Yang Ning, Professor and Head of Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory of Animal Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University

     Education
     1978-1982: Southwest Nationality College; major: Animal Science; B.Sc.
     1985-1990: Beijing Agricultural University; major: Animal Genetics and Breeding; Ph.D.

     Organization
     ·President (2016-2020), World’s Poultry Science Association
     ·Chief Scientist for the National System for Layer Production Technology, a part of the China Agriculture Reserarch System (CARS).
     ·Associate Editors of World’s Poultry Science Journal, Poultry Science, J. Integrated Agricultural Science, and Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology.

     Research
     ·Research in the field of Animal Genetics and Breeding, with focus on poultry genomics and genetics.
     ·Author or coauthor of 210+ papers in refereed journals and book chapters.
     ·Recipient of 4 National Awards for Scientific Advancements of China and other prizes.
     ·Consultant to government and poultry industry in China.

Mr. Wang Lianzeng, Reprsentative of the Thirteenth National People’s Congress, Vice President of China Animal Agriculture Association, and Executive President of National Poultry Industry Association, CAAA is Chairman of Huayu Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd. He is also a part-tine professor of Renmin University of China and a Senior Livestock Engineer.
     In the 1980s, Mr. Wang started his business career with only two partners, two rooms and two hundred head of hens. For 36 years, he devoted himself to layer breeder farming by focusing on the introduction of advanced scientific technology from home and abroad, first-rate equipment and talents. The advantages of costs, scale of business and technology make his company an industry leading player in China’s layer industry.
     With rapid growth of the company under his leadership, Mr. Wang Lianzeng also makes a point of contributing to society. Huayu Agricultural Science and Technology promotes science and technology in rural areas, helps those in distress and help those in peril with technology.
     Some of his deeds include road construction and well drilling in underdeveloped areas and earthquake relief work in quake-hit regions in China.
     Mr. Wang Lianzeng has been conferred titles and honors such as “the 4th Advanced Worker of China Animal Agriculture Industry”, “Special Contribution Award of Top 10 Leaders of Becoming Rich in China Rural Area”, “First Harvest Prize of China Agricuture and Fisheries”, “Person of the Year in China Layer Industry”, “Vice president and President of Hebei Branch of Agricultural Enterprises Development Promotion Committee, China Well-off Society Association”.

Justin Sherrard is Global Strategist Animal Protein in Rabobank’s Food & Agribusiness Research (FAR) group.
     Justin leads the bank’s global research, client engagement and profiling in the animal protein sector.
     His work is directed at challenging current thinking and advising companies on risks and opportunities from strategic issues on today’s and tomorrow’s CEO agendas.

John Bartelme is the Founder and Principal of Bartelme & Associates, a member of the Content Evolution global federation of companies.His consultancy specializes in strategic marketing and business planning for small to medium-sized businesses primarily in the food and poultry industries.
     He is CMO emeritus of Perdue Farms, one of the world’s largest poultry companies. Prior to Perdue, John gained considerable experience and expertise developing, marketing, and growing billion-dollar consumer brands for Holly Farms chicken, and Tyson chicken, along with such other nationally known brands as Butterball chicken, California avocados, and L’egg’s pantyhose.
     John has garnered several marketing and advertising accolades in his career…Clio’s, an Effie, Cannes Lion, Ace Metrix, Ad Week’s “Best of Year” and more. Additionally, he is a featured speaker at conferences and conventions around the world, including the 2015 China-U.S. Poultry Industry Summit in Beijing.
     He is a guest lecturer at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, from which he has his MBA. He also guest lectures at NC State University where he received his BS degree in Industrial Engineering. John is also a Leadership Coach for several UNC Business School programs and is a Certified Mentor and Marketing Chair for SCORE, America’s largest network of volunteers that has been helping entrepreneurs and small businesses for more than 50 years.
     John and his wife, Terry, enjoy gardening, food and wine, and international travel, having just returned from a month-long visit to China, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, and Qatar. They are also proud grandparents of four granddaughters.

Education:
     · 1984: Master of Science in Animal Science, Institut National Agronomique Paris, France
     · 1989: Visiting graduate student in quantitative genetics at Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA

     Experience:
     · From 1987 to 2000: Geneticist in “Institut de Selection Animale”
     · From 2000 to 2007: Director of R&D for Europe and Asia in Hubbard - ISA
     · From 2007 to 2017: Director of Global R&D in Hubbard
     · Since March 2017: Senior International Product Manager in Hubbard
    

