Seattle-based Trident Seafoods appointed Willem Appeldorn its new managing director sales and marketing in The Netherlands.

Appeldorn joins Trident after working most recently as Business Development Director at JP Klausen. He started with Trident in January, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He will be overseeing and leading the raw material sales and trading in Europe. New business development, organization and strategy development are also among his tasks.

Appeldorn worked for JP Klausen for more than 10 years in various positions.

In his most recent role at JP Klausen he was focusing on growing value for products and customers by "defining, developing and implementing new business opportunities," according to his profile on LindedIn.

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