Aker BioMarine boosts its aquaculture team
Aker BioMarine has named a new sales VP for is fish feed ingredient business, QRILL Aqua, in Asia, Simon Seward.
Seward is a UK national, with more than 28 years of international sales and marketing experience across a number of business sectors with the last seven focused on the global nutrition and aquaculture markets, said the company, which develops krill-based ingredients for nutraceutical, aquaculture, and animal feed applications.
Previously, Seward worked with the Norwegian human nutrition group, SanaPharma, where he had several management roles.
In his time with SanaPharma, he helped develop new distribution partners in Asia and worked with country-specific sales and marketing plans, sales training, regulatory and R&D support, according to Aker BioMarine. That experience is anticipated to be valuable as the company expands its footprint in Asia, it said.
Seward also managed a UK-based marketing agency and is a member of the Institute of Directors & Chartered Institute of Marketing. He earned a master’s degree in marketing from Staffordshire University.