Kees Cools

Kees Cools became President of the IFU in October 2020. The President is the highest elected position within the IFU. In collaboration with the Board (Executive Committee), he determines the objectives and strategy of the Association and gives direction to the Executive Director. Kees has been a member of IFU's Executive Committee since 2005 enabling members to take advantage of his long standing expertise in the food and beverage market.

After his Business Administration study, Kees started his career in the international fruit juice business when innovative carton packaging came to the market and took juice into the portfolio of other industries such as dairies. He travelled the world and pioneered the juice industry and was part of a time during which world-wide juice consumption expanded to higher levels, while industrial juice professionalism was building up.

More recently as an Executive Director of the Döhler Group, Kees was responsible for the company's global processed Fruits & Vegetables business and member of the board which he still advises. The job requires close and frequent contact with key people in the global ‘’Juice‘’ world, involving raw material producers, juice beverage brand & private label bottlers and consumer & retail marketing specialists.

Demir Şarman

Demir Şarman has been the Vice-President of the IFU since October 2020. He is President of the Agribusiness, Energy and Industry Group at Anadolu Grubu. Following a financial audit and consultancy career at Arthur Andersen Turkey, Demir joined the Anadolu Group’s Beverage Division, Anadolu Efes in 1997. Between 1997 and 2009, he held several positions within that division including CFO of Efes International and Group Strategy & Business Development Director. At the beginning of 2010, Demir was appointed Managing Director & CEO of Anadolu Etap, established as a Joint Venture of Anadolu Group, Özgörkey Holding and Brazilian based Cutrale Group. Demir graduated from the Middle East Technical University with a BSc.Economics. He has an MBA degree from the University of Chicago and he is also a Certified Public Accountant. Demir is a board member of the Fruit Juice Association (Meyed), VP of TUSIAD’s Food & Agriculture Working Group and Chairman of the Turkey-Brazil Business Council within DEIK.

Klaus Heitlinger

Klaus Heitlinger was appointed as Treasurer of the IFU in January 2023. Klaus is a graduate engineer in agriculture. He started his career in 1991. For 14 years he was a subject specialist on fruit juice, wine, cattle and meat at the Association of Agricultural Trade and Industry, Stuttgart. He has been the Managing Director of the Association of the German Fruit Juice Industry, Bonn since October 2008.

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Dianne Nury

Ms. Dianne S. Nury serves as the Chief Executive Officer & President of Vie-Del, a family-owned winery, distillery and fruit juice processor in Fresno, California.

Slim Othmani

Slim Othmani is Chairman of the Board of Directors of NCA-Rouiba (now part of the Castel Group) in Algeria. He holds a degree in computer engineering from the University of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and an executive MBA from the Mediterranean School of Business in Tunis.

Slim is a member of the board and co-founder of several other companies as well as co-founder and vice-president of APAB (Algerian Drink Producers Association). He was decorated with the title of Chevalier de la legion d’honneur by the French government in 2018 for his commitment to improve the business environment in Algeria.

İpek İşbitiren

Ipek is the Secretary General of MEYED, the Turkish Fruit Juice Industry Association .......

Juliana Pires

Juliana has over 12 years' experience in the multinational Agribusiness company Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC). Today she occupies the position of Global Quality and Industry Director with solid experience in the Citrus Business. Throughout her career, she has acquired national and international experience with industry and quality operations, focusing on management of people, management system, process, projects and products for operational excellence, development of high-level teams and high profits. She also has experience in Innovation, Sustainability, Quality Control and Assurance, Research & Development and Customer Service.

Juliana is also a member of the CitrusBr Technical Committee. She holds a bachelor degree in Food Engineering by the “Universidade Federal Viçosa – MG/ Brazil” and a MBA in business from “Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV”.

Ziad Husseini

Ziad started his career in 2001 with Danone in France, then joined Procter & Gamble in Switzerland in 2003 where he built extensive experience in Global Strategic Procurement across all Business Units of P&G and covering Chemicals, Ingredients, Packaging, Marketing and Innovation. He also developed broader supply chain skills by spending several years managing long term investments plans, strategic planning and CAPEX for one of P&G’s fast growing business, global laundry pods. In 2019, Ziad joined Coca Cola HBC, moving to Vienna and then to Amsterdam as a Managing Director and board member of CCHBC’s Procurement company. He oversees all Packaging and Ingredients Procurement for the Group, including Coca Cola HBC juices business in Greece, Italy and Eastern Europe. In his capacity, Ziad is also deeply involved in achieving sustainability targets for the company.

Ziad joined the IFU Executive Committee in October 2023 as the Regional Representative for South East Europe.