Austin, TX Chemi Nutra, is proud to announce that Cassandra Heiden has joined the company as Supply Chain Manager. In this new position, Cassandra will be responsible for customer service, planning, import/export and domestic transportation, inventory management, and overall logistics, for Chemi Nutra’s family of proprietary, health benefiting specialty ingredient products, currently marketed and sold to the natural products industry. Chemi Nutra’s proprietary ingredients are widely used as keynote ingredients in dietary supplements, sports nutrition, functional foods/beverages, medical foods, and pet nutrition.

Cassandra has spent the past five years working in the import/export and logistics arenas, managing air and ocean freight shipments, booking shipments, managing freight clearances with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, managing inventory, and being involved in billing and rate quotations. Most recently, Cassandra was employed by Kuehne+Nagel, Austin, TX, working as Air Import Coordinator. Kuehne+Nagel is part of the Swiss owned global transportation and logistics company, a major player in the world’s air and sea freight business, operating in over 100 countries,

“Cassandra is a great addition to our Chemi Nutra team, and because of our continued growth as well as added regulatory requirements by customers, state, federal, and international agencies, this is a very important, functional, position for our future. Specifically, Cassandra will manage import logistics, customer orders, and logistics, including vendor quality assurance forms, involving our branded, patented, specialty ingredient compounds, produced in Chemi’s own U.S. FDA inspected plants in Italy and Brazil – all of which will add speed and efficiency to our businesses,” said Scott Hagerman, President of Chemi Nutra.

Chemi Nutra is the US business unit of parent company Chemi S.p.A., a privately held pharmaceutical and nutraceutical company based in Milan, Italy. Chemi, with cGMP certified

manufacturing facilities in Italy and Brazil, is best known in the global nutritional arena for its introduction of SerinAid® PhosphatidylSerine (PS) and AlphaSize® Alpha-Glyceryl Phosphoryl

Choline (A-GPC), widely used, patented, health benefiting dietary supplement ingredient compounds used to enhance learning, memory, and concentration, exercise performance, power output, youthful wellbeing, and to reduce stress.