Aldo Bernasconi is the VP of Data Science for the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED). His responsibilities include coordinating the collection, analysis, and dissemination of information relevant to omega-3 markets, the development of GOED’s Clinical Study Database, and scientific research on the role of omega-3 fatty acids in health. He holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Utah.

Andrick Payen is a Vice President grains and oilseeds analyst in Rabobank’s RaboResearch Food and Agribusiness group. Over the last seven years Andrick has covered different regions in North America as well as different industries. More recently, Andrick has covered grain and oilseeds with focus on the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. His expertise expands along the supply chain to different sectors from rural to wholesale markets and international markets. Since joining Rabobank, Andrick has supported RaboResearch efforts in developing proprietary research and analytical tools that have translated into yearly publications of grains and oilseed ten-year outlooks for the US and Canada. Andrick graduated with a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. During his time at the University of Missouri, he worked as a research associate at the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). His focus was on policy and sugar trade between NAFTA countries, leading to presentations at top academic conferences. Prior to his work at FAPRI and the University of Missouri, Andrick was a risk analyst developing risk models for major banks in Mexico.

Anne Mette is the Executive Director of European Fishmeal and Fish oil Producers (EFFOP), the international association of European fishmeal and fish oil producers. She is also the Executive Director of Marine Ingredients Denmark representing the Danish fishmeal and fish oil industry.  Anne Mette has a demonstrated history of working in the food and fishery industry. In her past, Anne Mette has been in the Danish foreign service and has solid experience with public management, political communications, and international relations.  Anne Mette is board member of several European market and fishing organisations. She was member of the IFFO Board of Directors from 2014-2021, IFFO President for the period 2020-2021 and Vice President 2018-2019.

Maz Industrial is a Mexican company, which owns a sardine fleet of 18 vessels, and is dedicated to the fishing, production and commercialization of sardine and tuna fishmeal, oil, soluble and hydrolyzed, as well as frozen and canned sardine. It has a strategical location in the Mexican Pacific since it has two facilities: one in Mazatlan, Sinaloa and another in Guaymas, Sonora.

Maz Industrial is the main producer of fishmeal and has the most important and modern sardine fleet in Mexico; also, belongs to the most important fishing group in Mexico: Grupo Pinsa, which is one of the 250 most important Mexican companies and has 40 years in the fishmeal industry.

Dr Brett Glencross is the Technical Director of IFFO (The Marine Ingredients Organisation) having commenced this role in June 2021. Prior to this role he was the Professor of Nutrition at the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Over the past 25 years he has worked in various academic, institutional, and industrial roles across Australasia, the Middle East and Europe. Throughout his career he has worked closely with many aquaculture production (farming) and feed companies throughout each of these regions. His research achievements have delivered many industrial outcomes resulting in the development of new processes, products, and applications. For his achievements in this regard, Brett has received multiple awards and commendations from both Government and Industrial organisations. At an academic level, he was one of the former editors of the journal Aquaculture Nutrition from 2008 to 2016. He is also the current Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the International Symposium for Fish Nutrition and Feeding (ISFNF). He has also been a Director of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the World Aquaculture Society (2013 - 2016), as well as undertaking leadership roles at the CSIRO in Australia and the Institute of Aquaculture. Brett has Honours and Masters Degrees in Biochemistry from the University of Western Australia and a PhD in Animal Nutrition from the University of Queensland.

Damien Claire is the Group’s Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. Prior to joining Atlantic Sapphire, Mr. Claire was the President of Platina Seafood, Inc. Mr. Claire’s experience includes positions in several industries around the world. From 2009 to 2014, he served as Sales/Analyst for South Pacific Specialties in Miami. From 2004 to 2008 he also acted as Vice President of Business Development for Global Outsourcing in Chile. Damien earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from Lander University in South Carolina.

