Program day 2

Donatello Piras is a chairman, presenter and moderator with years of experience at home in the Netherlands and abroad. Donatello hosts over close to a hundred meetings a year as an emcee, moderator and host for companies, governments, NGOs and the education sector. He has attained broad based experience in leading a variety of special events and conferences where he specializes in interaction and engagement with speakers and public. Donatello’s energetic approach in the many roles he plays is characterized by professionalism and enthusiasm. Donatello presents in Dutch, as well as English, German and Italian.

Donatello is an all-round generalist with a multifaceted background as a communication consultant, journalist and moderator that allows him to expertly navigate a broad range of topics in depth. Some of these topics include: energy transition & climate, agricultural marketing & communications, finance, education, healthcare, tax & tax avoidance, advocacy and legal representation, sustainability, logistics, as well as export and retail practices.

Angela Pellegrino Missaglia is an independent consultant and has been involved in different projects in feed and food safety. She has 35 years of experience in quality control and quality assurance and different certification schemes. She has been involved in risk analysis, risk assessments, feed and food fraud and defence for different governments and organizations.

She is a trainer on quality standards for industry, labs, and regulators. She also supported the Brazilian on the “Intergovernmental Codex Task Force on Animal Feeding”, and “Codex Committee on Food Hygiene”. She is a member of the Brazilian Codex Working Group on Residues of Veterinary Drugs and the Working Group of Food Hygiene. Angela developed and instructed the training modules for the IFIF Capacity Development Pilot Project in Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana and developed the online training modules for the application of the FAO/IFIF Manual.

Angela is a Chemical Engineer and MSc in Food Engineering and has attended University of Campinas, University of São Paulo, Utrecht University, Texas AM University for different courses in the feed and food safety, lab systems as well as risk assessment.

Evelien van Donselaar joined Trouw Nutrition 10 years ago and is currently working as Global Programme Manager Feed Safety for the Selko Feed Additives department of the company. Selko offerings include research-proven feed additives that support the full chain, from raw material hygiene, throughout the feed milling process and supporting animal health to help animals reach their full production potential.

In her current position, Evelien comes across a lot of by-products which are being used on liquid feeding farms. The use of these by-products brings an abundance of opportunities but also some challenges on microbial threat. With her experience, she can look beyond the farmer, further into the food chain. This triggered her to create the Selko Revalet product line for preservation of by-products at the food and beverage production stage, reducing the microbial challenge right at the source, while preserving the nutritional value.

Prior to joining Selko Feed additives Evelien van Donselaar worked for innovative companies focusing on the production of alternative proteins with insects and the production of biological active milk with dairy cows.

With her background in animal health care and feed safety, a passion for upcycling by-products  she likes to think out of the box and in solutions to support our purpose of “Feeding the Future”.

Alexander Romme is Vice-President of EFFPA, the European Former Foodstuff Processors Association. On behalf of EFFPA he is member of the GMP+ International Expert Committee. In his role as Chairman of VIDO, the Dutch association for companies active in the former foodstuff industry, he co-led the project of submitting LCA datasets on processed former foodstuffs to the GFLI Database, which was completed in December 2021. Alexander is also Vice-Chairman of Bfan, the German association for companies active in the former foodstuff industry.

In business life, Alexander is currently CMMO (material management) at Feedvalid, which is a company that valorizes raw materials and processes former foodstuffs from the food industry into high-quality, innovative feed ingredients for the compound feed, pet food and aquaculture industries, agricultural trade and on-farm mixers. He holds several responsibilities, ranging from the sourcing & purchasing of all raw materials and processing agents, to the company’s CSR & quality policy. He works for FeedValid since April 2014 and has held various positions, including manager of the business unit “circular”, covering the production sites of FeedValid in the Netherlands and Germany. Before 2014 Alexander worked at various companies that were active in the sourcing and processing of wet by-products as well as former foodstuffs.

Alexander is a graduate in livestock farming at the HAS University of Applied Sciences and lives in the south of the Netherlands.

Evert van de Pest joined Kiwa in February 2022 after 25 years of working experience in Automotive, Logistics, Food and Feed Certification Businesses. The TIC (Testing, Inspection and Certification) business is his area of expertise, not only as a manager but also as an auditor, visiting companies worldwide for audits and inspections. Throughout the years, training of auditors and staff of (partner) certification bodies, sharing knowledge and participating in scheme and standard development, has been an important part of his work and passion.

 Evert has been a part of the GMP+ community from the start of GMP+ auditing by Certification Bodies in 2000, at first for the scope road transport and later also for other scopes within the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme.

In his current position, Evert supports Kiwa units and partner Certification Bodies globally with accreditation services, knowledge and competence, with the aim to provide for a harmonized approach and delivery of feed and food certification to companies in the agri-food chain worldwide.

Johan den Hartog has a degree in Agriculture Engineering (BSc) and Masters in Business Administration (MBA). He is experienced in policy making, project management regarding feed safety assurance, environmental issues, training, education, working conditions and scientific research related to animal nutrition. Since 2010, he is fully in charge with feed safety certification.

Johan den Hartog was Managing Director until July 2021. Since then, he is the Business Development Director of GMP+ International, an organisation with almost 70% global market share in the feed safety certification industry with almost 20,000 members. Mr. den Hartog was previously the Secretary General of the Dutch Product Board Animal Feed for 21 Years.

Nick Major graduated from Adams Harper University in 1985 with a BSc in Agricultural Technology and joined BOCM PAULS the same year.  Since then, Nick has had a number of roles with the Company in sales, general management and marketing across all species groups.  In July 2012, BOCM PAULS became part of ForFarmers which is now the largest animal feed company in Europe operating in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Poland and the UK. Nick has responsibility for Corporate Affairs across the company.  In this role, he leads on sustainability and policy development and represents the Company on a number of national and European industry organisations.  Nick is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.   

In addition to his roles within ForFarmers, Nick is a member of the Board and a former Chairman of AIC (Agricultural Industries Confederation) which is the UK agri-supply industry’s leading trade association and a Non-Executive Director of CIELivestock Limited, a livestock agri-tech innovation centre in the UK.  Nick is a Board Member and immediate past President of FEFAC (European Feed Manufacturers Federation) and Chair of GFLI (Global Feed LCA Institute)

• Career in especially the TIC (Testing Inspection Certification) business, at SGS laboratory, TLR laboratory, Peterson Control Union (inspection & certification), Bureau Veritas (inspection), Kiwa (certification);
• Area of work has especially been agri-commodities, feed and food;
• Reach: always active in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and the rest of the world;
• Also work experience in eastern Europe;
• Many times, roles like commercial and/or business development manager;
• As of September 1, commercial director at GMP+ International B.V.
• I enjoy working with a professional team at GMP+ International B.V.

Further I appreciate a good sense of humour while working with colleagues and relations.

Heinrich Katz is Managing Director and main shareholder of Hermetia Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, a German-based company rearing black soldier fly for animal feed and pet food markets mainly. Hermetia is also involved in R&D activities in the field of insect rearing and the production of derived products. Hermetia was one of the IPIFF Founding Members. Within the association, Heinrich holds the position of Treasurer since April 2015. He is also President of Katz Biotech AG, a German stock-based company rearing insects and mites for biological pest control and ecotoxicological tests.