People In the News
Published: Friday, December 01, 2000
Frontier Natural Products
Co-op named Tim Holmstrom chief information officer.
Bastyr University’s board of trustees has appointed Joseph E. Pizzorno president emeritus and senior advisor to the president.
Alex Fink joined Kemin Foods as product manager for the company’s Fortium antioxidant.
Draco Natural Products has appointed Darrin Duber-Smith director of marketing.
Endangered Species Chocolate Co. hired Robert Wagg as North American sales manager.
Gum Tech Intl. appointed Kenneth R. Waters vice chairman of the board.
Cole & Weber announced the addition of Ged Buffee as managing director. He will lead the company’s Portland, Ore., office.
Volker Wypyszyk has resigned as Hauser’s CEO to become the company’s senior executive VP. Hauser named Kenneth C. Cleveland president and CEO.
Herbalife Intl. appointed Thomas M. Ramirez as senior VP of global marketing.
Tree of Life appointed Cheryl Bottger as corporate VP of sales-natural.
Sharp Corp. has named George K. Burke Jr. president and CEO.
Organic Trade Association Executive Director Katherine DiMatteo has been appointed to the Aquatic Animal Task Force.
Natrol hired Mary Hasrouni as VP and GM of the company’s Essentially Pure Ingredients division.
Sabinsa Corp. promoted Todd Norton to president and COO.
The Natural Marketing Institute has hired Jan Nash as marketing research manager, J.D. Bodine
as strategic product director and Pamela Smith as marketing manager.
Ronald C. Kesselman has been appointed as chairman of Gardenburger’s board of directors.
Unilever appointed Yves Couette as CEO of Ben
& Jerry’s.
Beverly Allewelt has joined Natural Business
Communications as account manager and will focus on the Health Living area. Allewelt is founder of Blondie’s Naturals, a Denver-based brokerage.