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October 4 & 5 2023

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Speakers 2022

Tatiana Campos is an international and government affairs professional with almost 20 years of experience bridging Brazilian companies and institutions to foreign companies, institutions, governments, standards, and regulations. During her career, she supported more than 200 foreign and Brazilian companies in their internationalization projects, working for entities and governments from Brazil, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland. She has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from São Paulo’s University (USP) and a MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP). During university, she won a scholarship to attend a semester at Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, a research institute of the Free University of Berlin (FREIE). In 2022, along with a small group of other rising international leaders, she was invited by the United States Department of State to participate in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).

As the institutional relations director of CitrusBR, she currently represents the interests of the Brazilian orange juice industry, formed by the biggest exporters worldwide: Citrosuco, Cutrale, and Louis Dreyfus Company. Altogether, they represent 75% of the orange juice foreign trade globally, a key stakeholder in the Brazilian and international food sectors. At CitrusBR, among other institutional duties, Tatiana Campos is responsible for accompanying and monitoring new sustainable standards and potential trade barriers worldwide.

Finally, Tatiana Campos is the representative of South America on the Executive Committee of the International Fruit and Vegetable Juice Association – IFU. She is also part of several other forums on international trade, notably the International Agri-Food Network, the Instituto Pensar Agropecuária (IPA), the Fórum Paulista do Agronegócio, the BRICS AgriBusiness Working Group, the Women Inside Trade (WIT), the and Mulheres RelGov.

Founder of Zendegii group of companies: start-up incubator health/nutrition; Patents in flavour design/food tech; Innovation partner to global FMCG/retailers. Launch of innovations (FUUD) on the stock market (NASDAQ First North).

Founder of Enjoin Partners, a consultancy network focused on corporate and business unit strategy, break-through innovation, and top talent development.

Background: Senior partner, McKinsey & Company

Author: Fibre for Life, (July 2021 in the UK and USA)

After graduating in Toxicology and Philosophy of Biology at the University of Utrecht, Jan started off working in Marketing & Sales and Business Development at a Dutch Contract Research Organisation, moving on in 2006 to Innovation management and New Business Development at DSM, the multinational Food Ingredient company.

From 2009, Jan has been driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the Food Valley ecosystem in the Netherlands.
Nowadays he is the Managing Director at StartLife, the Startup Accelerator and Business Innovation Centre located at Wageningen campus.
StartLife comprises of a Startup incubator, Startup Accelerator program, Early Stage Pre-seed fund, Venture Building activities and a StartLife Invest ltd company.

Startlife builds and supports early-stage ventures in Food& Agtech, contributing to their initiation, modelling, strategy and growth.
StartLife is passionately involved in fostering business opportunities in the Agrifood domain, eager to develop a comprehensive Innovation infrastructure in Europe with its centre of gravity on Wageningen Campus and the surrounding Food Valley that drives relevant business with societal and economic impact.

Jan Meiling is also a co-founder and Director of F&A Next, a benchmark European Event platform that aims to promote innovation and impact in Agrifood. The platform inspires and connects startups and scaleups with the corporate and investor community.

Carlos Abboud

President, Quality Juice Foundation.

After finishing law school and practicing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Carlos moved to France where he became a trader in food raw materials. Gradually specializing in citrus products and seafood, he founded two companies in France (Eurotrade Juice and Fish) and later a third one in Uruguay (Newbell Trade), employing a total of 25 people as of today.

Since 2019 the Eurotrade companies belong to his sons and they are managed by them. Later, expanding into production, Carlos co-founded Trebol Pampa with two partners, which is a leading grower and exporter of fresh fruit in Argentina.

Finally, on top of his career(s) as a lawyer and as an entrepreneur, Carlos is currently Vice President of SGF, the fruit juice industry’s main self-control body and President of the Quality Juice Foundation.

Astrid Baeten

Program Manager, IDH

Astrid Baeten is Program Manager at IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative where she is coordinating the Sustainable Juice Covenant (SJC). SJC is an international initiative of leading players in the juice sector joining forces to improve the sustainability of juice supply chains across the globe. Astrid has a broad background within the sector of sustainable trade, having worked previously for FSI (the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative) and as sustainable sourcing manager at a large retailer.

Tsahi Berezovsky

CEO - Prodalim

Tsahi Berezovsky has been serving as the CEO of Prodalim Group for the past 9 years.

Prodalim specializes in processing various fruits, producing different ingredients and creating a wide range of applications through a vertically integrated platform and 9 factories around the world.

