogendra Desai as the savory flavor developmentmanager for the Culinary Group and Bruno DuBois as director of strategic accountdevelopment. ... Scott Steil was named executive director of sales and marketingfor Humanetics Corp.. ... Herbally Yours added two members to itssales and marketing staff; Charles E. Wurzbacher was named marketing directorand Eric Brooker was selected as sales director. ... Jeffrey T. Nibler waspromoted to vice president and general manager of SPINS; he will reportto Tony Olson, president, while Paddy Spence, founder and chief executiveofficer (CEO), will relinquish his CEO title and assume the role of chairman,allowing him to pursue outside interests. ... Wild Oats Markets Inc.announced changes to its board of directors. Newly elected to the board areStacey Bell, vice president of medical research and education, Sears Labs; DavidGallitano, founder of Columbia National Inc.; and Mark Retzloff, CEO of Rudi'sOrganic Bakery. Mo Siegel, former CEO and chairman of Celestial Seasonings, andDavid Ferguson, former general partner of JP Morgan Partners, resigned from theboard. ... Bill Schmitz was promoted from vice president of sales and marketingto president of Main Street Ingredients; he succeeds founder David Clark,who will continue to serve as CEO and chairman of the board. ... Dr.Venessa's Formulas hired Teresa Vickery as sales manager. ... The U.S.Department of Agriculture appointed Eric Hentges, Ph.D., as director ofUSDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion; he will oversee development ofnutrition guidance in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices. ... Janesse Thaw Bruce joined New Age Publishing as CEO andpublisher of Body & Soul magazine. ... ChromaDex Inc. announced JimLassiter joined the company as director of consulting and regulatory services.... Rick Zaksas joined Rexall Sundown Inc. as vice president ofmarketing, sports nutrition. ... Sunrise Brand Management Specialists hiredMary Scott as Central sales manager, with responsibility for the Midwest andTexas markets. ... Tastetech Ltd. appointed Derek Pulford as technicalliaison manager. ... Tina Nelson, director of sales and marketing for theconsumer products division of Sunrich Food Group, was appointed presidentof the Soyfoods Association of North America. She will serve in theposition through March 2004. ... Charkit Chemical Corp. hired KelleyDeLeo as sales staff assistant and Kimberley Howland as customer servicerepresentative. ... Frontier Natural Products Co-op appointed Tony Bedardas CEO; he worked previously for the company as head of operations and interimCEO in 2000. Frontier's CEO, Steve Hughes, resigned last summer; Andy Pauley,president of the board, has been acting CEO since that time. ... NaturadeInc. appointed Stephen Kasprisin as CFO. ... Fortitech Europeappointed Per Gotfredsen as technical manager and Nicolas Touillon as directorof sales. ... Kevin Cobb joined Botanical Laboratories Inc. as directorof marketing; he worked most recently at Smucker Quality Beverages.