NEWS 82 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE August 2022 Canada-based BinSentry, which provides innovative solutions focused on increasing efficiency and sustainability in the animal feed supply chain, has named Ben Allen as the new CEO. BinSentry names Ben Allen as new CEO BinSentry Board of Directors announced and welcomed Ben Allen as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in one of the company's most promising moments of technology growth. Ben Allen will bring decades of experience in agriculture and technology and a long track record of scaling start-ups, negotiating key partnerships deals with Fortune 100 companies, and leading and retaining innovative and diverse talent teams across North America. Allen joins BinSentry after his successful run as Head of Global Market Development at Indigo Ag, an agtech start-up he helped grow from $300M in 2017 to $3B in 2021. Prior to this multi-billion achievement, Allen played a crucial role in growing Agri-Trend’s AgriData software in preparation for a transaction that resulted in Agri-Trend being acquired by Trimble in 2015. Allen takes on the new role of succeeding co-founder Randall Schwartzentruber, who will transition to a new function as Chief Product Officer (CPO) and will focus his passion on driving innovation while continuing to lead key efforts at BinSentry. Allen’s career is also marked by extensive expertise in hardware tech companies. In 2010, after earning his MBA, Allen joined Silicon Valley semiconductor global corporation, AMD, where he supported multiple multibillion-dollar global deals and became part of the transformation team responsible for restructuring and re-aligning costs. International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) invested $15.8 million in three of its innovation centers in Brazil, Colombia and Chile. IFF invests $15.8 million in new innovation centers International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), an industry leader in solutions for food, beverages, health, biosciences, and scent, announced that the company invested $15.8 million in three of its innovation centers in Latin America. The facilities are strategically located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bogota, Colombia and Santiago, Chile to serve the diverse local markets. The sites feature state-of-the-art research, application, sensory labs and pilot plants, and offer customers access to complete product-design capabilities. The innovation centers are designed to enhance customer experience, allowing customers to have deeper involvement in the development process, fostering collaboration across the company’s three business divisions - Nourish, Health & Biosciences and Scent - to deliver the exact solutions they are pursuing in a much shorter time. The new facilities will support product design and development from conceptualization to commercialization, serving the food and beverage, animal nutrition and health, home and personal care, nutritional supplements and bioenergy industries. For more than 60 years, IFF has maintained a significant presence and footprint in key Latin American markets. The three new facilities bring the total number of IFF innovation centers in Latin America to 12.
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