Chris Gemmell Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

As Managing Director, my primary focus is the overall development and delivery of client services. ELNA manages a project portfolio comprised of private and investor funded enterprises specialising in FMCG / CPG and retail technology.Current Portfolio: Food & Beverage – Innovation & Operational Excellence | Wellbeing & Nutrition – Functional Food Start-Up | Therapeutic Product Technology – Scale-Up and Exit Readiness | Retail Technology – Early Stage Start-Up Strategy

London, Gb

Our purpose is to build A Better Tomorrow™ by reducing the health impact of our business through offering a greater choice of enjoyable and less risky products for our consumers. Our innovation portfolio is a critical driver of this transformation, executed with excellence and optimised for maximum impact.• Reporting to the Global Operations Director/Group Head of R&D (c-suite), responsible for multi-category innovation strategy of rapidly growing £3Bn net revenue business.• Leading teams across Innovation Portfolio Management, New Product Introduction andInvention Strategy (Patent) to identify, prioritise, and deliver growth initiatives.• Accountable for Product Lifecycle Management (from Definition to Delist) and leading innovationdecision making with the BAT Management Board.

London, Gb

Leading a large and diverse group of immensely talented innovators, our goal and output is remarkable consumer products and solutions to productivity, sustainability, patent or regulatory challenges.We have a broad range of product categories in and beyond nicotine and are building globally leading brands and have enabled over 24M smokers who would otherwise continued to smoke to transition to a satisfying reduced risk alternative.

London, Gb

Responsible for a holistic Innovation Transformation program, from diagnostic, design and delivery reporting to the management board.'Unleash Innovation' was designed to propel the transformation of the BAT portfolio, structure, culture and ways of working - covering Insights, Innovation Strategy, Portfolio and Project Management, Intellectual Property, External Innovation Ecosystem and R&D Infrastructure, Capabilities and Ways of Working.

London, Gb

American Snuff Company, LLC is the second-largest U.S. manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products. Its leading brands are Grizzly and Kodiak. Reynolds American Inc. is the U.S. parent company of American Snuff Company, LLC.Additional innovation leadership responsibility for the scale up of Modern Oral in the US Market.

London, Gb

Supporting our Transforming Tobacco strategy through leading; Quality, EHS, Innovation,and Supplier Management of the New Categories Products (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems) supplier base, supported by fantastic teams in the US operating companies and Hong Kong.

London, Gb

Accountable from the tobacco seed, to the point of sale, including all aspects of the value chain -this role incorporates multi-site, multi-geography leadership of 1,000+ people to deliver exceptional results and an aggressive innovation pipeline for some of the world's most Premium tobacco brands (Kent, Pall Mall, Dunhill, DuMaurier, John Player etc)

London, Gb

As part of the country leadership team, this role incorporates two manufacturing facilities (Romania & Serbia - combined production over 30Bn cigarettes), as well as End to End Supply Chain responsibility in Direct Distribution and Wholesale/Distributor markets.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Responsible for providing strategic direction across the end to end supply chain for the CEEMEA area.Accountable for manufacturing/SC strategy development across the Emerging Markets network. (5 Plants in Russia & 1 in Turkey – Key Categories; Biscuit, Crackers, Cereal, Snacks).Key deliverables: Establish Lean Culture, Align Reporting & Metrics to Enable Benchmarking, Build Audit System & Best-Practice Sharing Mechanisms to deliver World-Class Manufacturing Management System.Support regional expansion goals through providing operational expertise.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

• Providing Supply Chain (SC) strategic direction, alignment and leadership for the Turkish Joint Venture and support for the Kellogg Emerging Markets group. Coordinator of the Crisis Management team.• Developing and maintaining 5 year strategic planning tools, to ensure organizational and manufacturing capability is aligned to deliver ambitious incremental growth.• Aligning SC goals and targets to the growth plan ensuring internal and external benchmarks are in place to grow the category and gain share versus the competition.• Enabling governance in the local organization through clear defined processes and areas of accountability.• Direct accountability for Ready To Eat Cereal (RTEC) manufacturing facility.• Ensuring the Cost of Goods on existing products and future innovations are in line with the P&L expectations of the business, and setting cost saving challenges based on this.• Local Innovation, Mergers & Acquisition Supply Chain lead – including business restructure project.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Leading localization of SC systems for forecasting, scheduling and promotional planning.Creating manufacturing KPIs to drive local accountability for; Safety, Quality, Operational and Financial performance in Ready To Eat Cereal (RTEC) manufacturing.Establishing financial visibility of materials and cost of production; utilizing this to drive a cost innovation road map for the JV; establishing a culture of cost awareness in manufacturing and creating a clear link to the commercial P&L.Local Innovation, Mergers & Acquisition Supply Chain lead – including new product development, integration of muesli producer/manufacturing and developing export capability from Turkey to surrounding territories.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Project and 3rd Party Manager of in-source, outsource and re-sourced innovative products to provide best cost, third party manufacturing solutions to capacity or capability challenges.Solution source for RTEC (Ready To Eat Cereal) innovation projects, including market and manufacturer analysis across Europe.Relationship manager for multiple co-manufacturers across Europe, including contract and incident management where relevant.Active role in budgeting process and financial responsibility, including delivering cost saving in line with challenge.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Leader of a production and packing area, delivering innovation introduction, and value engineering through improvement projects on materials and process.Creating source of loss tracking tools to drive improvement through analysis. Successful implementation of process operational tracking system.Creating and delivering a communication program across all operations staff to drive improvement projects and report performance.Plant representative for managing of new product development working with R&D.Managing de-listing of products and de-commissioning of extrusion process plant.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Responsible for operational and new product introduction aspects of quality.Improvement project lead for, launch readiness, traceability, consumer complaint reduction and training program.System owner for consumer complaints process leading standardisation of reporting and use across European Manufacturing Sites; and representative for external communications with regulatory bodies relating to complaints.

Battle Creek, Michigan, Us

Completing 4 year structured engineering apprenticeship program while gaining on-site appreciation for a food manufacturing environment.Working on a shift basis with responsibility for carrying out planned and breakdown maintenance of high speed production lines and process equipment to ensure delivery of schedule and line efficiency targets; while managing a work/life balance studying for a degree at night school.

Executive Education

Ba (Hons), Business & Marketing

Btec - Onc, Engineering (Electrical/Electronic)

Btec - Onc, Engineering (Mechanical/Manufacture)

Btec - Nvq Level 3 Engineering Maintenance, Engineering

Piabc Level 3 Certificate In Packaging

Nvq Level 2, Engineering Manufacture

Advanced Modern Apprenticeship, Engineering