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Ventria Expands Team and Hires Kansan as Director of Bioprocessing Operations

Thursday, January 10, 2008 General News
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JUNCTION CITY, Kan., Jan. 9 Ventria Bioscience announcedtoday that Angus Connell would be joining the company as Director ofBioprocessing Operations for the company's Junction City facility.
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Connell, a Kansas native, has extensive experience in operations,engineering design and process development leadership with Koch Industries andCoffeyville Resources. At Koch Industries, he held positions including Managerof Process Engineering and Director of Engineering and Research. He was mostrecently the Operations Manager for Coffeyville Resources. Angus received hisBachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University ofTulsa.
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"Angus brings a wealth of process engineering, operations management, andplant expansion capabilities to our team in Junction City," said Greg Unruh,Vice President and General Manager, Ventria Bioscience. "His experience isvital as we continue with the expansion of our facility. We are continuallysearching for talented employees with engineering, biology and agronomyexperience to fill open positions in our Kansas operations. Many of thecandidates we have hired in the last year have been trained by Kansas StateUniversity, University of Kansas, McPherson College and other Kansas-basededucational institutions. Many are Kansas natives, like Angus, who are lookingfor the opportunity to become part of the bioscience industry in their homestate of Kansas," he said.

"I am quite happy for the opportunity to remain in Kansas, at the sametime I get to work in a cutting edge industry where I can continue to learn.My other opportunities would have required me to leave Kansas in order toadvance my career," said Connell.

About Ventria

A recent child health study showed that Ventria's Lactiva and Lysominhelped reduce the duration of diarrhea in children by 30 percent when added torehydration solutions. Childhood diarrhea is the second leading killer ofchildren, claiming 2 million lives annually according to the World HealthOrganization.

For more information, see our website: http://www.ventria.com

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and informationconstitute forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertaintiesthat could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated orimplied by such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertaintiesmay include, but are not limited to, recent changes in senior management,fluctuations in operating results, market conditions and changes in technologyand increased competition.

SOURCE Ventria Bioscience
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