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Personnel

At German pet supplies retailer Michael Bodfeld, vice-president of sales & mar-
Das Futterhaus, Sebastian Janzen keting, left pet litter supplier JRS Petcare on 30
has assumed responsibility for September. The company says he was departing
central purchasing, while Sven to take up a new post with significant responsi-
Schumann now heads the shop- bility in a company in the confectionery sector.
fitting division. Janzen will thus This is a business with which he is familiar, having
oversee optimisation of the entire worked in it previously for 15 years.
purchasing process for the different departments of the franchise Elmar Schmid, managing director of JRS Petcare, is sorry that
company with the exception of merchandising. He was previously Bodfeld has decided to leave and has expressed his special thanks
in charge of purchasing for the German Bundesliga team Werder for the latter’s work in developing a strong marketing & sales team.
Bremen, having also worked as a buyer for Finnern. “We will continue to pursue the strategy adopted with the same
In his role as head of interior design and shopfitting, Schumann energy and will appoint a successor as soon as possible.”
will be responsible for further development of the store concept of
Das Futterhaus. He worked previously for Teppich Kibek in busi-
ness administration. The US pet retailer Petco has an-
nounced changes to its manage-
ment staff. The company said that
Olena Topilnytska (photo) has assumed the chief operating officer and pres-
position of chief commercial officer at Terra ident of services Mike Nuzzo will
Canis on 1 July. She succeeded company exit his position after more than
founder Birgitta Ornau and will be responsible seven years with the company.
for marketing, sales and finance. Ornau Chief pet care centre officer Justin Tichy has been named COO,
stepped down on 1 April but is staying on in and will take on additional responsibility for logistics, including the
an advisory capacity. oversight of the company’s distribution centres. Tichy will continue
Topilnytska has worked for Nestlé since 2000, most recently as to run Petco’s 1 400 pet care centres in the US.
insights & innovation director at Nestlé Purina Petcare Europe. She Chief merchandising officer Amy College will also take on de-
began her career there as a brand manager in the confectionery busi- mand planning in an expanded role, while senior vice-president of
ness of Nestlé Ukraine, moving to Nestlé Purina at the end of 2005. services Jason Heffelfinger has been promoted to chief services
officer. Chief digital and innovation officer Darren MacDonald will
take on an expanded role as chief customer officer. The US retailer
Mars Petcare has named Nefertiti Greene as has changed its leadership after reaching record revenues last
president of the business’s new division, Sci- year. In 2021, Petco saw an 18 per cent jump in net revenue com-
ence & Diagnostics. Reporting to Loic Mou- pared with 2020.
tault, president of Mars Petcare, and as a
member of the Petcare leadership team,
Greene will oversee the growing diagnostics The Irish pet food supplier Tonisity is growing its companion animal
business and lead science across Mars Pet- brand team with the addition of Mike Lane as head of sales (UK &
care, including the Waltham Petcare Science Institute. Ireland) and Gary Scobell as commercial manager (UK & Ireland).
Greene joins Mars Petcare from Johnson & Johnson (J&J) where Mike Lane brings over 25 years of experience from the UK pet in-
she served as head of enterprise strategy and chief of staff to the dustry from several different companies and across several pet
CEO. She brings almost 30 years of industry experience spanning categories. Scobell has been involved in the pet trade for around
general management, commercial operations, pre-clinical and 30 years. He is the former owner of two independent pet stores and
clinical research across both the pharmaceutical and medical was previously specialist brand sales manager for Arden Grange
technology sectors. and Mars Petcare.

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