Jacq de Koning

EMEA Production Quality Lead & Phytosanitary Manager Manufacturing at Monsanto

Summary
Specialties: Management, Research, QA & QC, Agricultural & Horticultural Production, Seed technology,
Molecular biology & diagnostics, Phytopathology, Biotechnology,
Experience
EMEA Production Quality Lead & Phytosanitary Manager Manufacturing at Monsanto
July 2013 - Present (1 year)
Within Monsanto for the business unit Vegetable seeds
Managing R&D within Manafacturing in Production Research, Sanitation Research and Field Quality
Program;
Managing direct 10 FTU Researchers (PhD., Msc.) within Manufacturing QA at 6 locations, 4 countries
within EMEA.
Phytosanitary Manager for Manufacturing EMEA
Chair & country representative ISHI-NL at International Seed Health Initiative ISHI
2011 - Present (3 years)
ISHIveg is part of the International Seed Federation ISF and focusses on the development and promotion of
Industry standarized Seed Health methods.
Member Board of Experts NAL NAKtuinbouw Accr. Laboratories at Naktuinbouw
2005 - Present (9 years)
Member of the Board of Experts of NAKtuinbouw Accreditated Laboratories within the NAL system
EMEA Seed Health Manager at Monsanto
January 2010 - July 2013 (3 years 7 months)
Within Monsanto for the business unit Vegetable seeds
Managing direct 4 Researchers (PhD., Msc., Bsc.) within Research Seed Health & Sanitation and Field
Pathology at mulitple locations within EMEA and 1 QA-Seed Health Lab Manager.
Indirect 25 - 35 Lab- technicians.
Phytosanitary Officer for Manufacturing EMEA
Lead R&D and QA at Monsanto
December 2008 - January 2010 (1 year 2 months)
Western Seed International is since 2006 part of the International Seed Group a consortium of vegetable seed
companies owned by Monsanto
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Lead R&D, trait discovery, production & manufacturing and quality control. Responsible for initiating and
supervising internal and external R&D projects, project administration and reporting. Biosafety officer ML-1
lab
Lead QA, company procedures, business manual, complaint handling. Responsible for phytosanitary issues in
relation to production and re-export and for the different international breeding stations.
Seed technologist, QA, Manager QC at Monsanto
September 2006 - November 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Western Seed International is since 2006 part of the International Seed Group a consortium of vegetable seed
companies owned by Monsanto
Research, development and implementation within the area of Seed Technology and Production Research.
Research, development and implementation of Seed Quality Control tests (germination, seed health and
purity)
Manager Quality control laboratory 2 3 FTU.
Responsible for Quality Assurance in handling external claims and company procedures.
Seed technologist, QA, Manager QC at Western Seed International
September 2005 - September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Research, development and implementation within the area of Seed Technology and Production Research.
Research, development and implementation of Seed Quality Control tests (germination, seed health and
purity)
Manager Quality control laboratory 2 3 FTU.
Responsible for Quality Assurance in handling external claims and company procedures.
Seed pathologist at ENZA Zaden
March 1999 - August 2005 (6 years 6 months)
Leading Seed Pathology Research (Seed health tests, Seed coating and Sanitation)
Managing a research group of 2 3 FTU.
Member of the NAL accreditation Working Group
Biosafety officer of the ML-1 lab
Research Assistant at Plant Research International
March 1989 - February 1999 (10 years)
Research assistant in Plant pathogen relations involving virus, bacteria, fungal and insect pathogens in
flower, vegetable and agricultural crops.
Lab Manager ML-1/VMT-lab.
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Publications
Sorting of Vegetable Seeds by Magnetic Density Separation in Comparison with Liquid Density
Separation
Seed, Science and Technology October 1, 2011
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Liquid Density Separation (LDS) increases the germination quality of a sub-batch of seeds within a seed
batch. A novel, alternative method for separating seeds by density is Magnetic Density Separation (MDS). In
this paper, a comparison is made between LDS and MDS. It is also shown that MDS can improve
germination quality by separating seeds continuously into multiple fractions in a single process step, which
saves a significant amount of time and work.
