Hermanussen graduated from Wageningen University with a Master’s Degree in Animal Science. He has held several senior management positions in procurement within highly competitive, complex and challenging industries. He has worked in the compound feed industry at Nutreco and ForFarmers and gained extensive experience in risk management, process optimisation and strategy and business development. He started his career in a technical sales role marketing pig feed, and switched few years later to procurement, buying grain by-products from the EU starch industry for over 20 years now. Three years ago he joined scale-up ChainCraft and supported their journey to a circular economy and CJ Wildbird Foods Europe who are supporting biodiversity and wildlife in gardens and on balconies. Earlier this year he started at Looop, and as Head of Procurement he oversees the valorisation and upcycling of co-products from the agri-food and fermentation industries.