People in the News

Frederick Howard Schneider, Ph.D., and Fazal Raheman, M.D., joined LipoGenics Inc., the wholly owned R&D subsidiary of Bionutrics Inc. (BRNX). Schneider is president and will focus initially on rapid market introduction of the company’s patented compounds. Raheman is VP, clinical development.

PharmaPrint Inc. (PPRT) named former Aprogenex President Dr. Joel Bresser senior VP.

Anthony Joseph Crescenzi, operator of the Vita Ganics Natural Foods Co., a chain of FL and NJ health food stores and a leading practitioner of naturopathy, died in November at age 65.

Mary Mulry, formerly VP of research and operations for Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems, has reopened FoodWise, her technical consulting business for natural products, in Boulder, CO.

ABKIT Inc., makers of CamoCare and NatureWorks products, announced that Howard Brauner will assume the role of president of the company. Prior to joining ABKIT, Brauner was VP of Magnivision, a maker of reading glasses.

Jacob S. Pak has joined Coffee Bean International as its new VP of sales. Formerly, Pak was with Proctor & Gamble and Frito-Lay.

Helen Nichols Church, a pioneering nutritionist and editor of Bowes and Church’s Food Values of Portions Commonly Used, died in November at a Lakewood, NJ, nursing home at age 95.

Carrington Laboratories Inc. named Robert Schnitzius its CFO and treasurer. He formerly was corporate controller for Medeva America U.S., a subsidiary of London-based pharmaceutical maker Medeva Plc.

Novartis appointed Thomas Ebeling CEO of its worldwide nutrition business. He was formerly head of Novartis Nutrition Germany and Austria.