Peter van Dooren
Management Consultant
peter.van.dooren@nutrivice.nl
06-30262956
Peter van Dooren graduated in1995 from Wageningen University with specialization Animal Nutrition and Business Economics. During his career of 18 years he was fortunate to work for employers that enabled him to gain a global experience of Feed Business in general and ruminant nutrition in particular.
After his study, Peter moved to Denmark, where he worked for the joint venture Coppens International B.V., Hans Sonniksen A/S and Axel Toft Grovvarer A/S. He was Sales Manager and nutritionist at the same time, consulting and selling on Dutch dairy farms. Farmers who have emigrated from the Netherlands to Denmark.
On average, he visited 10-15 farms a week and in almost every visit, it was about analyzing data, looking at the cows, calculating rations, making advises and discuss with farmers about things to improve. This he did during 5,5 years and it gave him a tremendous farm experience from which he still benefits today.
After 5,5 years Peter decided to move to another company: Joosten Products B.V., a company belonging to the Provimi Group. Joosten Products is specialized in producing milk replacers. Peter was working there for 5 years as Technical Director and became an expert in young animal nutrition, especially in calves, piglets and milk replacers. Joosten Products B.V. exports to all parts of the world, which enabled him to visit many countries, many Joosten customers, Joosten Business Partners and many farms all over the world.
After that he joined Trouw Nutrition International, where he became Global Product Manager Ruminants and later Global Species Manager Ruminants. In this role he was leading the ruminant world within Trouw Nutrition/Nutreco, and it further enhanced him knowledge in the dairy area. Within Nutreco, he led the Global Innovation and Product Management, chaired Species Councils, the Nutreco Ruminant Platform Meeting, Nutreco Ruminant Academy and visited and consulted on many dairy and beef farms all over the world. Not to consult himself, but to help the Nutreco colleageus to consult better.
In 2012 Peter founded his own company Nutrivice Consultancy. As management consultant he uses his working experience, knowledge and network to give nutritional and management advice to large dairy farms, feed suppliers and milk processors around the world.
Ben Braakman
Ruminant Nutrition Consultant
ben.braakman@nutrivice.nl
06-31989991
After completing the HAS education in Dronten, Ben Braakman started his career in 1988. Since then, he has been very busy with animal feed.
The first 6 years Ben worked at Booijink Veevoeders in Raalte in cattle- and pig farming.
After that, Ben worked 7 years for Provimi. During this period he visited a lot of foreign countries like, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, but also Bangladesh and Baghrein, where he organized trainings for Provimi colleagues.
Because of his children, Ben worked after his Provimi period for 10 years in the Netherlands as nutritionist and cattle specialist with Van Benthem Veevoeders. This company maintained close contacts with Schothorst.
Ben was a member of the C.O.R. (Collective Research Cattle), where animal feed studies were conducted together with cooperatives.
Ben remained interested in other countries and at a certain point he came into contact with Bles-Dairies / The Friesian. Ben worked for this company for the last 6 years. His work consisted of making ration calculations in all parts of the world, setting up dairy farms in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and training Vietnamese and Mongolian farmers. Companies varied from 2 – 72.000 cows.
Since July 01, Ben is involved in Nutrivice Consultancy, where he can pay again more attention to animal nutrition. But Ben also stays active for Bles-Dairies, among other for the long-term nutritional support.
Ben’s experience is that he keeps a fresh look, looking around at other places.
Jan Bakker
Ruminant Nutrition Consultant
jan.bakker@nutrivice.nl
06-40710975
After graduating from his Bsc. in Tropical Animal production at Larenstein Deventer in 1997 Jan started working as a commercial nutritionist, first in the south of the Netherlands for Hendrix Feed and later for RWZ in the Eiffel region in Germany.
After some adventures related to cattle export to Ukraine and Algeria in 2000 he started working as a trainer at the dairy training centre in Oenkerk, the Netherlands. In 2005 Jan became self-employed carrying out mainly training, consultancy and project management assignments in countries like Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Pakistan, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Germany, Belarus, Turkey and Poland.
Apart from nutrition Jan is also a skilled hoof trimmer and combines preventive healthcare measurements with his work as a nutritionist.
He also has a passion for agricultural education and has worked at different agricultural colleges and universities at improving education of the next generation farmers and their advisors both in a hands on and strategic way. Currently he is involved at Van Hall Larenstein in Leeuwarden. In September 2017 Jan joined force with Nutrivice Consultancy.
