Kemin Industries, a world ingredient producer, has appointed João Marcelo Gomes as president of Kemin Animal Vitamin and Well being – EMENA (Europe, Center East and North Africa) after the promotion of Dr. Stefaan Van Dyck to group president – animal vitamin and well being for Kemin Industries worldwide.
Gomes joined Kemin in 2019 as president of Kemin Animal Vitamin and Well being – South America. In 2023, he was named president of Kemin Meals Applied sciences – EMEA (Europe, Center East, Africa). A enterprise developer at coronary heart, Gomes has held varied government positions all through his almost three-decade profession, focusing on gross sales, advertising and marketing and enterprise and folks improvement in animal vitamin and well being corporations.
In his new function, Gomes succeeds Van Dyck, who spent the previous six years as head of the enterprise unit. Van Dyck now oversees all of Kemin’s animal vitamin and well being enterprise items around the globe. He replaces G.S. Ramesh, who is now centered on two of the corporate’s newer enterprise items, Kemin AquaScience and Kemin Biologics, which serve the aquaculture and animal vaccine industries, respectively.
“I’m keen to hitch the EMENA area and work collectively to proceed the staff’s success, execute Kemin’s progress technique, and take the enterprise to the subsequent stage,” Gomes mentioned. “Over the previous few years, Kemin has invested considerably within the EMENA area with new manufacturing websites, revolutionary applied sciences and native consultants supporting prospects. Within the upcoming years, we’ll proceed to focus our efforts on feed effectivity, feed safety, animal productiveness and price discount — all whereas investing in effectivity and progress towards web zero greenhouse fuel emissions.”
Gomes earned his veterinary diploma from Universidade Federal Rural of Rio De Janeiro.
