People in Brief 40612

People in Brief

BASF appointed Glen A. Templin asbusiness development manager for BASFs Life Science Intermediates business inNorth America. ... Michele A. Gargano joined Biothera asvice president of clinical development; the company promoted Myra L. Patchen,Ph.D., to executive vice president, pharmaceutical development, and hiredWilliam L. Gacki as chief financial officer (CFO). ... IZZEBeverage Co. announced John Bello, the founder andformer chief executive officer (CEO) of SoBe, joined IZZEs board ofdirectors. ... Maria Emmer- Aanes joined NaturesPath Foods as director of marketing. ... KelatronCorp. announced several new hires. Brent Hagen is thenew vice president of sales and customer service; Alexandra P.Wilder joined the company as director of qualityand research and development; and Teresa M. Collazo will manage the chemistry laboratory forMiller Laboratories, a division of Kelatron. ... ThresholdEnterprises Ltd. named Peter Hartman national salesmanager, responsible for managing the sales and distribution of Thresholdsproducts to its approximately 8,000 accounts nationwide. ... Dennis Berry joinedRochem International as vicepresident of business development. ... NPIInternational Corp. announced Liz Smith joined theNPIcenter team as sales manager. ... DYNATABS hiredMike Butler as national sales director. ... James Zhu is the new R&DFood/Flavor Technologist at Frutarom....Frontier Natural Products Co-op announcedpromotions for four of its top managers following a record year in sales andincome. Clint Landis is now Frontiers chief marketing officer; Ravin Donald,Ph.D., is now vice president of quality assurance and research anddevelopment;Tracy Tunwalls new title is vice president of human resources;and Bill Kooistra was named CFO. ... FONA Internationalannounced several new hires and promotions. Joining the company are Dianne Gill, sensory analyst, DeirdreKurland, product solutions manager - beverage, Scott Schiller, businessdevelopment manager - beverage, and Ketan Shah, senior flavor chemist. YogendraDesai was promoted to R&D manager - flavor development, Dana Sanza passedher five-year apprenticeship exam to become a junior flavor chemist, and RobertSobel, Ph.D., is now manager of technology and innovation. ...Aloecorp hired Peter Hafermann aspresident and CEO; he has more than 20 years of international and nationalmanagement experience in nutritional health and pharmaceuticals, most recentlyserving as president of BI Nutraceuticals.