2017-11 EU Specialty Food Ingredients elects a strengthened Board

Mr Speleers, Executive Board Member for Sales and Marketing at Beneo, is re-appointed President. Mrs Marie-Laure Empinet (Executive Committee Member at Starch Europe) is appointed Vice-President and Mr François Scheffler (Vice President – Global Segment Management Human Nutrition, Nutrition & Health Division at BASF SE) is appointed Treasurer. The other administrators are:

For the College of companies

• Mr Geert Maesmans (Director Research, Development and Innovation at Cargill Texturizing Solutions)
• Mrs Angela Naef (Global Technology and Innovation Director for DuPont Nutrition & Health)
• Mr Thomas Beck (Senior Vice-President of Innovation at DSM Nutritional Products)
• Mr Stefaan Van Dyck (President Kemin Food Technologies – EMEA)

For the College of associations 

• Mr Miguel Prieto-Arranz (Sector Group Manager at CEFIC – European Chemical Industry Council)
• Ms Margreth Wegman ( Vice-President at EFEMA – European Food Emulsifiers Manufacturers Association)
• Mr Marco Mercenari (Vice-President Additives & Processing Aids Group at Federchimica AISPEC)
• Ms Frances Hunt-Wood, Secretary General at ISA, International Sweeteners Association
• Ms Mélanie Le Plaine-Mileur (Secretary General at Synpa, les ingrédients alimentaires de spécialité)