David Burch is a veterinarian with over 30 years experience in practice, industry and consultancy. He is a director of his own consultancy company Octagon Services Ltd and was the past President of the UK’s Pig Veterinary Society.
John Gadd, after training in Scotland 50 years ago, worked as stockman on several pig farms and managed several more before joining a large agricultural chemists as Pig Product Manager. He was then Technical Director of a pig feed concentrate firm and also helped run their pig farm, then the largest in Britain.
Steven McOrist has taught microbiology, enteric diseases and pig medicine at several locations around the world and has formed full-time roles and consultancies with several Asian and American pig farming groups group. He now works at the new veterinary school at the University of Nottingham in England.
Vincent ter Beek, 32, has been working for Pig Progress since 2005 and he became editor of the magazine and website two years later. Before joining Reed Business, he worked as a journalist at a Dutch newspaper and as a college teacher.
Dr S. Ernest Sanford, since 1994 swine specialist at Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd, president of the International Pig Veterinary Society – and hence chairman of the organising committee of the next IPVS Congress, to be held in Vancouver, Canada.
Emmy Koeleman (31) became editorial assistent for Pig Progress in 2004. In 2005, she became editor of Feed Mix - a sister publication of Pig Progress. Before joining Reed Business, Emmy worked for a variety of companies involved in agricultural publications.
Philippe Caldier is an agriculture graduate who has devoted most of his career to technical journalism and publishing, mainly in the agricultural and food business. Since 2001, he has actively been freelancing for an increasing number of technical media belonging to leading agricultural press groups in Europe. Philippe currently focuses his surveys on Eastern Europe including Russia and Ukraine.