The Group provides a full range of natural solutions to the food and beverage industry, among them: fruit ingredients, multifruit mixes, bases for soft drinks, oils, aromas, flavors, and powders.

Tsahi received his law degree (LLB) from Tel Aviv University and MBA from IESE business school in Barcelona.

David Berryman

Chair of the Working Group on Sustainability, IFU

David began his career as a biologist in pharmaceutical research with the British Company ICI, (which later became AstraZeneca), before going into trading of pharmaceutical compounds.

In 1988 he founded the fruit juice company David Berryman Limited (DBL), which specialised in non-citrus juices and their derivatives. In 1997 he opened the first juice blending plant in UK. Within four years, the company was providing up tp 30% of the UK’s AJC in its own small fleet of road tankers. It was during this period that juice authenticity and traceability became paramount and it was on these two important principles that DBL saw its serious growth in the burgeoning juice market. But the company was already evolving into one where innovation became the key driver. By assembling a dedicated and well-trained team, DBL soon became an important provider of new ideas, formulations and, indeed, new fruit juices to the market.

However, it could easily have all ended abruptly in January 2015, when the factory was destroyed by fire, but the resilient team turned the disastrous event into an opportunity to continue to evolve. Within 12 months, the team had moved into new, bigger premises, where it was able to provide a new range of specialist services of compounding, canning and bottling. During this time, David also worked as a consultant on a number of juice projects, as far afield as Russia, China and Senegal.

In December 2020, the company was sold to the UK company THG, but David continues to be very active in the food business, remaining as a committee member of The British Fruit Juice Association, Chair of the IFU Working Group on Sustainability, a member of BBIA (Bio-Based and Biodegradable Industries Association), is trustee of a food recovery charity and he also runs a charity which enables children in China and UK to plant fruit trees.

Tatiana Campos

Institutional Relations Director, CitrusBR (BR)

Annick Carpentier

Director General, Alliance of Beverage Cartons and the Environment

Annick has extensive policy and strategy experience in the area of EU sustainability and environmental policy. Before taking up her duties as ACE Director General, she worked at Eurometaux, the European Federation of the Non-Ferrous Metals Industry, as Sustainability Director. Prior to that, she was Secretary General of the International Confederation of Inspection and Certification Organisations (CEOC) and Deputy Managing Director at CEPI (the Confederation of European Paper Industries).

Annick, a Belgian national, holds academic degrees in translation (German-English), in political sciences and a special degree in environmental management.

Kees Cools

Executive director, Doehler

Kees Cools has been a member of IFU`s executive committee since 2005. Currently, he is IFU`s Vice President and allows the members to take advantage of his century-long expertise in the food and beverage market.

Today as an executive director of the Döhler Group, Kees is responsible for the company`s business unit Fruits & Vegetables which requires close and frequent contact with key people in the global ‘’Juice‘’ world, involving raw material producers, Juice beverage bottlers and consumer & retail marketing specialists.

Thomas Engel

Technology Innovation Strategy Manager, John Deere (GER)

Dr. Thomas Engel studied Agricultural Sciences at the Technical University München-Weihenstephan. After his graduation 1991 he stayed there as assistant professor and did research around the use of electronics and software in agriculture with focus on precision agriculture.

1998 he joined Claas and introduced the first precision farming products in the German market as Product Manager Precision Farming.

In 2000, he joined John Deere, where he started as Engineering Manager for Agricultural Management Solutions. After that he led the Intelligent Solutions Group and did strongly grow the precision farming business in Europe. Since 2015 he is Manager Technology Innovation Strategy at the European Technology Innovation Center and is responsible to work with universities and partner companies to develop new innovative solutions and services.

Marcos Fava Neves

Professor - University of São Paulo

Marcos Fava Neves is an international expert on global food, agribusiness and bioenergy strategies and a part-time professor of planning and strategy at the School of Business (FEARP) of the University of São Paulo (USP) and FGV Business School, both in Brazil. International Visiting Professor at Purdue University (Indiana, since 2013), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina, since 2006) and University of Pretoria (South Africa, since 2020).

Graduated as an agronomic engineer from ESALQ/University of São Paulo – Piracicaba in 1991. Has specialized in strategic-planning processes for companies and food chains and works as a board member of both public and private organizations, being member of more than 10 international boards. Created Markestrat think-tank with other partners employing around 60 people and doing international projects, studies and research for more than 300 agri-food business organizations and a shareholder of 4 startups.

