Cyanotech names Brent F. Kunimoto as vice president, sales and marketing.KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1996--Cyanotech Corp. (NASDAQ/NMS:CYAN) has named Brent F. Kunimoto, 37, as vice president, sales and marketing. He will have overall marketing responsibility for Cyanotech's products worldwide, including the company's market-leading Spirulina spirulina Any cyanobacteria in the genus Spirulina. A traditional food source in parts of Africa and Mexico, spirulina is an exceptionally rich source of vitamins, minerals, and protein, and one of the few nonanimal sources of vitamin B12. Pacifica nutritional supplement products, as well as new microalgae products under development by the company, such as natural astaxanthin and a genetically engineered genetically engineered adjective Recombinant, see there mosquitocide. "Brent brings broad strategic marketing expertise to Cyanotech," said Gerald R. Cysewski, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer. "His appointment completes our current phase of strengthening our management team as we seek to build sales of Spirulina products worldwide and to pave the way for sales of our new products in development. "I am also pleased to announce that Kelly Moorhead has accepted the position of vice president, International Sales. This change will allow Kelly to maintain his focus on increasing foreign sales, which last quarter accounted for a record 62 percent of total sales." For the past seven years, Kunimoto has held a variety of marketing management positions at Nestle Food Co., most recently responsible for building a new business in the specialty pet food market. Before joining Nestle, Kunimoto was a brand manager for General Mills  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . Inc. for two years, and prior to that, he was a senior consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. for three years, working with a broad spectrum of marketing and manufacturing clients. Kunimoto holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration in business strategy and marketing from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . Cyanotech develops and commercializes natural products from microalgae. The company is currently producing microalgae products for the nutritional supplement and immunological diagnostics markets and is also developing microalgae-based products for the aquaculture aquaculture, the raising and harvesting of fresh- and saltwater plants and animals. The most economically important form of aquaculture is fish farming, an industry that accounts for an ever increasing share of world fisheries production. feed/pigments and biopesticide markets. Nutrex Inc., the company's wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , produces and markets a line of Spirulina-based nutritional products for the retail market. CONTACT: Cyanotech Corp., Kailua-Kona Ronald P. Scott, 808/326-1353 or Russell Communications, Los Angeles Bruce Russell, 310/216-1414 |
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