Amitom

Amitom, a team of professionals in the processing tomato sector

AMITOM is a non-profit making association grouping professional organisations of tomato processors in the Mediterranean region.

For more than 40 years since its creation in 1979, this international organisation has been collecting and storing technical and economic data and information on the processing tomato field, from research to final sale.

AMITOM is based in Avignon (France)

Amitom’s missions:

Relations between organizations • Collection and circulation of information • Creation of conferences Agricultural and technological research • National and international projects Participation in international standards • Promotion

Team

President
M. Antonio Casana
(Italy)

Vice-President
M. Dimitris Nomikos
(Greece)

General Secretary
Mme Sophie Colvine

Antonio Casana

Antonio Casana was born in Italy in 1966 and graduated in Agricultural Science from the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza (Italy) in 1991, where he did his dissertation on tomato genetics. He began his career as a Quality Assurance Manager for a company processing and canning tomatoes and other vegetables between 1993 and 1999, then was an administrator of Suncan, a fruit processing company from 1999. Since 2003, he has been with Solana SpA, a leading tomato processing firm in Italy, initially as General Manager, and since 2013 as CEO. Between 1996 and 2004 he was also a contract professor on Food technology at the Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza-Cremona.

Antonio is President of the vegetable product sector at UIF (Unione Italiana Food), member of the BoD Anicav and President of the Sustainability committee of TomatoEurope of which he is a past President.

After a Bachelor in business administration from Deree College in Athens and a MBA from Boston College in the USA, Dimitris Nomikos joined D. Nomikos S.A., the leading tomato products processing industry in Greece in 1983.

He is currently the president and executive director of the company.

He is also president of the Greek Canners Association and has served as president of the European Organization of Tomato Processors (now TomatoEurope) and of AMITOM.

Sophie Colvine graduated in Food Science and Technology from ENSBANA Dijon (France) in 1990. She also holds a master’s degree in marketing & Product Management from Cranfield University the UK.

After working as a Food Scientist and Sensory Analyst for multinational food company RHM Foods in the UK, she joined the staff at the Mediterranean International Association of the Processing Tomato (AMITOM) in Avignon (France) in 1995 where she coordinated various international research projects and edited the magazine Tomato News.

She became General Secretary of AMITOM in 2003 and of the World Processing Tomato Council (WPTC) in 2004.