Ali Habaj holds an M.B.A in Marketing from the University of Bristol, UK and a General Management Program for top executives from Harvard University, USA to add to his credentials. Having worked in Oman for over 23 years in management roles, he possesses rich experience of which he led Oman Flour Mills Co. SAOG and Atyab Investments from 2000 to 2017. During Habaj’s tenure in OFM, the company’s workforce grew from 220 to 1,500 employees.  It was under his leadership that Atyab Investments was created, an investment arm focused on value addition through downstream industries. This is evidenced by a notable achievement in revenue growth from 60 Mn USD in 2010 to 220 Mn USD in 2016.  Atyab Investments built Oman’s largest industrial bakery and successfully turned around the country’s major poultry farms- broiler and layer facilities. In addition to this, Atyab Investments is setting up new milling and Grain silo facilities in Industrial Port of Sohar. During the first half of this financial year the group’s profits grew by 47% compared to previous year and this robust growth will be seen in the second half as well. The company will continue with its 5-year vision of investing US $1 Billion in the food sector. He continues to be involved in the industry thru his role as Executive Board Member and Consultant. He is an active member of the Young President Organization (YPO) holding the office as an Education officer 2014-2015 & Chairman for 2015-2016.

Paloma Fernandes is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cereal Millers Association since 2007.The Cereal Millers is an association that represents the grain milling industry comprising of varied wheat, maize, and other cereals millers in Kenya with a reach over 35 million consumers in Kenya. Paloma holds a BA (Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Goa. She is a member of the steering committee of the Accelerated Value Crop Development (AVCD), a member of the National Food Safety coordinating Committee – NFSCC, Member of the Kenya Cereal Enhancement Programme – KCEP and a former director of the National Biosafety Authority – NBA. She is passionate about food safety and works with the CMA to provide safe and affordable food to the consumers.

Dr. Raj Hulasare is working as a Product Manager and Senior Scientist in TEMP-AIR based in Burnsville, MN. He brings with him more than 25 years’ experience in processing, handling, and preservation of stored products. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Agricultural Engineering from India with Masters and PHD in Biosystems Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Dr. Hulasare has conducted several joint research projects with multidisciplinary teams in Canada and the USA in the areas of grain quality preservation and post harvest storage technologies. He has actively worked with researchers at Oklahoma State, Purdue and Kansas State Universities on use of heat as an effective alternative to chemical fumigants for structural fumigation. Dr Raj has collaborated with Dr. Subi on heat treatment and its comparison with other fumigants for structural fumigation as a part of USDA project. He has successfully performed heat treatments in the milling industry of North America, Greece, India and Philippines.

Alexandra Petz made 2011 an Apprenticeship as a technician in the pharmaceutical company Novartis in Germany. During this period she worked with high-dose painkillers and hormones for cancer patients and took the possibility to change to the site in Johannesburg (Sa) for a certain time. In 2015 she made her Bachelor Degree in Food Science at University Weihenstephan, Munich. The Bachelor Thesis was written in a cooperation with Zotter Chocolate Manufacture (AT) about microbiological Processes in roasted cacao beans. It followed a Master Degree in Food Engineering in 2016. The Master Thesis was successfully created at company IO Consultants (De) about Meat Substitutes. For ´Brabender GmbH` (De) she is working since 2016 and part of the sales engineer team for the Food branche. Her responsibilities are the European and South East Asian Markets.  

Mr. Jürgen Willmann, Sales Director Food Division at Brabender GmbH & Co. KG, is the first contact for all customers in the food industry. He has a degree in Process Engineering from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Since more than 19 years he was working in several sectors of the material handling and food industry business. The last 5 years he was responsible for the Near, Middle East and Africa region as Sales Director dealing with food plants in the field of bakery, confectionery, mixing and cereal plants. Since October 2016 he took over the Sales Department for the Brabender Food Division.

