Dr. Jeffrey Fine re-joins AAK team as senior director of customer innovation for U.S. and Canada
AAK, one of the world’s manufacturers of value-adding specialty vegetable fats and oils, is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Fine has re-joined AAK’s team as senior director, customer innovation for the U.S. and Canada. After serving as a consultant since October 2019, Dr. Fine will lead AAK’s Customer Innovation organization for the U.S. region.
Dr. Fine previously worked with the AAK U.S. organization from 2004-2016 and established the U.S. R&D function, which has now evolved to become the Customer Innovation organization for the U.S. region. His initial accomplishments for AAK included: set up of laboratory-scale oil modifications processes and procedures in Port Newark and development of the first margarine hardstocks for AAK's U.S. bakery business. Dr. Fine also led the research and development efforts on strategic growth-focused segments, infant nutrition and candles. He launched the first "mitigated" products for infant nutrition in the U.S. and collaborated with the wax team responsible for the improved quality and reliability of vegetable wax for AAK’s newly emerging candle business.