Douglas Hekking. Chief Financial Officer. Chief Operating Officer. Chief Sales Officer. Director of Product Devel. Robert A. Chief Scientific Officer. Wentz Chairman-Emeritus. Kevin G. Jim Brown President. Walter Noot Chief Operating Officer.
Douglas Hekking Chief Financial Officer. Robert Anciaux Director. Daniel A. David Mulham Chief Sales Officer. Patrique Richards Director-Investor Relations. Paul A. Jones Chief People Officer. Wood Independent Director. Fleming Independent Director. Xia Ding Independent Director. Fuller Lead Independent Director. Winssinger Independent Director. Peggie Pelosi Independent Director. Guest C. BlackRock Fund Advisors 8. Low-glycemic meal replacement shakes, snack bars, and other related products that provide optimal macro-nutrition complex carbohydrates, complete proteins, and beneficial fats in great-tasting and convenient formats.
Combine these products with our Essentials and Optimizers to benefits from a complete and healthy diet, as well as sustained energy throughout the day. These include materials and online tools that are designed to assist our Associates in building their businesses and in marketing our products. For complete information regarding our financials, see our periodic filings.
Our research and development activities include developing products that are new to USANA and new to the industry, updating existing USANA brand formulas to keep them current with the latest science, and adapting existing formulas to meet ever-changing regulations in new and existing international markets.
Our scientific staff includes experts on human nutrition, cellular biology, biochemistry, genetics, the microbiome, natural product chemistry, and clinical research. These experts continually review the latest published research on nutrition, attend scientific conferences, and work with a number of third-party research institutions and researchers to identify possible new products and opportunities and reformulate our existing products.
Our in-house research team has built strategic relationships with scientists at a number of universities and top research institutes. Our products are distributed and sold in 24 markets. We have organized our markets into two geographic regions: Asia Pacific, which includes three sub-regions, as well as Americas and Europe.
Asia Pacific has been our growth driver for the last several years with our most recent market expansion in this region including Indonesia in late Myron Wentz, received his Ph. He served as the microbiology director of three hospitals in Peoria, Illinois, from to In he started Gull Laboratories in Salt Lake City to use advanced cell culture techniques to make commercial tests to diagnose viral diseases. After spending all of those years in the laboratory, maybe I smelled too many vapors, fumes or touched too many chemicals; I was continually sick.
I pulled my nose out of virology just long enough to get a taste of nutrition I started eating right, but what I learned in the laboratory made me realize Wentz began taking a multivitamin, what he believed was the best multivitamin on the market. Then one day he read the label and was decidedly unimpressed with the supplement's ingredients.
I believe it was that day that I made the commitment that I was going to nutrient myself and my family with the kind of nutrition that I use to grow cells in culture. Wentz credited Dr. Once he saw Wentz's approach to nutrition at the cellular level, Colgan reportedly remarked, "The potential for this is far greater than personal health for you and your family.
I know everything that is going on in the nutritional industry, I have been in this field for 20 years. This will be a major boon to human nutrition. You must market these products. After six months of working on the sale, Wentz said he was looking forward to focusing on USANA's research programs, particularly those concerning products to help reverse the effects of coronary heart disease and stroke, the number one and three main causes of death in the United States, respectively.
In he also announced an agreement to contract with the Linus Pauling Institute, where independent tests would show, Wentz was certain, that USANA products were superior to others on the market, particularly as regarded their antioxidant capabilities.
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