Has published more than 100 articles in international journals and has been author and editor of 70 books by 10 different publishers in 10 countries. Did more than 1400 lectures and presentations in 25 countries and is a “Fellow” of the IFAMA (International Food and Agribusiness Management Association), title received in Minneapolis – 2015. Very active in social media, his platforms at LinkedIn and Instagram have thousands of followers. Finally, in 2018 created the www.doutoragro.com knowledge platform.

Jane Foley

Senior FX Strategist/Head of FX Strategy, Rabobank

Jane has worked in the financial markets industry for over 25 years. For many years Jane has made regular appearances on both business and mainstream TV and radio channels including Bloomberg, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5, BBC World TV and radio, Sky news and Channel 4 news. She has also had many articles published by the financial press including the FT, Reuters, CITYAM and consumer magazines such as Shares.

Jane has both a BA and an MSc in Economics. Before joining Rabobank in 2010 Jane worked as an economist and a fund manager and then as a FX Strategist at Barclays Capital.

Ubbo Hempenius

Owner, H&S Group

Ubbo Hempenius is the owner of the H&S Group, a full-service logistic provider that has served the European juice industry for decades.

Ubbo has spent his entire career within H&S Group, transforming the organization from a traditional road transport company into an innovative logistics supply chain provider.

Today, the organization consists of a professional service company with around 1,500 tank container assets and a logistics company that organizes all kinds of transport modes throughout Europe.

The focus today is on innovation/digitization of the supply chain and a strong long-term partnership with customers.

Christian Holzleitner

Head of Unit, European Commission (DG CLIMA)

Christian Holzleitner is currently Head of Unit responsible for Land economy and Carbon removals at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action. Previously, he worked as Head of Unit for Finance for Innovation and Land Use and assistant to the Director-General for Climate Action covering all issues related to EU and international climate policy; and at the Directorate-General for Competition in the area of State aid for services of general economic interest in the postal, transport, and health sectors.

Before joining the European Commission, Christian worked as senior manager with KPMG Germany on international transfer pricing.

Christian is an economist and holds a PhD from the University of Linz (Austria).

José Jordão

AIJN President, Director Sumol+Compal

José Jordão is a board member of Sumol+Compal, SA (S+C). This is the holding company of Sumol+Compal Marcas which is the outcome of a merger between two of the most important Portuguese soft drinks companies. Both shared more than 50 years of existence.

From the outset of Sumol+Compal Marcas in 2009 through February 2017 José was responsible for strategy, marketing and innovation at the company’s four-member Executive Committee. His current role at the holding company is the strategic management of S+C.

Prior to the merger, at Compal he served in a variety of positions since he joined the company in 1992. Throughout the years, he was in charge of marketing, domestic and international sales.

José holds a degree in Economics and a Bachelor of Business Administration from ISE and ISCTE University of Lisbon.

Let us make sure that the introduction of the Report touches on the most important issue for the Fruit Juice industry, ie. the FJM Program which constitutes a critical effort of this industry in rebalancing the conversation and finding again an indispensable path of sustainable growth. In the now second year of this program we will start emphasizing the role of science in supporting the messages for key stakeholders.

Shai Joshua Lawit

Lead Crop Science, Pairwise (USA)

Dr. Shai Lawit is an agricultural biotechnology leader with 25+ years of research experience developing novel traits and technologies.

Shai heads product discovery at Pairwise, with his team guiding hundreds of trait projects across more than a dozen crops, including fruits, vegetables and row crops.

At the cutting edge of gene editing, his work at Pairwise pushes the boundaries of innovative crop precision breeding.

Ezaz-Nikpay Khosro

Managing Director, Zendegii Ltd, Enjoin Partners Ltd

Founder of Enjoin Partners, a consultancy network focused on corporate and business unit strategy, break-through innovation, and top talent development.

Background: Senior partner, McKinsey & Company

Author: Fibre for Life, (July 2021 in the UK and USA)

Professor Dr Rainer Lademann

Lademann & Associates GmbH

Professor Dr Rainer P Lademann, born in Bremen 1953, studied business economics at the University of Göttingen after being apprenticed to the Siemens AG.

At the University of Göttingen he also obtained a PhD for his dissertation on buyer power in the grocery retailing sector.

In 1986, he founded the first consulting company specialised in competition economics in accordance with German antitrust law; since 1998, this has extended even further, to EU cartel law. Professor Lademann has advised merger cases, cartel and damage claim cases, selective distribution systems and abuse of dominance cases.

He gave strategic advice in pre- or post-merger projects, as well as in distribution matters (such as in the automotive industry) and the realignment of dealer networks or company pricing strategies.

