Adam Ismail joined KD Pharma Group in March 2018 and is currently the Group's Chief Commercial Officer.  He manages the global sales, marketing, R&D and regulatory functions within KD.  Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s, from its founding in 2007 to over 200 member companies when he left in 2018. He has spent more than 25 years working in the omega-3 and nutrition industries, including collaborating with other industry organizations to overturn a ban on fish oil imports in Europe; the establishment of nutritional intake recommendations and health claims in China, Europe and other countries; and co-authoring multiple scientific publications.  Prior to KD Pharma, he worked for Cargill, in charge of commercializing their omega-3 food ingredient business, and at Health Strategy Consulting and Health Business Partners on investment banking and strategy consulting projects, where he started the first e-mail newsletter in the nutrition industry and helped advise companies on over 150 projects and transactions.

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.

Anne Mette is the Managing Director of European Fishmeal and Fish oil Producers (EFFOP), the international association of European fishmeal and fish oil producers. She is also the Managing 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.

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.

Carl-Emil Johannessen is currently a part of the Seafood team in the Investment Banking Division in Pareto Securities. He joined the company in 2015 as an equity analyst covering the seafood industry. Carl-Emil joined the seafood investment banking team in 2023. He has previously been involved in the salmon farming business both through a part-time job in Grieg Seafood and through the family business (Fossen AS) later sold to Lerøy Seafood Group. Carl-Emil holds an MSc in Economics and Business Administration with specialization in Finance from The Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), exchange semesters at University of Münster, in Germany and University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

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 El Golf, 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 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 seats in the Boards of IFFO and also in the Governing Body of MarinTrust.

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).

Gerard Bannenberg, PhD, is GOED’s Director of Technical Compliance and Outreach. He joined GOED’s staff in 2014 and has been active in providing technical and scientific support to GOED and its members. Dr. Bannenberg coordinates GOED’s Technical Committee and takes care of maintaining the GOED Monograph and associated Guidance Documents, as well as occurrence data collection of contaminants of relevance to GOED. His background is in molecular toxicology, with a B.Sc. in Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Postdoctoral research was carried out on the biochemistry and pharmacology of omega-3 fatty acid-derived lipid mediators in inflammation resolution (Brigham & Women’s Hospital/HMS, Boston, USA), and on the formation of nitric oxide and effects of airborne irritants and oxidants in the airways, as well as endogenous detoxification enzymes (Karolinska Institute). 

Business-driven individual with 30 years of work experience within the Financial and Fishmeal industries. The Financial industry experience includes leadership roles in Corporate & Investment Banking, Commercial Banking, Retail Banking, Wholesale Risk, and Asset Management at financial entities such as Citigroup, BBVA, among others. The Fishmeal industry experience includes leadership roles as a CFO and CEO at Pesquera Diamante. Finally, Board member experience includes roles at BBVA Asset Management, BBVA Securitization and Telefonica Factoring.

Jorge is the Global Sustainability Manager the Global Sustainability and Communications Director at Skretting. In this role, he works together with Skretting’s offices in the world to fulfil the purpose of “Feeding the Future” and the ambition of being the leading partner in driving the journey towards an even more sustainable aquaculture industry. Before joining Skretting’s global team in Norway in 2018, Jorge worked for three years as Communications Manager in Skretting Chile. He holds an MSc in International Marketing from King’s College London and a Certificate in Corporate Sustainability from New York University.

With nearly 30 years of experience in the fish oil industry, Jorge Garcia has been a key driver of its operational, commercial, and strategic advancements. He played a crucial role in developing the first commercial sourcing structures for the Omega-3 sector.

As the CEO and Founder of MAREX Global Sourcing, he leverages his expertise in industrial engineering, management, international business, and sustainability to maximize the value of marine ingredients. Committed to ensuring every resource reaches its optimal market, his approach prioritizes innovation and responsible sourcing, transforming industry by-products into high-value solutions through strategic partnerships while enhancing the benefits of EPA and DHA.

A published author and thought leader in Omega-3, marine sustainability, and the blue economy, Jorge envisions MAREX redefining the way limited wild biomass is utilized. Through innovation and collaboration, he is committed to creating a more sustainable and efficient future for marine sourcing.

Maggie joined IFFO in October 2011 as the China Manager and was then promoted to China Director in 2013. 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.

Dr. Martin Alm studied chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig. In 1998 he started his career at SARIA Bio-Industries, one of the leading rendering companies in Europe, responsible for “Research and Development” and “Regulatory Affairs” representing SARIA and Germany in different national and international interest groups and research committees.

Since 2009 Dr. Alm is director of “Dr. Alm Research and Consulting GmbH” and Technical Director of EFPRA, European Fat Processors and Renderers Association. Today he is also consultant member of the board of the German rendering association STN, member of the scientific advisory panel of the World Renderers Organisation (WRO) whose president he was from 2019 to 2021, and member of the research committee of FPRF, the US based “Fat and Protein Research Foundation”.

Mohammed Irshad is a Board Member of Dhofar Fisheries & Food Industries Company SAOG, a leading seafood producer in Oman. He is also the Managing Director of Nafis Group, bringing multisector leadership experience to the region. Irshad has played a central role in advancing sustainability in Oman’s fishmeal and fishoil sector, notably highlighting Dhofar Fisheries’ milestone as the first company in Oman to achieve MarinTrust certification, reinforcing the country’s growing global standing in responsible seafood production. 

Petter M. Johannessen joined IFFO in September 2018 as Director General. Johannessen was previously Global Business Director for Risk Management and Sourcing at Cargill Aqua Nutrition and before that Supply Chain Director and Global Sourcing and Purchasing lead at EWOS Group. He has more than 20 years of experience from executive positions within SCM and material sourcing as well as strategic management support and improvement project design for global industry companies.

Ragnar Nystøyl has been with Kontali for over two decades, serving as the Managing Director from 2007-2017 and as Head of Kontali’s analysis department the next two years, and Chief Analyst since 2021.  As a market and seafood analyst, Nystøyl’s focus has primarily been on farmed salmonids, but has also held a “aquaculture generalist” or “seafood generalist” role for the majority of this period. Nystøyl holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and export marketing from Trondheim Business School and the Madrid campus of Suffolk University, respectively.

Ray Hilborn is a Professor in the School of  Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington specializing in natural resource management and conservation.  He has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and 4 books. He has received the Volvo Environmental Prize, the American Fisheries Societies Award of Excellence, The Ecological Society of America’s Sustainability Science Award,  and the International Fisheries Science Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,  the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and the American Fisheries Society.

Rúni Weihe has 25 years of experience in the salmon sector spanning practical farming, research, and executive leadership. He has been Head of Feed at Havsbrún since 2014, part of Bakkafrost, after initially starting as R&D Manager in 2008. Rúni has Bachelor and Masters degrees in Fisheries and Aquaculture from The Arctic University in Tromsø and holds a PhD in Animal Nutrition from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He has held board roles with the Research Council of the Faroe Islands and the Faroese Aquaculture Research Station and currently serves on MaRiNAO’s program committee.