Speakers

The State of Vanilla

Henry Todd, Jr.

Virginia Dare
Brooklyn, NY
hwtoddjr@VirginiaDare.com
www.virginiadare.com

 

The world vanilla market is facing significant oversupply.  The root causes of this situation will be examined as will specific sustainability challenges overproduction is creating for sector stakeholders.  The viability of different market strategies for managing this situation will be discussed with specific emphasis on approaches that might help the industry move beyond vanilla’s well documented history of boom-and-bust cycles.

 

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Henry Todd, Jr. is the Paris, France based Vice President of International Operations at Virginia Dare. He is responsible for managing the Company’s business in Europe and parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia. He reports to Howard Smith, Jr.

 

Henry brings 22 years of food ingredient experience to Virginia Dare. Prior to joining the company, he acted as Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa for A.M. Todd where he worked until 2012. Henry was able to develop deep vanilla expertise in his role as President of Zink & Triest where he was employed from 1992 to 2005. He began his professional career in banking within Sales and Marketing at State Street Bank.

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Henry received a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He has traveled extensively, particularly in Madagascar, Indonesia, India and Uganda in his roles at both A.M. Todd and Zink & Triest.