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24 Wednesday [Edition datE] <strong>February</strong> 7 <strong>2018</strong><br />
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SELWYN RURAL LIFE<br />
SELWYN TIMES<br />
Milk processor welcomes new<br />
member of senior leadership team<br />
Synlait is adding a new member to its<br />
senior leadership team on April 1, when Dr<br />
Suzan Horst takes up the role of director of<br />
quality, regulatory and laboratory services.<br />
Managing director and CEO John Penno<br />
says Dr Horst is a leading authority in the<br />
global dairy industry and has much to offer<br />
Synlait.<br />
“Suzan’s executive experience with<br />
large multinational dairy companies<br />
complements the breadth of leadership and<br />
commercial capability we already have in<br />
our senior team,” Mr Penno says.<br />
“Our organisation will be in an even<br />
stronger position as a result of Suzan’s<br />
expertise, which is defined by her extensive<br />
oversight of food safety in infant formula<br />
and fresh consumer dairy products.<br />
“Suzan’s role is significant and carries<br />
considerable responsibility across our value<br />
chain,” he says.<br />
“Having the right food safety systems and<br />
risk management in place throughout the<br />
business is critical.<br />
“Not only do we repeatedly test all<br />
facilities, raw materials and finished<br />
products, but we also have a full quality<br />
assurance and traceability programme for<br />
everything we produce.”<br />
Synlait’s quality testing laboratory, which<br />
was commissioned in 2015 and consists of<br />
Dr Suzan Horst, Director<br />
of Quality, Regulatory and<br />
Laboratory Services<br />
chemistry and microbiology laboratories,<br />
carries out almost 200,000 tests a year.<br />
“Our on-site laboratory gives us<br />
greater control and visibility around our<br />
products, as well as the benefit of having<br />
substantial technical competence within<br />
the organisation,” Mr Penno says.<br />
Synlait also plays a leading role in<br />
providing market access for customers and<br />
securing regulatory approval for products,<br />
which means Dr Horst’s position will also<br />
have an international regulatory focus.<br />
“As we become a more diversified and<br />
balanced business, Suzan will ensure we<br />
continue to have the right capability in all<br />
of these areas.”<br />
“This underpins the integrity and<br />
confidence in food safety we provide to not<br />
just our customers, but their consumers as<br />
well.”<br />
Dr Horst says she feels “really honoured”<br />
to join the Synlait team.<br />
“The company has an impressive track<br />
record over the last decade and has exciting<br />
plans for the future.<br />
“It’s great that sustaining the high<br />
performance of quality, regulatory and<br />
laboratory services is defined by the senior<br />
team as a critical factor for the ongoing<br />
success of the company, especially as our<br />
portfolio becomes more diversified.<br />
“I look forward to supporting the<br />
company in building and maintaining solid<br />
quality systems that result in safe products<br />
and highly satisfied customers,” Dr Horst<br />
says.<br />
Dr Horst is currently director quality<br />
affairs, business group EMEA (Europe,<br />
the Middle East and Africa) for<br />
FrieslandCampina. She has held other<br />
senior roles since joining them in 2005,<br />
including director corporate QA, crisis and<br />
issue management and corporate quality<br />
assurance manager.<br />
Prior to joining FrieslandCampina, Dr<br />
Horst was global food safety competence<br />
manager for Nutreco B V and lectured<br />
agricultural economics and food safety<br />
before that.<br />
Dr Horst holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural<br />
Economics and a Bachelor of Science in<br />
Animal Husbandry from the Wageningen<br />
University and Research Centre in the<br />
Netherlands, part of which involved study<br />
at Massey University in New Zealand.<br />
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