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KANSAS CITY ANIMAL HEALTH CORRIDOR NAMES NEW CHAIRMAN
Nov. 5, 2012
Source: Kansas City Animal Health Corridor
Hill's Pet Nutrition president Kostas Kontopanos has been named chairman of the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor advisory board, effective Jan. 1.
As chairman, Kontopanos becomes the public face of the Corridor, a concentration of 220 animal product research and manufacturing firms stretching from Manhattan, Kansas, to Columbia, Missouri, containing roughly a third of the nation's $19 billion animal health industry. This represents the largest animal health industry concentration in the world.
The board announced Kontopanos' appointment to the one-year term on Tuesday. He succeeds Craig Wallace, CEO of Ceva Holdings Inc., who will remain on the board. The AHC Advisory Boar also appointed Scott Bormann, vice president of U.S. commercial operations for Merck Animal Health, as the board's vice chair. Traditionally, the vice chair assumes the chairman position the following year.
Kontopanos became U.S. president of Hill's Pet Nutrition in 2011, capping a 19-year marketing career at Hill's and Colgate Palmolive.
"Hill's has called Kansas home for more than 60 years. We wholeheartedly support and have leveraged the rich heritage of animal health, innovation, research and collaborative assets that make the Corridor unique," said Kontopanos.
"The appointment of Kostas as chair and head of a global pet nutrition company based in Topeka, Kansas, and Scott as vice chair illustrates the geographic reach of the Corridor and the variety of assets located here," noted Kim Young, vice president of bioscience development for the Kansas City Area Development Council.
The Kansas City Animal Health Corridor initiative has resulted in close to 1,300 new jobs and nearly $1 billion in capital investment for the Kansas City region.
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