Mr Lademann has advised the EU Commission (DG Comp/BER 1400/2002), the economic committee (in connection with the sixth amendment of the German cartel law), the nutrition committee of the German parliament and – on more than one occasion – the German Monopoly Commission. He has also served as an expert in litigations.

Professor Lademann is also experienced in such sectors as automotives, energy,cement, lifts and escalators, railroad tracks, truck market, foodstuffs such as coffee,

flour, sweets and sugar, wholesaling and retailing with fast-moving consumer goods, paper, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), mail order services, transportation and traffic, infrastructure branches and insurance. Within his client base are leading companies such as AMG, Audi, AXA, Coty, Daimler, Deutsche Post, Dyckerhoff, Edeka, Fiat, HeidelbergCement, Henkel, Gothaer, HUK Coburg, Iveco, Lafarge, MAN, Markant Group, Metro Group, Migros, Otis, Rosenbauer, RTL II, Spar Austria, ThyssenKrupp, Tip (General Electric), Volkswagen, VNG-Ontras and Zentis.

As an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen he has published more than 90 articles and books, including seven monographs and numerous essays dealing with different topics of antitrust law, and strategic and competition issues in the retail sector.

Jan Meiling

Managing Director - StartLife

Patrick Peters

Market Segment Manager – Juice & Juice Drinks, Döhler Group

Patrick Peters works as Market Segment Manager responsible for Juice & Juice Drinks with Döhler, a global producer, marketer and provider of technology-based natural ingredients.

Patrick started his career in a commercial role in the chemical industry and focused on the beverage preservation segment for the Asian and American market since 2017. In his current responsibility at Döhler, he connects the global market segment teams through identifying the latest trends & product introductions in the global juice industry, forming and enabling strategies to capitalize on these.

Justine Pradels

Sustainability & Technical Affairs Manager, AIJN – European Fruit Juice Association.

Justine Pradels, AIJN’s Sustainability & Technical Affairs Manager is a Franco-American graduate in European Affairs who is passionate about European environmental politics. After obtaining her master’s degree from Sciences Po Lille (France), Justine moved to Brussels to work for the European Parliament. She became an expert in interinstitutional relations, she gained deep understanding of the European Parliament’s functioning and she developed robust knowledge of the European legislative cycle.

Justine’s AIJN journey began in 2021. She built the foundations for AIJN’s Sustainability Roadmap project by compiling, analysing, and assessing the impact of every single existing and upcoming EU-level sustainability legislation that has an influence on the fruit juice industry. Her pioneering work on sustainability in the juice sector, her coordinating role in the AIJN Sustainability Expert Group and her expertise on European legislation resulted in Justine becoming one of the fruit juice industry’s most knowledgable and trusted sustainability professionals. As the representative of a truly global value chain, Justine believes that the juice sector is in a unique position to address sustainability on a wider scale and make an impact. For this reason, she is committed to fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration within the industry and beyond.

On top of her sustainability work, Justine is also responsible technical affairs at AIJN. Focusing on the composition, quality and authenticity of fruit juices, it is Justine’s duty to maintain the 27 Reference Guidelines under the AIJN Code of Practice and to coordinate the AIJN Technical Committee’s scientific experts from among the AIJN membership.

Carrie Ruxton

Science Director, Fruit Juice Science Centre

Dr Carrie Ruxton is a dietitian and nutrition consultant who has been working with the fruit juice industry for more than 15 years. In 2020, she was instrumental in creating the Fruit Juice Science Centre which has the goal of communicating science and evidence about the role of fruit juices in the diet to consumers and key opinion leaders. Dr Ruxton also publishes scientific articles, appears in print and broadcast media regularly, and contributes her expertise to projects across the wider food industry, including for dietary supplements, tea, eggs, dairy foods, functional ingredients, and healthy snacks.

Martin Sonntag

Head of Global BU Cluster Plant Based Nutrition, Döhler Group.

Martin is a senior business leader with 31 years industry experience in large global B2B ingredient companies serving customers in Food, Beverage, Personal Care and Pharma markets. Currently board member of the Doehler Group SE, leading Doehler’s Plant Based Nutrition division.

Howard Telford

Head of soft drinks research - Euromonitor International

Howard Telford is the Head of Soft Drinks research at Euromonitor International, a world leader in strategic research solutions and business intelligence. In his role on Euromonitor’s syndicated research team he provides insights on consumer trends and market performance in the beverages industry across 100 markets.

