The Mootral leadership team 
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Founding team
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Isabelle Botticelli
Co-Founder and interim CEO

Isabelle has over 30 years of experience in leading teams of multinational organisations across different functions (Innovation, Quality, End-to-End Supply Chain), as well as across industries (Unilever, Novartis, GSK). She is passionate about creating value, business transformation and people.

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Thomas Hafner
Founder

Thomas has more than three decades of experience as a serial life sciences entrepreneur, with a track record of fostering successful, market-leading businesses with first in class/best in class product propositions and multiple successful exits in consumer health, biotech and agritech.

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Chris Kantrowitz
Co-Founder & Head of North America

Chris is a seasoned serial entrepreneur who has been building businesses since the age of 14. He has a proven track record of successfully growing startups, and has experience across a host of business disciplines, from funding to policy.

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Irshaad Kathrada
Chief Financial Officer

Irshaad has a wealth of experience across strategic finance, investment banking, and startups. He has held positions at JPMorgan, and worked as an economic advisor to the South African Minister of Trade and Industry.

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Science leadership
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Dr. Bart Tas
VP - Head of Science

Bart has over 20 years of experience in animal nutrition science. He has worked at a number of prestigious research institutions, such as Wageningen University and Schothorst Feed Research, as well as various commercial organisations, such as ForFarmers.

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Dr. Tracy Nevitt
Head of Discovery

Holding a combined PhD in Genetics and Biochemistry, Tracy has 20+ years of experience in life science research. She has led a wide range of discovery projects and is the named inventor in 3 patents and author in 12 peer-reviewed publications and 2 book chapters.

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Dr. Daniel Neef
Head of Biology

Daniel earned a PhD in Biochemistry from Texas A&M University and has been working in scientific research for over 20 years. He has led drug discovery research programs in both academia and industry. He is the inventor of 8 patents and the author of 13 research publications.

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Dr. Saheed Salami
Head of Animal Science

Saheed holds a double PhD in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences from the University of Catania, Italy and the University College Cork, Ireland. He has over 10 years of experience in multidisciplinary research and technical expertise in animal nutrition and environmental science to improve the productivity and sustainability of animal protein systems.

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Dr. Gareth Evans
Head of Chemistry

Gareth holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry from Cardiff University and has been working in the biotech industry for over 16 years. He has led drug discovery programmes in human and animal health with a particular focus on natural compound analogues.

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Maja Zupan
VP - Head of Marketing and Communications

Maja is a brand, marketing and communications strategist with over two decades of experience in Europe and North America. She has worked with technology start-ups such as Zuora, Lookout and Teralytics to help them scale globally; as well as multinationals such as Salesforce, Unilever and Canon.

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Andrew Armstrong
Head of Sales, Europe

Andrew has 30 years of experience in the agricultural supply industry, having worked within the Animal Nutrition, Health and Feed Additive markets in the UK, Ireland, EU and globally. His multi-species knowledge enables him to forge lasting business partnerships.

Our board of directors
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Carin Beumer
Chair of the Board, Non-executive Director

Carin has 35+ years experience as an investment banker. She is a co-founder of life science businesses and a professional Chair/board member in various biotech companies, global aid organisations and leading educational institutions.

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Thomas Hafner
Founder

With over three decades of experience as a serial life sciences entrepreneur, Thomas has consistently built and led market-leading businesses in consumer health, biotech and agritech.

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Kartick Kumar
Member of the Board, Non-executive Director

Kartick is the Managing Director of Climate at King Philanthropies, a Bay Area Family Office, where he leads investment operations and manages a portfolio of high-performing ventures addressing the challenges of climate change.

Kartick has two decades of global investment and operations experience. Previously he held a range of senior roles within the World Bank Group.

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Alberto Turri
Member of the Board, Non-executive Director

Alberto is a Swiss chartered accountant and trustee and has 25+ years of experience as a specialist in international business consulting and management of international groups.

Our solution
Enterix™

Enterix™ is our natural feed supplement that significantly reduces methane emissions from cattle, and has been shown to improve animal health and increase milk yields.

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Our solution

Xaloo™, our range of complementary feed solutions, is formulated to support the gut health of poultry, newborn and weaned piglets, calves and rabbits. Utilising Mootral’s proprietary blend of phytogenics, it aids two critical body functions – nutrient absorption and immune response.

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