Wim Dekkers

He has 28 years' experience in poultry industry with breeding companies including Cobb Europe and has worked extensively in recent years in central and eastern Europe where he will be operating for Cobb Germany.

"Mr Dekkers has a thorough understanding of Cobb products and will be assisting us to expand markets through further enhancing product performance and customers' profitability," says James Truscott, director of Cobb Germany, which is the breed's franchise distributor for 20 countries across the region.

A graduate of Deventer state agricultural college in the Netherlands, Mr Dekkers began his career on a FAO project in Madagascar before specialising in poultry and has worked in many European, African and Asian countries including Russia and China.