Development of specific primers for the molecular detection of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
michiganensis
Poster, EPPO meeting 2004 Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. 2004
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Development of specific primers for the molecular detection of Xanthomonas campestris pv campestris
Poster, EPPO meeting 2004 Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands 2004
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Genetics of biological and molecular markers in Mycosphaerella graminicola, the cause of septoria tritici
leaf blotch of wheat.
J.A. Lucas, P. Bowyer & H.M. Anderson (Eds.), Septoria of cereals, a study of pathosystems. CABI Publishing,
CAB International, UK, USA, pp. 161-180 (1999). 1999
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Genetics of biological and molecular markers in Mycosphaerella graminicola, the cause of septoria tritici
leaf blotch of wheat.
15th Long Ashton International Symposium 1998
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Towards the isolation of avirulence factors in Fusarium oxysporum from Carnation
Cereal Research Communications (1997): 841-843. 1997
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Molecular diagnosis of Fusarium spp.
Cereal Research Communications (1997): 251-257. 1997
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Discordant groupings of Fusarium spp. From sections Elegans, Liseola and Dlaminia based on ribosomal
ITS1 and ITS2 sequences.
Mycologia (1996) 88: 361-368
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Ribosomal DNA analyses challenge the status of Fusarium sections Liseola and Elegans.
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Sydowia (1996) 48: 90-104 1996
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Quantitatively-inherited resistance to Globodera pallida is dominated by one major locus in Solanum
spegazzinii.
Theor. Appl. Genet. (1994) 88: 764-769. 1994
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Mapping of loci involved in quantitatively inherited resistance to the potato cist nematode Globodera
rostochiensis pathotype Ro1.
Theor. Appl. Genet. (1993) 87: 464-470. 1993
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Interspecific hybridization between the cultivated potato S. tuberosum subsp. tuberosum L. and the wild
species S. circaeifolium subsp. circaeifolium Bitter exhibiting resistance to Phytophthora infestans
(Mont.) de Barry and Globodera pallida ..
Theor. Appl. Genet. (1992) 83: 459-466. 1992
Authors: Jacq de Koning
The use of luminescence for single copy detection on Southern blots.
Boehringer Mannheim Biochemica (1991) 3: 172-179. 1991
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Non-radioactive detection of single-copy DNA-DNA hybrids.
Pl. Mol. Biol. Rep. (1990) 3: 172-179. 1990
Authors: Jacq de Koning
Skills & Expertise
Quality Assurance
R&D
Manufacturing
Agriculture
Molecular Biology
Research
Plant
Microbiology
Six Sigma
English
ISO
Change Management
Quality Management
Dutch
Business Strategy
Program Management
Quality Systems
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People Management
Biotechnology
Factory
Management
Horticulture
GLP
Agronomy
Agribusiness
Quality System
Vegetables
Lifesciences
Quality Control
Technology Transfer
LIMS
Genomics
Genetics
Cell Culture
Education
University of Utrecht
M.Sc., Biology, 1992 - 1997
Hogeschool van Hall Larenstein Velp
B.Sc. Botanical, 1983 - 1989
Jansenius Lyceum Hulst
H.A.V.O., 1978 - 1983
Honors and Awards
2010: Monsanto Seed Technology Innovation Award
Interests
Business related:
Breeding, Seed, Horticulture, Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food production,
Personal:
Whisky (single malt), Rugby, Racket bal, Swimming, Literature, Cooking, Carnivorous plants, Insectivorous
plants, Prehistoric Rock Art, Antique prints of Carnivorous plants,
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Jacq de Koning
EMEA Production Quality Lead & Phytosanitary Manager Manufacturing at Monsanto
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