<p><strong>Redwood City, CA</strong></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>YottaMark, provider of HarvestMark, has appointed Ricardo Islas as director of Latin American sales.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Islas joins the HarvestMark team just as HarvestMark 2013, a new product line announced this month featuring HarvestMark Insights, which provides tools and analytics to optimize freshness and quality, and HarvestMark Connect, which powers shopper engagement and feedback programs, launches.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Islas tells AndNowUKnow, “I am excited to join the HarvestMark team as its director of Latin American sales during this time of tremendous growth. With the recent release of the HarvestMark 2013 product line, we have some powerful new tools—HarvestMark Insights and HarvestMark Connect—to offer our customers, and I look forward to expanding the already impressive HarvestMark customer roster to help more growers and shippers provide high-quality fresh food around the world.”</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Islas brings more than 20 years of agricultural industry experience to the HarvestMark team. He spent 10 years as director for Mexico and the Caribbean for Primuslabs, and has also served as an independent food safety consultant for companies like Apache Produce and Big Chuy Produce. Islas is familiar with the fresh and process industries, and is a food safety expert in HACCP, GloabalGAP, GAP, Tomato Metrics, Harmonized Audits, SQF, BRC and Produce Organic Certification.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>YottaMark founder and CTO Elliott Grant was also named to the Produce Marketing Association’s board of directors during last week’s PMA Fresh Summit convention.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.yottamark.com/" target="_new"> YottaMark </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