I was graduated at Zhengzhou Grains and Cereals University of China in 1992. Principal studies is Food Science and Analysis. I worked on instant noodles more than 20 years, involving instant noodle technology research and production management, recipe study of flour and function of the additivities in noodle processing. I have working experience in Africa over 10years. As plant manager at Honeywell Flour Mills Plc.in Nigeria, in charge of fired instant noodle production, quality control, product development, and noodle equipment management. I am always studying the latest technology on the fried and air dried instant noodles field, and always pay close attention to noodles industry developing in the world.

Scott J. Montgomery is Director of the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI). He brings 30 years of cereal grain industry expertise to the leadership position. Scott received a bachelor’s degree in milling science and management from Kansas State University in 1980. He worked for Cargill Incorporated from 1980 to 2010 where he quickly moved into the wheat flour milling business in North America. This was followed by global operations responsibility for Cargill’s wheat and maize milling operations and ultimately citrus operations in every region of the world. He retired from Cargill in 2010 as Vice President, Global Procurement Leader. After retiring from Cargill, Scott joined the FFI staff as the Industry Liaison. He was named the FFI Director in 2011.

Dr. Ajay W Deoghare presently is working as the Business Director of Finland based Bios AgriCorp Ltd, a global technology company for Agriculture, Animal Health and Food sectors. Bios AgriCorp mission is Protecting Promoting and Encouraging Life, which is centered on innovation, research and development. Dr. Ajay is a competent technocrat in the agribusiness sector, and an innovator. He holds a degree in Veterinary science and a Masters Degree in Business Management. Prior to this he had worked with Roche and BASF.

Peter joined Henry Simon in 1980. After spending several years in the customer service department and the drawing office learning plant layout, he moved to the technical department to learn flow sheet and diagram design. He was involved in the start-up of flour milling plants around the world (China, Egypt, UK, Europe etc.), he then used his acquired technical skills to move into machine and plant sales. Peter worked for several years in Japan and South Korea with Henry Simon/Robinson Milling Systems and later Satake after the purchase of RMS. He also worked for more than 10 years in USA successfully selling many mills in US and Canada (working for CETEC, representing Golfetto and subsequently Ocrim). Returned to UK in 2004 as Satake Sales Manager for rice, flour and maize milling in EMEA region. More recently also responsible as General Manager for the colour sorting division, developing sales and service networks. Peter was also instrumental in aligning Satake and Alapala to relaunch Henry Simon.

Stéphane has 20 years of experience in the grain and milling industry. He has been the Export Director of Chopin Technologies for 10 years now and also a member of the Chopin Board. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in ENSMIC (French Milling School) together with a Master for International Management in Essec Business School Paris – Singapore.

Mr. Rogerio Silveira Cintra, graduated in Mechanical Engineering, MBA and Post-graduate in Business Management, graduated from CETREM Brazil in Technology of cereal milling, among other technical graduations, was a member of the technical staff of ABIMILHO (Brazilian Association of the Corn industries), professor of  Postgraduate in the Business Administration course at FGV University, having worked in large companies in the cereals milling sector like Cargill, Bunge, others ... and currently in the position of Business Manager of Sangati Berga S / A.

Peer Hansen is a Biochemist from University of Copenhagen. His career spans 30 years of dedication to science and creation of industrial applications based on frontier science. During the past 18 years he has been involved in application of the newest scientific discoveries and industrial solutions in the grain processing industry. Peer Hansen was the first to develop in-bin Moisture Monitoring and also in-bin Spoilage detection with CO2 measurements. Peer Hansen has also been involved in grain chilling technology and developed systems for very hot climates, where chilling may be needed the most. Possibly, Peer Hansen has become most known for his research into elimination of infestation in stored grain with Ozone. This research was conducted together with scientists from Aarhus University, Denmark. Peer Hansen’s new laboratory under the Crop-Protector organization in Copenhagen cooperates with scientist from around the world, and he encourages both scientists and grain processing industry to participate in new science for the improvement of food chain supply quality. Specially to eliminate the risk of Mycotoxins like aflatoxins etc.

