Greg Sunvold
With over 25 years of pet food industry experience and over 200 scientific publications, Dr. Greg Sunvold at Cool Springs International is responsible for implementing nutritional innovations in hundreds of pet food products. Additionally, Dr. Sunvold founded Microbiome Health, LLC, a company focused on applying innovative microbiome technologies into pet supplements.
Avrim Lazar
Avrim Lazar, Principle Consultant to the Global Salmon Initiative Avrim Lazar was President & CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada, from January 1, 2002 until April 1 2012.
He was chair of the Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products (ACPWP) to the United Nations.
Mr. Lazar has held senior policy positions in the government of Canada in the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Environment and Human Resource Development. During this period he was responsible for national policy in areas as diverse as climate change, biodiversity, child poverty, employment insurance and labor force training.
Mr. Lazar was Chair of the Committee of the Whole of the Second UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1995. He also chaired the National Business Association Roundtable and is the Past-President of the International Council of Forest and Paper Associations (ICFPA).
Mr. Lazar taught high school in Vancouver and Zambia from 1969 to 1973. Over the years, Mr. Lazar has given many courses in the graduate studies programs at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University.
Mr. Lazar holds degrees in science and education, including a B.Sc (1968) from McGill University, a B.Ed (1970) and a PhEd in Ed (1976) from the University of Ottawa
Morten Nordstad
Viggo Halseth
Viggo joined Nutreco in 1984. He has a longstanding career in Nutreco and had various positions in marketing, general and business unit management within Skretting ARC and Skretting. Viggo studied Animal Hubandry at Agriculture University and Marketing and Strategy Development at Norwegian Business School.
Chris Beattie
Chris Beattie leads MSD Animal Health’s Precision Aquaculture Team, working closely with colleagues in MSD’s Animal Health Venture Group (AHV). MSD Animal Health Ventures partners with companies and invests in bringing new solutions to address unmet customer needs, including advanced digital technologies.
Formerly Global Head of Aquaculture Business for MSD Animal Health, Chris has a background in Marine Biology and a Ph.D. in Fish Physiology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland where he worked in conjunction with the Institute of Marine Research, Norway. Prior to joining MSD Animal Health, Chris worked in several technical and commercial roles with Skretting in Europe and North America, latterly as General Manager of Skretting North America.
Tim Wallis
Ridgeway Biological’s Managing Director, Tim Wallis, is one of the worlds leading experts onbacterial pathogenesis having done a degree in Microbiology at the University of Leeds, and a PhD at the University of Birmingham studying Salmonella pathogenesis. He headed the Mammalian Enteric Pathogens research group at the Institute for Animal Health from 1992-2005 before leaving the Institute to oversee the expansion of Ridgeway Biologicals Ltd. His research focused on the virulence factors of Salmonella and E.coli that influence colonisation and pathogenesis in food producing animals of these important zoonotic pathogens. Such information is key to the understanding the infection and immunity of bacterial infections and vaccine development.
Carlos Alberto Kuada
Randolph Richards
Randolph is Professor of Clinical Pathology. He is a veterinarian with many years’ experience in the field of fish health. He is especially knowledgeable about drug interactions and therapeutic approaches to disease control.
