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Robyn Frisch, president and CEO, Rochem International Inc., was recognized as one of the “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award” by the Asian American Business Development Center, designed to highlight the success of Asian American entrepreneurs and corporate professionals for their distinguished achievements in the field of business. ... Sharrann Simmons joined Cognis Nutrition & Health as senior marketing manager, responsible for marketing strategy development and implementation for the entire Cognis portfolio of nutritional and food ingredients in North America. ... Embria Health Sciences appointed Greg Thornton as director of sales. ... Sun-Ho Frank Kim was named chief operating officer for GCI Nutrients-Korea. ... Grow Co. Inc. tapped Only The Best Inc. and its co-owner Cynthia Pileggi to represent the company. ... Nils-Michael Langenborg was selected to fill to the newly created position of vice president of marketing at Lundberg Family Farms. ... Performance Packaging of Nevada hired two new employees: Thomas Baffa, vice president of operations, and Jayne Lonergan, customer service representative. ... RQA Inc. announced Pamela Vaillancourt was hired as vice president, business development, for its Product Dynamics division. ... Dean Antczak was promoted to director of national sales at Wixon Inc. ... AMINO GmbH expanded its business development team to include expert biotechnologists Annett Klinzing and Stefan Ortleb, and project manager Dr.-Ing. Holger Fersterra. ... Bergstrom Nutrition restructured its management team, ousting its president, David Lakey, and vice president of sales, Grant Bergstrom; the company is searching for a new president and will revamp its sales structure. ... Attune Foods hired Eric Lauterbach as vice president of sales. ... Bioforce USA announced three new hires: Jodie Moore, marketing coordinator; Angela Rolon, sales coordinator; and Abby Smith, in-house sales representative, southern region. ... Herb UK appointed Gurusimran Khalsa as vice president of sales and marketing for its North American division.