Export Manager focused in analysing evaluating and operating new markets, managing Agents, Sales Channels and Key Customers, belonging to different cultures and Areas. Background in different sectors: agribusiness, metal and mechanical industry. Since 2017 in Mulmix, involved in deepening existing markets and discovering new business opportunities.

Lars Bergstrom is a 63 year old engineer who have worked in the paper and packaging industry during his whole professional career. During the last 15 years Lars Bergstrom mainly have worked directed to dry food packaging.

Jean-Pierre is member of the board of the French Association of Wheat Producers (AGPB). In 2007, he was elected as President of France Export Céréales, position that he held until June 2018. He is also member of the board and member of the Scientific Council of the Technical Institute for arable crops called "Arvalis" (technical institute run and financed by French farmers in charge of applied research on agriculture). He has a post graduate degree in agro-sciences from Institut National Agronomique de Paris. A member of the agro-producers´ Cooperative of Creully, he grows main crop productions (cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, flax for fiber, sugar beet) on 120 ha of land in Normandie (near Caen, Calvados).

Don Campbell is General Manager, Trading & Marketing for GrainCorp Ltd, Australia’s largest listed Agribusiness. He has 30 years of experience in Trading and Management roles in three major commodity groups (Grain, Cotton and Vegetable Oil) across regional and multinational platforms. He holds a Bachelor in Applied Science, majoring in Agricultural Marketing.

Indrek Aigro is a broker for grains since 2007. He works for Copenhagen Merchants which is one of the largest grain & oilseed brokers in Europe. Before CM, Indrek Aigro was working as a grain trader for Kesko Agro. He specializes on the Baltic Sea exports, a new origin for quality wheat. During the last decade he has witnessed a fast transformation of the Baltics market from importing countries into major exporters. In his presentation he will give us an insight to the real quality and supply from this part of the world.

Andrei is an experienced trader and broker, with a demonstrated history of results and achievements in grains, oilseeds and veg. oils trade, with a focus on Black Sea area. During his 20 years career he has worked on every stage of agribiz supply chain: from setting up and structuring trade finance -to- originating commodities from farmers - to- organising inland transport and port logistics - to chartering the vessels - to selling goods to the final consumers all over the world -to-setting up, together with partners, his own trading company and propelling it from scratch to one of the most reliable and efficient suppliers of grains in small vessels to Med destinations. He also participated in many Blockchain workshops and other events and have a deep knowledge and understanding of Distributed Ledger Technology and its applications (such as smart contracts, tokenization, stablecoins) for commodity trading and other sectors of real life. Currently he has a chance to combine these true passions, of agri-commodities’ trading and blockchain, in the form of my current dynamic start-up CEREALIA, Switzerland.

Jeff has been an active member of IAOM since 1994. Jeff has served as the Central District Chairperson and on the IAOM board of directors from 2006-2012, representing the Central District. He has been on the Employee Relations Committee since 2011. While serving as IAOM Vice President last year, he was also the President of the International Milling Education Foundation (IMEF), a philanthropic partner of IAOM that funds a variety of educational programs related to the grain milling industry. Jeff is a native of Wichita, Kansas. He earned a bachelor’s degree in milling science and a master’s degree in agribusiness at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas. Following graduation in 1994, he joined Cereal Food Processors, Inc., and has held positions of Head Miller, Milling Superintendent, Plant Manager, and Director of Plant Administration while working at the company’s facilities in Portland, Ore., Salt Lake City, Utah, Kansas City, KS, and Mission Woods, KS. In 1997, Jeff served as Milling Superintendent at Grain Millers, Inc. in St. Ansgar, Iowa for one year. Since the acquisition and formation of Grain Craft in 2014, he held the position of Director of Milling, until joining Miller Milling in June 2017.