Tomra Food strengthens leadership team

Tomra Food, a global market leader in state-of-the-art sensor-based sorting and processing technologies for food and pet food, has made some staff changes in its processed food business. Two new senior managers have been appointed to fill the existing roles of head of global sales and head of service, and two new posts have been created for head of product management and head of people & organisation. All the new appointments became operational in February.
Karel Strubbe, head of global sales, has been promoted to this role from his previous post as sales director EMEA. Vera Boon, head of service, joins from her role as global services leader at Ingersoll Rand, a global market leader with a broad range of innovative and mission-critical air, fluid, energy, speciality vehicle, and medical technologies.
Kris De Smet, head of product management, has director-level product management experience in electronic security and video surveillance. He was product management leader EMEA Video at GE Security, a division of General Electric's GE Enterprise Solutions. Vanessa Sibenaler, head of people & organisation, moves from ITW, an American Fortune 200 company, where she was HR director of Additives International, a division that manufactures and supplies speciality and innovative chemicals for the automotive aftermarket.