The people behind Broiler Signals

Maarten de Gussem

Maarten De Gussem graduated as a DVM from University of Ghent Veterinary School in 2000 with a thesis on Infectious Bursal Disease Virus at the University of Arkansas, USA.

He began working in the field at DEGUDAP group practice in France, The Netherlands and Belgium, dealing with layers, breeders, broilers and turkeys. In 2001, Maarten joined the division of J&J Global Poultry Technical Manager at Janssen Animal Health, with focus on coccidiosis, gut health, helminthosis, histomonosis and red mite.

In 2009, Vetworks was founded by Maarten, servicing the poultry industry with a global team of specialists and providing support on poultry health topics all over the world, with focus on mycoplasmosis, general gut health and coccidiosis.

Besides his work at Vetworks, Maarten is also an academic adviser at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Ghent University. And a member of scientific committees of Poultry Mycoplasma Conference and of IHSIG Conference on Poultry Intestinal Health.

Ton van Schie

Ton van Schie grew up on a dairy farm and studied animal science at Wageningen University. After his study he worked in agricultural education and as an agricultural journalist. This was the ideal background to start working at Roodbont Publishers B.V. in 1999. Since 2010 he is one of the owners of the company and mainly responsible for content production. With help of his network of experts and his own critical view, he combines scientific knowledge with practical experiences, text with images, theoretic information with hand-on advices and mixes this all together to create the unique content products Roodbont is known for. He is the spider in the web of authors, reviewers, illustrators, graphic designers, translators with only one goal: to make agricultural knowledge accessible to a large audience. You can contact Ton via tvanschie@roodbont.nl or by telephone on + 31 6 52718064.

Janneke Janssens

Janneke Janssens has 20 years of experience in the agricultural publishing sector. As co-owner of Roodbont Publishers, she is responsible for business development and concept development.  Roodbont Publishers is an internationally operating agricultural publishing company. It offers knowledge products that are currently on sale in more than 40 countries worldwide. In the context of Mushroom Signals, Janneke has final responsibility for the publishing concept, its development and identifying new opportunities in the market. If you have any questions, tips or see potential opportunities for further development, please contact Janneke at jjanssens@roodbont.nl.

Tiago Prucha

In 2017, Tiago graduated as a Master in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Porto during which he carried out a study at a poultry farm on how the densities can affect the performance of broilers.

Tiago has worked at Soja De Portugal, one of the largest broiler integrations in Portugal as a poultry veterinarian and farm manager. This experience gave him an indispensable insight on a functioning full poultry production cycle.

Since 2018, Tiago is working as a Poultry Consultant at Vetworks giving support to the poultry industry worldwide. On behalf of Vetworks, Tiago is working on several projects including:

• The EU H2020 Phagovet: A cost-effective solution for controlling Salmonella and Escherichia coli in poultry production
• Demonstration and commercialization of the e-learning modules to the Broiler Signals manual. You can contact Tiago via tiago.prucha@vetworks.com or +35 1917443901.