Global and Regional Leadership Team

Kemin Leadership Team

As an international company that thinks globally and acts locally, Kemin has advisory boards of advisors and leadership teams at the regional and worldwide level. With this composition of global and local insight, Kemin leadership provides strategic direction to support the company’s long-term growth. 

Kemin is comprised of 18 independently operated business units and ventures worldwide, each with its own president or general manager, leadership team, industry focus and regional customer segment. This structure helps each business unit act locally, strengthen its expertise in the industry and provide specialized solutions that truly meet customers’ needs. 

While each business unit operates independently, many of Kemin’s insights, best practices and breakthroughs are shared and applied across the company. This allows us to continually evolve, improve and strive toward a shared vision of transforming the quality of life. 

Kemin Worldwide Leadership Team 

• R.W. Nelson | Chairman of the Board 

• Mary Nelson | Corporate Vice President  

• Dr. Chris Nelson | President and CEO 

• Elizabeth “Libby” Nelson | Vice President and General Counsel 

• Kimberly Nelson | President, Kemin Nutrisurance 

• Pat Wood | Chief Financial Officer 

• Giuseppe Abrate | Worldwide Group President – Food and Human 

• G.S. Ramesh | Worldwide Group President – Animal Nutrition and Health  

• David Raveyre | Worldwide Group President 

• R. Kannan | Worldwide Vice President, Human Resources 

• Karen Li | Vice President, Worldwide Marketing 

• Dr. Zhilin Gan | President, Animal Nutrition and Health – China 

• Johan Opperman | President, Animal Nutrition and Health – Sub-Saharan Africa 

• Daryl Schraad | President, Animal Nutrition and Health –North America 

• João Gomes | President | Animal Nutrition & Health – South America 

• R. Sureshkumar | President, Animal Nutrition and Health – South Asia 

• Dr. Hai Meng Tan | President, Animal Nutrition and Health – APAC (Asia Pacific) 

• Dr. Stefaan Van Dyck | President, Animal Nutrition and Health – EMENA (Europe, the Middle East and North Africa) 

• Leo Xie-Lei | President – AquaScience™ 

• José Piccolotto | President, Human Nutrition and Health 

• Marc Scantlin | President, Food Technologies – North America 

• Michelle Lim | President, Food Technologies – Asia  

• Marsha Bro | President, Food Technologies – EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) 

• Bruno Palermo | General Manager, Food Technologies – Latin America 

• Lorenzo Cavallaro | General Manager, Crop Technologies 

• Valter Dompe | President, Kemin Textiles Auxiliaries  

• Malek Abdelqader | General Manager, Kemin Biologics 

Commitment to Servant Leadership

Across all regions, departments and job functions, Kemin is committed to being a company with a culture of servant leadership.

Kemin leadership demonstrates and teaches all employees the key principles of servant leadership: respect, appreciation, competence, empowerment, modeling pioneering, service, trust and vision. These values are the essence of the culture at Kemin. The values define how we treat our colleagues, customers, business partners, communities and suppliers. The values of servant leadership remain constant in an ever-changing business, shaping Kemin’s culture and guiding our success.