Ingmar Middelbos Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Leading & building a global team of scientists & resources to drive the R&D function as part of the strategic ambitions of the Nutrition business line within what is now called Symrise Pet Food.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Integrating nutrition R&D platform activities across Symrise’s pet food-related business and setting up global scope team to support the future pet nutrition ambitions of the business line.

Greater St. Louis Area

(IsoNova was acquired by Symrise AG in November 2019)Accountable for IsoNova R&D activities in egg products, including new product development from concept through scale-up, product improvements via process improvements and customer requests, and concept development to demonstrate value of existing and new portfolio products. Customer support and problem solving via concept testing, bench-top evaluation, formulation exercises, and being the technical liaison between IsoNova and the customer.

Greater St. Louis Area

Accountable for sales of Hamlet Protein products into the pet food industry. Further responsibilities include: Development and strengthening of product value propositions as relevant to use in pet foods and adjacent markets; Coordination and management (internally and externally) of projects to support product value propositions and implementation into customer systems; Representation of Hamlet Protein at industry events, including speaking engagements.

Greater St. Louis Area

Execute product management for the Stratum probiotics portfolio geared towards the human dietary supplement and functional food industry. Develop and maintain relationships with the technology partner and provide global direction for regulatory, sales & marketing, and data development strategies. Drive achievement of P&L goals through technical direction and sales support globally. Provide direction for ingredient portfolio strategy for the pet food and pet supplement industry. Support global achievement of P&L goals by facilitating internal project completion and providing hands-on technical direction and support.

Greater St. Louis Area

Portfolio strategy development for bringing nutritional products as well as specialty ingredients to market in the pet food and pet supplement industry. Responsibilities include developing ingredient/technology partnerships, providing technical marketing & sales direction for existing and new products as well as P&L accountability for ingredient sales into the pet food industry.

Greater St. Louis Area

Developed formulations for new market-driven concepts and products for the equine and companion animal supplement industries (business-to-consumer) using novel, differentiated ingredients and technologies; filled and maintained a pipeline of new formulations and collaborated cross-departmentally (marketing, regulatory, operations, quality assurance) to ensure appropriate documentation and benchmarks were in place prior to products exiting development stages.Supported marketing with scientific rationale for new products and concepts by providing white paper style documents as well as short technical briefs for consumer education and presentations for sales force training.Managed research programs to support new and existing products with both in-house research and external research (universities, veterinary hospitals); managed research budget and review of proposals for scientific merit, potential to generate data for marketing needs, as well as review of potential risks and cost-benefit estimates.Developed in vivo screening models for novel product concepts and ingredients for both the livestock and companion animal industries with a focus on gut health and disease. Provided technical support for strategic evaluations of potential value-added ingredients (business-to-business) for the pet food ingredients and human supplement industries.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Developed competencies in designing and performing animal nutrition experiments to investigate the effects of nutritional factors on gut health, including formulation of experimental diets using commercial linear programming software.Laboratory skills include nutrient analysis in feed stuffs, in vitro fermentation techniques and associated analyses, microbial enumeration using plating techniques as well as quantitative real-time PCR, and assessment of microbial community ecology using DGGE and 454 sequencing data analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Animal Nutrition

Dissertation research focused on the evaluation of various fiber sources and their effects on gut health parameters and gut microbial.

Master'S Degree, Animal Nutrition

MS thesis demonstrating the equivalence of DL-methionine and DL-methionine hydroxy analog as sources of supplemental methionine in diets.

Master'S Degree, Animal/Livestock Husbandry And Production

Animal husbandry focus with a major thesis investigating the effects of broiler breeder nutrition on egg quality and embryonic development.