Mrs. Tanja Gordeeva has a long-standing reputation in the Russian Poultry industry in which she is active almost 40 years now. After graduating from Biological Department of the Moscow State University where she specialized in animal genetics, she joined Central Poultry organization of the USSR as a geneticist taking part in developing local genetic programs, generating the breeds and building up a net of breeding farms for the state, supplying poultry industry with the best of local breeding material.

Being also involved in export of breeds from other countries she had many contacts with international breeding companies and through Euribrid company effectively cooperated with former Soviet Union for many years.

In 1992 Mrs. Gordeeva joined Euribrid company as commercial and technical representative. Working for Euribrid she built very strong market for Hisex in C.I.S. countries and greatly contributed to the growth of Hybro's share in this market. Mrs. Tanja Gordeeva will report to Hybro area manager for Central and Eastern Europe, Bart Feijen.

Mrs. Anna Nemtseva holds a degree in Business Administration and has ten years of experience in sales and marketing working for western companies, among them Hendrix Poultry Breeders, where she worked as sales coordinator. Anna also took up her new role on May 1 onwards and will report to Mrs. Tanja Gordeeva.

Hybro general manager Richard Maatman is delighted that both Tanja and Anna have joined the Hybro team. "Hybro has been established in the former Soviet Union since 1965 - and Tanja has made a greatly-valued contribution to Hybro's strong customer relationships in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarussia and the Baltic States.

"With Tanja and Anna in our team, we will continue to deliver fast, effective technical service and short lines of communication, as well as a refreshing openness that is geared to building long-standing, mutually rewarding partnerships for the future."

Source: Hybro - 10th June 2005