Dave Martin is Program Director at Sustainable Fisheries Partnership, where he leads SFP’s work on marine ingredients and engagement in multispecies fisheries, guides SFP's efforts to protect human rights and promote ethical treatment of workers in seafood, and is a member of the aquaculture team.  Dave has been involved in conservation efforts for more than 25 years, focusing on working with communities in Siberia, the Russian Far East, Oregon, and throughout the Pacific Rim to promote sustainability, civil society, habitat conservation and restoration, and wilderness and natural resource protection. He has also worked in the private sector as corporate director of sustainability for a large American seafood company.  Dave has MAs in both international policy studies and Russian translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA in political science and Russian studies from the University of Iowa.

Eduardo is one of the founders of IFFO when former IFOMA an FEO were merged, being copresident during its first year. He has then been a Board member almost all the time, including Vicepresidency in 2016-2017 and then President for the 2018-2019 period. Eduardo was the Sales & Marketing Director for the Chilean fishing companies El Golfo, and then Blumar, for more than 20 years until 2015. He has also been a Board member of several other local and international organizations around the world, including being the Executive Director of New World Currents, a five chilean salmon producing companies joint venture to sell in China, and Director and vice President of Exapesca, a Chilean fishoil producers joint venture that sold their products together. He also represented GSI, the Global Salmon Initiative, in the ASC Steering Committee that developed the new ASC Feed Standard. Currently he is vice president of IFFO and also seats in the Governing Body of MarinTrust.

Master in Agriculture and Finance. COO/CEO of Coop´s in Norway with responsibility of agricultural machinery and flowers. CEO of Egersund Fisk from 2001, later continued in a merger as CEO in Pelagia until today.

Enrico Bachis joined IFFO in 2009 as Business and Information Manager and was then promoted to Market Research Director in 2017. He is responsible for the market intelligence produced by IFFO also representing the industry within the working group on agri-commodities of OECD-FAO. Enrico graduated from Cagliari University in Sardinia with a Political Science degree before obtaining an MSc in Financial Economics and a PhD in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham (UK).

Gertjan held various positions in DSM before joining the Strategy and Acquisitions unit. In this role, he identified omega-3 as an opportunity for DSM to expand its presence in nutritional ingredients. He was in charge of the acquisitions of both Martek (algal oil) and Ocean Nutrition (fish oil), after which he became DSM’s first Vice President Nutritional Lipids. He was one of the initiators of Veramaris, before he moved on to other positions, including full responsibility of DSM’s portfolio of feed vitamins. Late 2022, Gertjan returned to the omega-3 space by stepping into the role of CEO of Veramaris. Over the last year, he guided this company from startup to being an established EPA/DHA algal oil supplier to the aquafeed, petfood and human nutrition industries.

Hanus Samró is the co-founder and co-owner of the digital platforms, Aquafacts.com and Fishfacts.com, which offers comprehensive data and business intelligence about the global fisheries and aquaculture industries.

The platforms are developed for decision makers, stakeholders, investors, service providers and key actors within the industries.

Hanus Samró is 35 years old, has a master in political science, and lives in the Faroe Islands.

Dr. Ian Vázquez-Rowe graduated in Biology in 2006 at the University of Texas at Arlington. He then continued his graduate studies in Environmental Engineering at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In October 2008 he initiated his research career at USC, where he obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering in July 2012. Currently, Dr. Vázquez-Rowe is a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He has participated in numerous research projects at an international, European, Spanish, Galician, Luxembourgish, and Peruvian level, as well as recent projects with UN Environment. Dr. Vázquez-Rowe has published 140 articles (h-index= 41 on Scopus) in international journals.

Jeff began his fisheries career with the State of Alaska’s Fisheries Management Agency. His range of experience includes managing the world’s largest wild capture salmon fishery in Bristol Bay to managing rationalized (quota) crab and groundfish fisheries statewide in both state and federal waters.

From 2011 to 2015, Jeff served as Director of the Commercial Fishery Division. The division manages all commercial, subsistence, and personal use fisheries within the jurisdiction of the State of Alaska and many in the Exclusive Economic Zone. In addition, this role involved state, federal, and international fishery policy, quota, and treaty work. Since 2015 Jeff has managed the Responsible Fishery Management certification program (RFM). The RFM program is a voluntary and internationally accredited third-party certification program for wild-capture fisheries and includes two standards, one for fisheries and one for chain of custody.