Dr. Kaeppel’s professional experience and expertise cover the complete supply chain of food, from agricultural production to the final customer.
     Dr. Kaeppel holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Science. The major part of his professional career, he spent with McDonald’s. He participated in the development of supply chains in many new markets, and built up Quality Systems and Management in Europe, from the very beginning to a well-established and recognized organization.
     Dr. Kaeppel was accountable to the European Management for leadership and alignment of Quality Systems, Food Safety and Nutrition in Europe. This included setting and maintaining standards, specifications, and policies from raw materials to the finished products in the restaurants. Other important areas he covered were legal compliance, as well as handling known and emerging food issues. He is one of the founders of the McDonald’s Agricultural Assurance Programme (MAAP), which includes sustainable farm management practices, animal welfare and environmental requirements.
     He represented McDonald’s in industry associations, like the “Sustainable Agricultural Initiative” (SAI Platform), or the “International Forum for TSE and Food Safety” (TAFS), and was a member of GlobalGap’s Board for the Integrated Farm Assurance Standard.

Mr. Feng Bin, President and Chairman of Sundaily Ecological Foods Co., Ltd.is a Senior Economist with anMBA degree from CEIBS.
     In 2001, Mr. Feng Bin and his team proposed a “revolution” in the egg industry. He founded Sundaily Ecological Foods in Mianyang with other six people with only20,000 Yuan.
     As an entrepreneur with innovative thinking and perspective, Mr. Feng established the business model of“Brand+Standard+Scale”which has become an exemplification for the industry. His exploration of the path of “Internet+Modern Agricultur”made the conventional egg industry prosper through the innovation of products.
     In order to promote the long-term and orderly development of China’s layer industry, and improve the management of domestic automated layer farming,Mr. Feng initiated the Jinding Club in which about ten large-scale animal farming companies participated. Till now, the layer stock of all the Jinding Club members has reached more than twenty million head, making the club the most influential one of its kind in China.
     As a representative and leader of China modern egg industry, Sundaily Foods guarantees the safety of eggs through its own integrated industry chain, and sets up the international SDL standard system with its level higher than the entire industry.

Dr. Zhang is the China lead of Food Safety research. His research focuses on the core technology in advanced analytics, optimization and blockchain and their applications in key areas, especially in food safety, supply chain and logistics industry innovations. He has coinvented more than 5 U.S. patents and coauthored more than 10 research articles in leading international conferences and academic journals. He is a member of the editor board of Journal of Business & Management and serves as referees for many prestigious research journals. As a technical leader, he has also been responsible for the delivery of many innovation projects in close collaboration with IBM’s business partners and has won numerous IBM outstanding technical achievement awards.
     Dr. Zhang graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and received his Ph.D. Dual Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is a member of the engineering honor society - Tau Beta Pi.

Christophe Gottar is graduated from Reims Management School. He began his career in an hypermarket retail chain as business analyst and merchandising responsible for the fresh goods department. He then held several marketing positions within French leading companies in beef and poultry markets. In 1995, he joined Cryovac as project manager for Case Ready followed by the responsibility of sales development for South Europe. Later on, he became European Business Manager for fresh proteins. In 2004, he was appointed as Retail Director managing the European Retail Team, in charge of all contacts and projects with leading retail chains. In 2010, Christophe Gottar has taken the position of Strategic Marketing Director for Food solution Europe, in charge of understanding and translating current and future markets needs into business opportunities and developing new packaging solutions .
     Since March 2012 , within the new Sealed Air Food Care division, he is now leading the growth of our global poultry sector by developing Innovative packaging solutions and facilitating cross-fertilization across regions .

     He is living in Paris and have 4 daughters .
     Hobbies : fly-fishing , cooking for family and friends .

Qin Dechao, who was born in May 1971, is a member of Communist Party of China.
     1995-2000 Mr. Qin worked at the Consumer Goods Circulation Department of Ministry of Internal Trade successively as a member of administrative section, senior staff member and principal staff member;
     2000-2008 Mr. Qin worked at the Veterinary Bureau, taking positions ranging from principal staff member, associate investigator to deputy director and head of division;
     During 2006-2008, he studied at School of Public Administration of Beihang University and obtained his MPA there;
     From2008-2012, he was the director of the Office of Epidemic Prevention of Veterinary Bureau;
     He is now General Manager of Pulike Biological Engineering Co., Ltd.

Wang Linguo, Doctor of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at South China Agricultural University, has worked on Pulike’s technical service team since 2011.
     With strong academic background and solid professionalism, Dr. Wang participated in the research projects supported by the provincial Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and published many several academic articles.

