Specialised nutrition industry elects new board and agrees ambitious strategy

Brussels, 30 September 2024

The members of Specialised Nutrition Europe (SNE)^[1] voted in favour of three new board members and agreed an ambitious strategy. SNE’s General Assembly with a record attendance in Brussels confirmed an enlarged board.

The new members of SNE’s Operational Board^[2] are:

• Teresa García Serna, who works for Laboratorios Ordesa, where she is quality and food safety director. Teresa was nominated by SNE’s Spanish members.
• Hernâni Sério, who works for Fresenius Kabi, where he is Senior Vice President for Global Marketing, Strategy & Portfolio Enteral Nutrition. Hernâni was also nominated by SNE’s Spanish members.
• Mike Poßner, who is the president of our German member association, which nominated him. Mike works for Nestlé Nutrition, where he is Medical Director for Europe.

SNE president Marie-France Pagerey said: “We warmly welcome our new board members and thank them, their national associations and their companies for their commitment to strengthening the voice of the specialised nutrition industry. Our enlarged board combines even more expertise and represents even better the diversity of the specialised nutrition industry in terms of geography, product groups and company sizes.’

The General Assembly also confirmed SNE’s ambitious strategy for the coming years, which includes more and better communication and focuses on SNE’s policy asks for the new term of the EU institutions, as summarised in SNE’s manifesto ‘Nutrition & food for thought’. For example, SNE asks for ‘solid and specific regulation for all foods for specific groups, especially for Young Child Formula for children from 12 to 36 months and Sport Foods, which are both currently excluded from the EU’s strict Foods for Specific Groups Regulation.’ SNE secretary general Beat Späth said: “The SNE team in Brussels is excited to advance our ambitious strategy and to work closely with our enlarged board”.