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As president, Ferranti takes on more direct leadership responsibility for the strategic priorities of the business, enabling Gisel to focus increased attention on Rich’s long-term direction and organizational excellence priorities. Ferranti also maintains his role as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the performance of the company’s various food-related businesses in more than 100 countries.

According to IRI, the US fresh dips category is estimated at $2.15 billion, excluding food service and some club stores. Hummus represents more than 37% of the fresh dips category. Sabra, which operates as a joint venture between PepsiCo and Strauss Group in North America, maintains an approximate 60% market share in the US and offers more than a dozen varieties of hummus and on-the-go offerings nationally.

Bushong is respected as a credible voice in the food industry in many areas, especially Industrial, Foodservice and Retail. Her primary focus will be to grow the relationships of JMH Premium national accounts in its industrial and institutional divisions. Her unique and diversified background and expertise will ensure that the Company will provide distinctive solutions to its customers' flavor product needs.

“Roberto brings extensive consumer-packaged goods industry experience where he has built, grown and transformed global businesses,” said Mignini. “He will offer a fresh perspective to the division that is home to many of our iconic brands. Roberto will play a critical role in delivering against our strategic priorities of stabilizing and then sustaining strong financial results for this important Campbell division.”

Graham joins Comax Flavors with more than 40 years of experience in the flavor and ingredient industry, holding management positions at H&R Florasynth (now Symrise), Frutarom and Prova.

Each year, the ADS Technical Service Award is given to an individual who has demonstrated dedicated service to the ADS technical programs. Nominations for this award are taken from the general ADS membership and then voted on by ADS’ Executive Technical Board, the group that oversees the Association’s technical activities. At the Technical Meeting, members share their expertise on a variety of industry-specific topics including packaging, food safety, emulsions and quality.

Sargento Foods Inc. announced that John Rodgers, Ph.D. has been promoted to vice president – research and development and Vijay Krishna has joined the Sargento team as vice president – quality and food safety systems.  

Nicole DeBloois is promoted to director of research and development. Nicole has been with JMH Premium for over 11 years in a wide range of expanding R&D roles and responsibilities. During that time, she has consistently demonstrated a skill for fostering internal and external relationships that have resulted in delivering exceptional product development results. Of Ms. DeBloois, Kevin Dulin, CEO of JMH Premium said: "Her technical expertise is well established and she has created a development team that works collaboratively and effectively in delivering custom product formulation and premium customer service."

Bjerrum has been with CP Kelco for the past 19 years where he has been in global and regional roles within several functions (operations, r&d, business management and sales). Since 2015 he has been part of the executive leadership team, reporting to the CEO.

Murray was most recently CEO of the allergy-friendly snack brand, free2b Foods, where he created and executed a new vision and strategic growth plan for the company. Previously, Murray led the plant-based brand, So Delicious Dairy Free, now part of Danone N.A., and spent 10 years with General Mills, successfully growing several iconic brands, including Betty Crocker, Nature Valley and LARABAR.