Sander Visch Email & Phone Number

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Netherlands

• As Product Team Lead, I am responsible for the success of Kontali’s shrimp products. This means ensuring that the product and product package is valuable and viable. My responsibilities as a Product Team Lead include.
• Have a clear overview and plan for which customer segments and paint points are most important fortheir product
• Leading the development of new concepts and ideas relating to their product / product packageincluding the launch of these
• Create a high performing team with high levels of trust and ensuring team members are motivatedand feel a sense of purpose in their efforts
• Engage in the progress of development and operations that the team manages and actively pursueimprovement areas
• Ensuring proactive communication and reaching out to other Product Team Leads when coordinationis needed or for possible synergies between teamsAchievements:

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

• As Lead Analyst Shrimp, I head a team of five people and am responsible for conducting in-depth market research in the shrimp industry. Additionally, my role is to develop the section on shrimp on our SAAS platform.
• Define product requirements and features based on customer feedback, market research, and business goals
• Leading cross-functional teams such as engineering, design, marketing, and sales to ensure successful product development and launch
• Conducting project consultancy, applied research, and market intelligence reports on aquaculture markets, trade, policy, and sustainability
• Facilitating business development by developing tenders for private-sector clients
• Gathering, analyzing and modelling data for aquaculture segments

The Hague

• Price, market and trade analyses of the global warm water shrimp sector
• Project consultancy: applied research and market intelligence reports in aquaculture markets, trade, policy and sustainability
• Develop multiple market intelligence reports on seafood products and regulations for Centre for the Promotion of Imports from developing countries (CBI)
• Business development: developing tenders for private sector clients.
• Data gathering, analysis and modelling for aquaculture segments
• Providing understandable and structured insight and analysis on relevant topics to our customers and stakeholders

The Randstad, Netherlands

• Seafood Trade Intelligence Portal has been developed as a social enterprise, aimed to increase the transparency in the seafood supply chain. In 2020 I succeeded in selling the company from the NGO Solidaridad towards.
• Controlling and overseeing all business operations, people and ventures
• Develop a clean cap table, with all the equity in the company past, present, and future accounted for in the acquisition process
• Develop and present future business potential
• Establishing company goals, aligned with the board and shareholder goals
• Guiding and maintaining the performance of the company by improving the efficiency Activities:

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

• Seafood Trade Intelligence Portal is a social enterprise, aimed to increase the transparency in the seafood supply chain. This through developing and providing intelligence products and support to actors within and.
• Working with our team, various partners and external resources to develop innovative new and exciting products supported by the use of clear strategy, plans and planning.
• Working on consultancy assignments for our members and partners
• Chair on the international jury of the Aquaculture Innovation Challenge
• Investigating new business opportunities in Europe and further abroad (Thailand, Malaysia)
• Contract management on running and new contracts

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

ShrimpTails is a must read magazine for everyone in the shrimp industry. We cover topics from production, to processing, to regulation and sustainability.

Kamperland

• Innovation and hatchery manager Cooperative Frymarine u.aFrymarine is a hatchery for marine flatfish. Two commercial companies initiated the development of Frymarine in 2013. They had the desire to produce plankton.
• The design, layout and construction of the complete hatchery building and its farming process
• Setting the requirements for the technical systems and supervising their assembly
• Developing and optimizing the culturing processes of algae, planktonic feed (copepods and rotifers) andfish larvae in a recirculation system
• Implementation and management of innovation projects
• Managing a total investment of 2 million euros over a period of three yearsActivities:

Kamperland

• Seafarm produces turbot in an animal friendly and sustainable way. Next to this it is one of Europe’s biggest clam fishing and processing company. From my former function I was promoted to manage the fish.
• Managing the complete fish farm and a team of 4 people
• Updating the food safety management system for shellfish according to ISO 22000 standards (HACCP)
• Establishing new food safety management systems for 8 shellfish species according to ISO 22000standards (HACCP)
• Developing and implemented a digital traceability system for shellfish and fish
• Implementing a global GAP and “Beter Leven 1 ster” management system

• Responsibilities:
• Implementation and guidance of innovative research projects.
• Converting scientific knowledge in practical and usable protocols to use within the company.
• Updating and renewing the food safety program (HACCP)Activities:
• Direct and frequent contact with NGOs, scientific institutions and other companies
• Monitoring the state-of-the-art for fishfarming and shellfish processing, and according to these findingssetting up new experiments and protocols.

Wageningen

In this function I assisted at practical colleges on fish ecology and physiology. Next to this I worked in a team to developed an distance learning course on different aquaculture systems and the management of them.

Research between the relation of behaviour and growth in sole (solea solea)http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0021393

Vietnam

Research on the effect of probiotics in spiny lobster rearing in open sea cages, in close cooperation with INVE

Yerseke

Research/ system development on growth inhibition factors in turbot RAS production systems

Kamperland

Applied research on the effect of size on the survival rate of young mussel spat in the Easternscheld (NL)

Msc, Aquaculture And Fisheries

Bsc., Watermanagment