Henk Brus was born in the Netherlands in 1957 as son of canned foods importer. After he finished his study on Psychology – he became a family therapist in 1980. In 1987 he decided to apply his problem solving and communications background to the commercial sector and accepted a position as junior sales man with the international canned fish importer MCM Foods bv. in the Netherlands From 1992 to 1998 he was vice-president of the company During this period he expanded the company European wide presence especially in the canned tuna markets.
In 1998 he founded his own company Atuna bv – a global tuna trading company covering the total vertical supply chain. He also started in 1998 a tuna blog at atuna.com, which since then has become the worlds leading internet portal on tuna. He has been a speaker at major tuna conferences over the last 15 years – and Co-chairman of the World Tuna Conferences in Bangkok.
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