Marcel van Dijk is the Marketing Manager for the Port of Los Angeles where since 2001 he has been responsible for the business development of the Port and maintains good relationships with key individuals in the logistic chain and cargo owners.

His focus is on bulk and break-bulk cargo handling and has responsibility as an account manager for bulk and containerized terminals at the Port of Los Angeles. With his knowledge of major import and export cargoes, he is keen to develop the Port as a major gateway for containerized and non-containerized cargo.

Prior to joining the Port of Los Angeles, Marcel worked for 15 years in the private sector, a career that spanned many phases of corporate management. His career in the USA started with Honeywell Transportation and Power Systems in 1997, where he was the after-sales business manager for their turbocharger product line. Prior to Honeywell, Marcel worked for Renault Cars in The Netherlands.

Marcel received a Bachelor's degree from the Economic and Administrative College in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He and his wife, Nicky, live in San Pedro, California.

Dr. Marshall is Chief Scientific Officer with Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories, Inc., a division of the global life sciences company Eurofins Scientific. He also is cofounder and Director of the Food Safety Institute, LLC, an integrated consulting and analytical services company affiliated with Eurofins. His former positions include Associate Dean and Professor of Public Health, College of Natural and Health Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Adjunct Professor with the Colorado School of Public Health, Professor of Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University, Assistant Professor of Food Science at Louisiana State University, Contributing Editor for the peer-reviewed scientific journal Food Microbiology, and four consecutive terms on the editorial board of the Journal of Food Protection. He is a frequent volunteer and consultant to trade associations, NIH, WHO, FAO, USDA, and other government agencies and private companies. His research and expertise has been featured in popular press venues such as Consumer's Reports, Fine Cooking, USA Today, Fitness, Health, Men's Health, Chemtech, Nature Science Updates, and ASM Journal Highlights. He is a frequently invited speaker and a prolific book chapter writer. With over 250 publications and over 180 invited presentations, his scientific research and outreach interests focus on improving the microbiological quality and safety of foods. Among these was the completion of the 4 volume Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering, which he Co-Edited. He has been the recipient of a number of awards for his scholarly efforts including the Mississippi Chemical Corporation Award of Excellence for Outstanding Work, the International Association for Food Protection Educator and Harold Barnum Industry Awards. He is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Food Technologists, former Chair of the International Food Science Certification Commission, and former member of the Board of Directors of the American Spice Trade Association. On a personal note, early in his career he served as a deck hand on an Alaskan fishing vessel (well before Deadliest Catch) and prefers to spend his free time lost on a trail in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Dr. Jon Bell has been the Director of the National Seafood Inspection Laboratory for the National Marine Fisheries Service for over 5 years now. NSIL is an ISO 17025 certified laboratory, and is the only seafood laboratory for the agency responsible for management and regulation of our national fisheries. NSIL provides microbiological and chemical analytical services to ensure seafood product quality and safety in support of the agency's fee for service Seafood Inspection Program, Office of Law Enforcement, Animal Bi-products Program, and other NOAA goals and objectives. NSIL, through its Trade Monitoring Program and participation in CCAMLR and ICCAT, provides fisheries trade and data monitoring of imports and exports of fish species that are managed by these international RFMOs. NSIL has recently invested in analytical systems to improve abilities to identify and quantify veterinary drug residues, metals and minerals, biotoxins, bacterial pathogens and other safety hazards in seafood products.

Previously Dr. Bell supported the shellfish and seafood industry in Louisiana as a SeaGrant seafood specialist and Extension Professor in the LSU AgCenter Food Science Department for over a dozen years. Jon's interests focused on seafood handling and processing for both seafood safety and quality improvement. Jon also has extensive experience in canned tuna and other seafood industry positions.

Mr. Wilson is a lead figure for seafood inspection in NOAA. He holds a BS degree in Food Science and Industry and a Master of Business Administration, and has worked in the seafood industry and as an inspector or manager in the Seafood Inspection Program for over thirty-five years including the positions of HACCP Program Manager, Deputy Director of Field Operations, Chief Quality Officer, Assistant Director for Quality and Technology and Deputy Director. He is now the Director of Seafood Commerce and Certification for the NMFS Office of International Affairs and Seafood Inspection. This position includes the duties of Director of the Seafood Inspection Program.

Mr. Wilson has served on the Conference for Food Protection and the HACCP Library Steering Committee for the National Center for Food Safety and Technology. He has also served as the representative of the United States in several international workshops and seminars as an expert in HACCP and Quality Systems for the seafood industry. He participates as one of the US experts in the development and maintenance of the ISO 22000 family of standards. Mr. Wilson is active in the Institute of Food Technologist and the American Society for Quality. He is an ASQ Fellow and a lifetime member of Phi Tau Sigma, the honorary food science society.

Haejung An obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Food Chemistry in 1989. She worked as a faculty member at the Oregon State University, Auburn University, and the University of Southern California from 1991 to 2008 working on assuring food qualifies and safety. In 2008, she began working for the US FDA as a Regulatory Analytical Chemist on various projects to secure food sources free from chemical contaminants. The regulatory levels of some of the contaminants are very low into ppb range and this low level requires the use of highly effective analytical instrument for the detection and analyses. She is responsible for developing, validating, and conducting the regulatory analytical methods for the screening of prohibited chemical contaminants in both domestic and import foods.

