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NAMES IN THE NEWS

The U S P O U LT RY F O UN D AT I ON
awarded a $25,875 student recruiting
grant to the U NIV. O F GE OR GI A
(UGA). The grant was made possible
in part from an endowing Foundation
gift from the Leland Bagwell Education
& Innovation Fund, named in honor of
the founder of American Proteins. The
grant check was presented by J OH N
STARK E Y, president of USPOULTRY,
to DR. T O DD AP P L E GAT E ,
department head and professor at UGA.
Joining in the presentation were several
UGA students.

E RIE Z, Erie,
Pennsylvania,
announced that
T IM GL A N D has
been promoted to
the newly created
position of Vice
President and
General Manager
of Eriez USA. In
Tim Gland
addition, J A I SE N
K O H M U E N C H was
promoted to the newly created position
of Senior Director of Asia-Pacific
Operations and Strategy. In this new
role, Kohmuench will serve as part of the
company's corporate
executive team.
Atlanta-based C H E P
appointed J A KE
G I L E N E to the
role of senior vice
president, sales and
customer service,
CHEP USA.
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Taunton, Massachusetts-based
H A R PA K- U LMA welcomes TR AV IS
D OS C H as its new Southwest Regional
Sales Manager. Dosch is based in
Texas and his territory includes Texas,
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arkansas.
The company has also hired ALIC IA
S H OU L D E R S as the new Regional
Sales Manager based in Colorado. Her
territory will include Colorado, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and
South Dakota.  
Birmingham, Ohio-based B ETTC H ER
I N D U S T R I E S INC . announced it has
entered into a multi-year distribution
agreement with GR AS S ELLI S .P.A.
and GR A SS ELLI S S I . According to
the terms of the agreement, Bettcher
Industries becomes the official
distributor of Grasselli manual and
conveyorized membrane skinners and
derinders for the US market.
T OS H I H A R U K AGEYAMA ,
mechanical engineer with IS H IDA
Research and Development in Japan,
was awarded the 62nd Kyoto Inventors

Award for his invention: the ovalshaped 18-head multihead weigher.
Kageyama devised a method to rotate
the approach route of product to
hoppers by using vibration. As a result,
product feeding to areas that were
difficult to feed now became easier.
Los Angeles-based B EYOND MEAT ,
maker of the plant-based Beyond
Burger, announced the appointment
of K ATH Y N. WALLER and NED
S EGAL as its newest board members
and additions to the board's audit
committee. Waller currently serves as
chief financial officer and executive
vice president of TH E C OC A-C OLA
C OMPANY and Segal serves as
TWITTER 's chief financial officer.
MELIS S A B . LOR A , a longtime
executive with TAC O B ELL C OR P. ,
has been named to the board of
directors of Chicago-based C ONAGRA
B R ANDS INC . , effective Jan. 4. Lora
spent 31 years at Taco Bell, a subsidiary
of YUM! B R ANDS INC . until her
retirement earlier this year.
ALAN MAGEE is joining Atlantabased C H UR C H ' S C H IC K EN as its
new vice president of digital marketing
and technology. In this role, Magee will
lead all marketing efforts.

USPOULTRY; Eriez; Chep

The board of
directors of J B S
S.A., São Paulo, Brazil, unanimously
elected G I L BE RT O T OM A ZON I
to the role of Global CEO. Most
recently, Tomazoni served as the
company's chief operating officer.

He previously served as chairman of
PI L GR I M ' S P R IDE C OR P. and CEO
of J B S F OOD S, Brazil's chicken and
processed-food unit before assuming
the COO role.
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