Claudia Welspacher

Teamleader Customer Service

Claudia Welspacher was born in 1982 in Bruck an der Mur (Austria). After finishing school, she completed a 3-year apprenticeship as an industrial management assistant at voestalpine Austria Draht GmbH in Bruck an der Mur.

Claudia then worked for another 3 years at voestalpine Austria Draht in the Rope Sales and Quality Management departments and completed the “automatic certificate generation” project earlier than scheduled.

In the autumn of 2000, Claudia moved to the secretariat of the Styrian Chamber of Labour (Arbeiterkammer Steiermark) for 8 months, where she was employed as an election assistant during the election of the Chamber of Labour, before she began a second period of training in adult education as a hotel and catering assistant. Over the course of this training she completed an internship in French-speaking Switzerland and successfully completed the training in December 2005.

In early 2006, Claudia moved to the federal state of Salzburg and started working for C.H. Erbslöh GmbH in Austria. Initially, activities included back office, logistics, merchandise management and purchasing for the countries AT, HR, SI and CZ, as well as assisting in management and accounting. This broadly diversified field of work includes the processing of customer enquiries, sample processing, complete order processing including the organisation of imports and exports of goods worldwide, including dangerous goods, as well as handling complaints and invoicing. She also conducts negotiations with shipping companies and other business partners, and completed her Matura (general certificate for university entrance) between 2009 and 2012, alongside her employment.

In order to cope with the increasing workload and the expansion of Austrian C.H. Erbslöh into new markets and countries such as SK, HU, BG, RO, XS, MK and BA, as well as UA and RU on occasion, the office team has been expanded to 4 employees, for whom Claudia acts as team leader.

Mihaly Gaspar

Sales

Mihaly Gaspar was born in Szombathely, Hungary, in 1977. He studied Food Sciences at the University of Horticulture and Food Industry in Budapest. After his graduation with a master’s degree in Food Industry Engineering in 2002, he started working as a salesman at the distribution company Fermenta Hungaria, focussing on flavours and beverage compounds of the Austrian producer AKRAS.

As a part of the customer relationship management, he started creating ready-to-drink and ready-to-eat samples in 2003 in the company’s own application lab to meet the clients’ expectations for quicker turnround times.

In 2008 he joined the company NRC (Nordmann & Rassmann) Hungaria, where he gained experiences with the flavours of MANE fils and its subsidiary Gelcrem Italy, specialised for the ice cream industry. Since the product range of NRC covered all main areas of the food industry, Mihaly participated in several R&D projects and pilot productions across various business applications.

Afterwards, he became Product Manager at Brenntag Hungaria in 2010. In that role, Mihaly was in charge of the sales of specialties and commodities from the represented suppliers with a focus on Givaudan flavours for both divisions – sweet and savoury.

In 2014 Mihaly joined HSH-Chemie Hungary as a sales representative. His product portfolio included Frey & Lau flavours and essential oils, as well as various additives for sports nutrition, convenience food, baked goods, meat processing and animal feed.

In 2017 Mihaly and his family moved back to his hometown where he started his own business as an R&D consultant for food manufacturers. In the recent years, he developed vegetable-based protein supplements for people sensitive to dairy products or those following a special diet.

In spring 2019, Mihaly has joined the C.H.Erbslöh Group as the Food Ingredients Account Manager for the Hungarian and Romanian market.

Brigita Berginc

Application

Brigita Berginc was born in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1997. After completing her Abitur (A-level equivalent) in 2016, she began studying Food Technology at the University of Ljubljana’s Biotechnical Faculty.

Brigita addressed the nutritional psychology topic of “stress factors and eating behaviour in students” in her dissertation. After successfully completing an engineering degree in food technology, Brigita became familiar with various production facilities and commercial kitchens from 2020, before completing her work placement in the laboratory at the University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik in 2022.

Since September 2023, Brigita has been working as an applications engineer at C.H. Erbslöh Austria and is responsible for the application area of our food ingredients for the central European region.