Howard’s insights have been cited in a variety of national programs and publications including CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Fortune magazine. Howard has been with Euromonitor International since 2010.

Gilles Tisserand

Vice President Climate & Biodiversity, Tetra Pak

As Vice President of Climate and Biodiversity, Gilles leads a multicultural and multidisciplinary team that provides actions and solutions to meet the company’s net-zero trajectory, including the reduction of carbon emissions, the development and roll-out of a sustainable product portfolio, the responsible sourcing of materials and the restoration of biodiversity.

After starting his career at Business France, he joined L’Oréal as International Marketing Manager before becoming part of the Tetra Pak team in 2012.

At Tetra Pak, Gilles was working in different marketing, sales, business development and sustainability positions, before being appointed Vice President Climate and Biodiversity in 2021.

A French national, Gilles holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, a Masters in Asian studies / Geopolitics & International Affairs and a Masters in International Management and Strategy.

Joachim Tretzel

SGF President, Döhler Group

Chemist, Research and Development at Döhler GmbH since 1990

Born 12^th, September 1951. Married, two children.

Studies of chemistry and medicine at University of Würzburg. 1980 – 1990 manager in the F+E-Management, Technical Marketing and Production for AKZO Fibers & POLYMERS in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as General Management of the Enzyme Division of RÖHM, Darmstadt.

Bruno Van Gompel

Managing Director, VGV (BEL)

Bruno has a deep, end-to-end understanding of what it takes to develop, produce and distribute consumer products. He combines this with a passion for sustainability and circularity. He holds a Master of Science in Chemistry and Food Industry and started his professional career as production manager at BP Chemicals, Union Carbide and Dow Chemicals.

In 1993 he joined Coca-Cola, where, over more than 27 years, he acquired practical and strategic knowledge about product development, scientific and regulatory affairs, operations, supply chain and marketing. He worked across multiple geographies in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Until recently he was VP Technical, Innovation and Supply Chain for Western Europe and responsible for the Sustainable Packaging Office for the Coca-Cola in Western Europe. His experience in packaging and supply chain combined with his ability to develop and implement an effective, integrate sustainability strategy resulted in defining, meeting and even exceeding many bold, external commitments. Bruno has many years of experience as board member of several European Associations including PETCORE (PET value chain), EPBP (Plastic Bottle Platform) and AIJN (Fruit Juices).

Currently Bruno is Managing Director of VGV Management Services assisting companies and industry associations to establish and reach their sustainability and innovation goals.

Andreas Waelchli

Global Consumer Products Analyst Lead, EY

Andreas Waelchli is global Consumer analyst team lead at EY, covering Consumer Goods and Retail markets with his team to identify current trends and issues and provide value-added market and competitive analysis for EY’s practitioners and their clients. He is an integral part of the team producing the EY Future Consumer Index, a regular survey that tracks changing consumer sentiment and behavior globally and gives EY a unique perspective on how consumers are reacting to the ongoing disruptions.

Andreas is based in Switzerland and has been with EY for almost 15 years. He has consumer industry experience from working in various roles up to general management in a family-owned photo finishing company.

Tom Wiegmans

Busness Unit Manager, Tradin Organic (NL)

Tom Wiegmans is the Business Unit Manager Fruit for Tradin Organic, the global front runner in organic certified food ingredients. In his role at Tradin’s Fruit & Veg Commercial Desk, Tom manages a wide organic certified product portfolio ranging from Citrus to stone fruit and soft fruits. Together with a commercial and logistics team in Europe and the United States Tradin Organic has been growing in the Fruit and vegetables business for the last 20 years.

He completed his education at Wageningen University (international agricultural trade) and has been in the organic industry for over 14 years now. Since 2009, he has been working with fruits & vegetables and is the go-to specialist at Tradin for organic citrus and tropicals.

Tom is married, has 3 children and lives in the fruit basket region of the Netherlands called “de Betuwe”.

Roman Zuzok

Vice President Sales & Corporate Development, TB Fruit

Roman Zuzok studied chemistry in Germany, France, Poland and holds a PhD from Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart.

He started his professional carrier as Technical Brand Manager at Procter&Gamble in Germany.

As consultant he contributed to projects in Germany, France and UK for companies as Bayer AG, Michelin France and Mondi Packaging UK.

In the past 15 years Roman worked for the juice industry in Poland and Ukraine for local subsidiaries of German/Austrian/Ukrainian parent companies including Bauer Fruchtsaft, Rhönsprudel, Rauch and TB Fruit.

Agenda 2023

To be announced

Attendees

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