PARIS, France — January 16th 2017: Algaia continues to strengthen its organization with highly experienced industry talents. Dr Wolfram Kutschker, former Global Food Safety, Quality & Regulatory Director at Cargill, joins Algaia’s integration team today in order to bring the company to the expected HSQE level.

With decades of experience in the field of Quality Management at senior level both within Cargill and Cerestar, Dr Wolfram Kutschker will bring a lot of professionalism, experience and advices to Algaia at a crucial time of its deployment.

The acquisition of Cargill Alginate business was announced on January 10th. Dr Wolfram Kutschker will join the team as of January 16th. He will serve as Senior Advisor HSQE and will report directly to Algaia’s CEO.

“We are very thankful to Wolfram for having accepted to help us in this critical moment of Algaia’s rapid deployment. He is one of the most experienced industry talent I had the privilege to work with” commented Fabrice Bohin, Algaia’s CEO. “Wolfram will assist us in shaping the HSQE organisation and bring Algaia to a state-of-the-art level. Lannilis was part of Cargill organisation, a reference in HSQE, but we believe that room for improvement are always possible at the site” Fabrice added .