Ajinomoto: Seiji Takagi has been appointed manager of Ajinomoto U.S.A., Inc.’s specialty chemicals division. He will oversee marketing and sales promotion in his new position. Before coming to the U.S., he worked for 13 years in the specialty chemicals department of Ajinomoto Co., Inc. in Tokyo, Japan, where he served in a wide variety of capacities including sales, marketing and new ingredient development manager for the amino acid and amino acid cosmetic ingredients businesses....