Wang Hongning, doctoral student supervisor and professor of Sichuan University, is Dean of College of Life Science, Sichuan University. Some of her honors include the Outstanding Young Teacher Prize of Fok Ying-Tong Education Foundation of the Ministry of Education, Science and technology innovation award of Ho-Leung Ho-Lee Foundation, National candidates of Millions of Talent Projects, National Expert with Remarkable Contributions, Special Allowances of the State Council, and the National Advanced Scientific and Technical Worker.
     Professor Wang Hongning, a Post Scientist of the National Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System, focus on the research on animal bacterial resistance, and creation of new veterinary drugs. She brought forth the innovative theory that transforms the containing of bacterial diseases from drug prevention and control to biosecurity prevention and control, changing traditional ways that prevented and controlled layer’s bacterial diseases with drugs. Her research achievements have been widely applied in China’s large-scale pig and chicken farming companies, so as to guarantee the health of animals and the safety of products and create remarkable social and economic profits.
     Professor Wang Hongning won the Second Prize of National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology twice, and Provincial Prize for Progress in Science and Technology for five times. As the first author or corresponding author, she has published 117 SCI papers in JAC, AAC, Vaccine, and so on. As a chief editor, she had edited 3 works such as Diseases of Poultry Respiratory System. In 2017, she was nominated the validly candidate of Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Mr. Bi Yingzuo achieves considerable success in the research of industrialized key technology systems for high quality broilers and makes substantial contributions to the industrialization and promotion of animal husbandry science and technology. Under his leadership, The program—The Industry-University New Education Approach Adapts to Modern Agriculture won the first prize of teaching achievement of Guangdong Province and second prize of National Teaching Achievement respectively in 1996 and 1997. He has been a State Council Special Allowance Expert in 1992.

Christina is working on the improving of the existing equipment systems counting the challengers that poultry industry faces nowadays. Developing the guidelines of the company in North America, Europe and Asia.

Nedim üzey is a veterinarian graduated from Ankara University Veterinary Faculty in 1986. He has worked in several animal health companies in regulatory and technical roles since then. He works in Elanco since 2006 and present responsibility is Head of Regultory, Corporate Affairs and Market Access Manager for Elanco Turkish affiliate. His main focus is to facilitate the understanding of EU and Turkish laws between stakeholders like goverment, customers, veterinarians and food chain on salmonella control and antimicrobial resistance under One Health concept, to remove consumer concerns and trade barriers.

In 1992, he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in animal husbandry at Shenyang Agricultural University, and Master’s Degree in animal nutrition at Shenyang Agricultural University. In 2004, did his MBA at City University, USA. He once worked at Shenyang CP Livestock Group and Merial Animal Healthcare Corp(now part of Boehringer Ingelheim).
     From 2006 to 2016, he served as Vice President at Kemin Industries (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd.
     Since 2016 when he joined Nutreco, Mr. Yu has been working as General Manager at Trouw Nutrition China.
     With rich experience in animal husbandry, animal nutrition, scientific innovation and company management, Yu Fanglin leads his team in their efforts to realize application of scientific innovations to industry and provide products with higher values and full animal nutrition solutions for business partners, thus promoting the sustainable development of the industry while bringing more profits to business partners.

Education
     2006 to 2010 the University of Western Ontario Canada / Finance and Organization Behavior Study / Bachelor

     Working Experience
     Fujian Sunner Development Co., Ltd
     Assistant to President & KA Director (2013 – present)

     OSI (China) Holding
     Assistant to General Manager of SunOSI (2010-2013)

Gao Xiang is the Senior Market Analyst of Sublime China Information Group Co., Ltd., and head of White-Feather Broiler Market division in Sublime China Information. With three years of work on white-feather broiler market analysis and the information unit for chicken parts he set up, Mr. Gao is committed to research areas including grandparental, parental broilers and commercial stock, as well as chicken part products.
     Some of his works include Annual Report of Broiler Chick Market 2016-2017, Annual Report of Broiler Slaughtering Market2016-2017, Investigation Report of Shandong Broiler Market 2016, Haitong Securities Investigation Report of Shandong Broiler Market 2016, Investigation Report of Liaoning and Hebei Broiler Markets 2017, Data Processing Report of Tyson Foods 2016-2017, Quarterly Data Processing Report of Tyson Foods for 2018, etc.
     Mr. Gao participated research projects such as Haitong Securities Investigation and Survey about Shandong Broiler Market 2016, Zhongtai Securities Investigation about Shandong Broiler Market 2016, Liaoning and Hebei Broiler Markets Investigation and Survey, 2017, Dalian Commodity Exchange Investigation and Survey about Shandong Down-stream Product Market 2017, Dalian Commodity Exchange Broiler Index Project2017-2018 etc.

2002-2017 worked at Sam’s Club of Walmart China as Director of Fresh Products Procurement. Mr. Chen participated in the innovation and transformation of the business.
     2017-now Mr. Chen has been working as a Director of Fresh Products Procurement at Fresh Hema. He Helped build the Shenzhen branch store up from scratch.