Trevor Findley is the Deputy Director of the Food Disclosure and Labeling Division at USDA. Before joining AMS to help draft the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, he worked on production agriculture programs with the USDA's Farm Service Agency and Risk Management Agency. Prior to joining USDA, he completed his Masters of Law in Food and Agricultural Law at the University of Arkansas and worked as an attorney in private practice where he represented clients throughout the food supply chain.

Hilary Cole was appointed as Branch Chief of the Livestock, Poultry and Fish (LPF) Branch within the Agricultural Marketing Service in March of 2018. Hilary is responsible for directing commodity procurement activity associated with Branch Operations totaling over $1 billion annually. Ms. Cole spent ten years in USDA Dairy commodity procurement prior to working on National Defense contracts as part of the U.S. Department of Energy. Her youth spent on her family farm in Central Missouri heavily influenced her desire to participate in the AMS Commodity Procurement Mission. Hilary is a native of Prairie Home, Missouri and has a bachelor's degree in marketing and an MBA from the University of Central Missouri.

Ms. Sirilak has been the Regulatory Leader at the Global Innovation Center, Thai Union Group PCL for 5 years now. Her current role is leading the quality system harmonization and the food fraud mitigation and food defense strategy of the business. She provides regulatory supports to Thai Union Innovations and to business globally.

Previously, she worked with Thai Fisheries Department for over 30 years. In the 80's-90's she was involved in the MOU on Canned Tuna and Frozen Shrimp with the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans and eventually these became the Mutual Recognition Agreement on Fish Inspection System between Thailand and Canada. She introduced HACCP to Thai fish inspection and the fishery industry. Her work on fish inspection systems and HACCP have been shared among Asian countries. She served as Director of Fish Inspection and Quality Control Division and General Inspector at Thai Department of Fisheries during 2011-2013. She also served as Thai Agriculture Attache to Japan during 2003-2011. She is the past president of the International Fish Inspector Association (IAFI) 2002-2003 and now serves on the Regional Board of Directors At Large of IAFI.

Sirilak received a Master Degree from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada.

John retired in 2019 as the Vice-President of Quality Assurance for Chicken of the Sea. He has 48 years in the tuna business as a scientist, Program Manager of a large-scale tuna/porpoise research program, Operations Manager, VP of Operations and QA for COSI. He started his career with the IATTC in 1971, and has essentially 20 plus years in the fish capture and procurement side of the business, and 25 plus years in the canning factory operations side of the business. He has co-authored multiple papers (8) on HACCP, and using HACCP principles in processing tuna, as well as, salt penetration in tuna.

Mr. Solis started his career with FDA in 1998. Prior to working in FDA, Mr. Solisworked in the R&D field focusing on Medical Device and Drug ApplicationProducts with Biotechnology firms. Mr. Solis has held many positions withinFDA that includes working at the FDA lab in Irvine, California, HQ positions with theDivision of Import Operations in Rockville, MD, working at FDA HQ – ITbranches and working in the FDA Los Angeles District Office EnforcementOperations. Mr. Solis was selected to be the Division Director for the Division ofWest Coast Imports on February 9, 2018. Prior to that, he was the Director ofImport Operations for the Los Angeles District since 2009. He now runs one ofthe largest Import Divisions in the FDA's Office of Enforcement and ImportOperations. The Division of West Coast Imports manages all FDA Air and SeaPort Offices and FDA Import employees in the states of Washington, Oregon,Nevada, California, and Hawaii.

Mr. Solis has had many accomplishments within FDA and these are a fewnotables: Implementation of PREDICT at all ports in the US, the implementationof electronic communications and paperless transactions initiatives with theTrade Associations, formation of the CBP/FDA Teams including the Opioid TaskForce and the Federal Destruction Redelivery Team, formation of the West CoastACE Team, formation of Federal and State Task Forces, conducting FederalOperations, streamlining the refusal process in the Ports of LA, San Franciscoand Seattle, and development of strong partnerships with the filers, brokers andimporters in the Pacific Region.

Mr. Solis is nationally recognized as a subject matter expert in the program areaof Import Operations and gives local, as well as, national training on ImportsInvestigations. He is a member of the National Leadership DevelopmentWorkgroup at FDA's Office of Training and Education Development, has servedas a mentor for the Federal Executive Board in Los Angeles and the PotentialSupervisor Program within FDA, member of the FSMA Workgroup at HQworking on FSVP implementation. He also has had integral roles in FDAOperations with other Federal Agencies, working with CBP, HSI, USDA, FWS,DEA and State and local law enforcement agencies. Currently, aside from hisduties at the port, Mr. Solis is also a member of the FSMA – Foreign SupplierVerification Program (FSVP) Implementation Team as well as the AssociateCommissioner's IT Advisory Workgroup, the Associate Commissioner's ImportAdvisory Panel, member of AFDO, WAFDO, ASQ, OCRA and the Pacific IslandHealth Officers Association (PIHOA).

Mr. Solis holds a Masters Degree in Healthcare Administration from theUniversity of LaVerne and a Bachelor's Degree from University California ofIrvine.