Leo den Hartog, the research and development director at Nutreco, has drawn a blank for his respective position by retiring after 20 years with the company. Leo has served as a factotum for Nutreco by looking after various departments such as the Quality Affairs Director and Director of Corporate Sustainability.
Hartog always held tight hands over his customers, which helped him in successfully establishing new departments and making them the epicenter of Nutreco; quality affairs, intellectual property, global validation, the food research centers in Spain and the Netherlands, and the Ingredient Research Center, are a few ones to be named.
He was the one who laid the foundation of the idea of collaborating with the universities. Today Nutreco is working with almost 100 universities on various continents.
Leo is a hardcore, hardworking man; for the past 20 years, he has worked as a part-time professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has been teaching animal nutrition in a circular economy. He was yet continuing in this profile, though he will retire in a year or later.
Nutreco CEO Fulco van Lede has praised and applauded Leo and has wished flying colors for this new chapter that Leo will read and write in his majestic modality. Fulco van Lede said that
“I’m delighted that he will remain a supervisory board member of Nutreco Nederland and a member of the judging panel for the Nutreco Young Researcher’s Prize, the second of which will be held this year.”