John Rodysill a Trade Unit Manager of Marine Ingredients for the Scoular Company. Graduated from the University of Nebraska and have worked for Scoular for the past 12 years. I previously worked in the grain commodities space and traded corn, wheat, and soybeans across the US for feed, export, and pet food demand. I currently oversee our sales in the US of fish meal and fish oil into feed, pet food, and aquaculture markets. Specializing in warehousing, quality assurance, and logistics, we provide a full service program for customers in North America looking for Marine ingredients.

Omega-3, Marine Sustainability & Circularity Advocate

Currently, as the CEO of MAREX Global Sourcing, he brings over 27 years of expertise in fish oil trade, operations, and supply chain management, leading the company with a vision for innovation and sustainable growth.

Others:

- BSc in Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Lima.

- Masters: Management (Tulane University), International Business (CENTRUM Católica), Sustainability & Circular Economy (EALDE School of Business).

- Published works on Omega-3 sustainability and the marine ingredients industry.

Libby Woodhatch has had a varied career in the seafood supply chain and standards development spanning over 20 years. Prior to taking on the role of Executive Chair of MarinTrust, she was Head of Advocacy at Seafish, where her remit included the development of the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) standard and Seafish’s wider programme in seafood ethics. Libby was CEO of the industry body Seafood Scotland for ten years, where she helped improve the value of return to the Scottish seafood industry. During this time she also sat on the MSC’s Stakeholder Council. Libby has just completed a 9 year term as Vice Chair of the charity the Fishermen’s Mission, which provides welfare and support to fishermen and their families. Libby holds a BSc (Hons) in Fisheries Science from the University of Plymouth and an MSc in Fisheries Development & Planning from the University of Hull.

Maggie Xu joined IFFO in October 2011 as the China Manager and was promoted in October 2013 to China Director. She was previously a Trade Commissioner responsible for fish, seafood, meat and processed food and beverage products at the Embassy of Canada to the P. R. China for ten years. Maggie has a B.A. degree in English language and completed a summer school jointly given by London School of Economics and Peking University on international finance.

Fishing Engineer, Doctorate in marine sciences, since 2018 Scientific Director of the Humboldt Institute of Marine and Aquaculture Research, university professor of acoustics and fisheries in universities of Peru and Chile, co-Chair of the Habitat Monitoring Working Group at the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization.  General Director of Fisheries Research and Director of Detection Technologies at the Peruvian Sea Research Institute (IMARPE, 1991-2007), Director of Fisheries Surveys at Tecnológica de Alimentos S.A. (TASA, 2007-2011), Senior Project Officer and National Coordinator at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP, 2011-2017) for the GEF Humboldt Current Large Marine Ecosystem Project. More than 100 papers in scientific journals as author and co-author.

Professor Michel J Kaiser BSc PhD DSc MAE FRSE

Michel Kaiser is Professor of Fisheries Conservation at the Lyell Centre, Heriot-Watt University and was the University’s Chief Scientist until 2022. Previously, he was the Science & Standards Director at the Marine Stewardship Council and was Professor of Marine Conservation at Bangor University for 20 years. He began his career as the research lead on the ecosystem effects of fishing for the Centre of Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science in 1991. His research focuses on the sustainable use of marine resources and minimization of impacts on the marine environment. He collaborates with and advises global seafood industries, retailers, eNGOs and Government agencies. He is a trustee of Fishing Into The Future, and Scottish Fisheries Museum and is a member of the BBC Rural Affairs Committee.

Petter M. Johannessen has been heading IFFO The Marine Ingredients Organisation since 2018. He is passionate about seeing the contribution of marine ingredients to global food production recognised, while supporting continuous improvement and responsible practices. IFFO actively engages in and initiates collaborative efforts, considering them a cornerstone of its operations. Johannessen is notably recognised as a founding member of the Global Roundtable on Marine Ingredients, alongside the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership. Prior to his current role, Johannessen held industry executive positions including Global Business Director for Risk Management and Sourcing at Cargil Aqua Nutrition, as well as serving as Supply Chain Director and Global Sourcing and Purchasing Lead at EWOS Group.