Accomplished sales, marketing and business development leader at BASF, the largest chemical company in the world; Demonstrated experience of building strong customer relationships and driving sales growth through new business development; Experienced in leading people to drive business growth through formulating and executing new strategies for specialty and commodity chemicals;

Market lead for coatings for automotive OEM, refinish, aerospace, fleet and rail Coatings Business Segment lead responsible for sales growth for resins and additivesStrategy and Innovation functional team leader responsible for building new product pipeline for automotive, aerospace and rail coatings segmentLeader for new product launches in North AmericaResponsible for Managing and developing customer engagement Lead strategy development for coatings and execute on new business and market opportunities

A member of Market & Customer Development, a corporate department at BASF Canada, Subsidiary of BASF Corporation headquartered in Florham Park, NJ, USA and part of BASF SE (Germany), the largest chemical company by sales globally. Corporate strategy, market intelligence and analysis, business development activities for BASF CanadaCanada macroeconomics tracking and update to senior management in Canada and USAChemicals need and spend analysis for major BASF end marketsStrong focus on business opportunities in the Oil and Gas market including market assessment, and distribution channel assessmentMember of the BASF North America Strategy 2025 team for Oil and GasMember of North America Pipeline Industry TeamMember of the North America Market & Competitive Intelligence TeamOther ActivitiesChair for BASF Canada Diversity and Inclusion Council (Jan 2015 to Dec 2016)Member of BASF Canada GRIPS business case simulation challenge team (BASF's Global business case simulation competition with more than 150 teams across the globe participating)

Strategy consultant for leading corporates such as Lockheed Martin, GE, BAE etc. Deep understanding of several high technology areas and industry landscape. Experience in managing and leading corporate strategy projects. Excellent ability in clearly identifiying cost efficient and optimal strategic solutions and communicating it to senior management of corporates. SpecialtiesMarket research, technology entry strategy, regulations and policy assessments, partnership strategy, product and technology evaluation, supply chain assesment, IP analysis and market analytics.

• Principal designer and developer of a microfluidic (Lab-on-a-chip) platform called NutrichipTM for nutritional profiling of dairy, food and clinical samples.• Designed and developed first microfluidic platform (NutrichipTM) for SciMed laboratories in under 6 months of joining SciMed Laboratories Inc.• Drafted a patent application as a principal inventor. Involved in developing ideas for future bio-technology projects at SciMed, actively involved with drafting project grant applications and attracting investors.• Team-Member: Handheld fluorescence based detection/reader system project, actively involving in design and planning of the detection system • Involved in establishing a consortium called the NutrichipTM nano-consortium which comprises collaborators for the project which among others includes University of Alberta, T.R.Labs and National Research Council (NRC) of Canada.

• Worked on a microfluidic (Lab-On-A-Chip) project to develop an integrated system for bacteria and virus detection in collaboration with University of Laval, Microbiology Dept and Enablence Technologies, an Ottawa based photonics company.• Lab-assistant for the Micromechatronics laboratory handling 15 graduate students pursuing research in the field of MOEMS, microfluidics and MEMS.

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