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People in Brief

Cognis Nutrition & Health hiredScott Backman as market development manager for functional food and foodtechnology. Thomas L. Fine joined Valentine Enterprises Inc. as vicepresident of operations; he worked most recently as vice president ofmanufacturing/nutritional products for Herbalife International. DavidRimmler was promoted to group vice president of strategic business to overseethe new strategic business development division at Aceto Group. HealthSciences Group hired Jeffrey Klar as chief operating officer of its QualityBotanical Ingredients (QBI) division. Clare Hasler, founding director ofthe Functional Foods for Health Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago,was named founding executive director of the Robert Mondavi Institute forWine and Food Science at the University of California, Davis. PlanetDog announced two new hires; Megan Worcester is front of house manager andShari Duke is an accounting specialist. David Michael & Co. alsoannounced several new hires. At its Philadelphia office, the company hiredStefanie Katz as human resources specialist and Gerard Giuffrida as maintenancesupervisor. Eduardo Villagomez Menendez was hired as an account manager forDavid Michael de Mexico. Christiaan Kirk joined Flavors of North AmericaInc. as an applications technologist.