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New Albany, Oh, Us

Luxembourg , Lu

Clover, South Carolina, Us

Ask us how Augmented Reality and remote maintenance support can improve plant floor efficiency, reduce errors, increase revenue, and decrease machine shutdown time!

New York City, New York, Us

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has partnered with flavor and specialty ingredient experts to create a Flavor & Specialty Ingredient Industry Advisory Board. Along with the firm’s extensive experience and operating-intensive approach, Riverside’s introduction of the advisory board is another differentiated tool the firm will strategically deploy to provide value to middle-market, growth-oriented flavor and ingredient companies in the global food and beverage supply chain.

- Support companies of all sizes on their innovation journey with advice and guidance, based on a successful 38 year career in innovation and R&D.- Experience with FMCG, B2C, B2B, startups and design thinking principles for innovation. - Experience with participation in C-Suite, Executive Teams and Boards.

Palm Beach Shores, Fl, Us

- We help clients anticipate and lead change, build brands with deep insights, improve and transform systems, reduce costs, and strengthen the reputation of their company, their team and their personal leadership. - We provide services in a wide range of areas that span every part of business, including: Branding & Marketing, Innovation / R&D, Customer and Supplier Business Development, Supply Chain, IT and Digital Transformation, Purchasing, Communications, and Strategy & Corporate Development.- We have “P&G-Plus” DNA: business fundamentals and senior leadership at P&G combined with senior roles at other industry-leading firms.- We combine C-Suite Expertise and Street-Level Experience.- We give insights you can act on, solutions customized for your business, and a road map to a sustainable winning future.

- Influence the course of DISTAP (Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agriculture Precision) research at SMART (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology).- Through discussions and meetings with researchers, provide important appraisals and advice to MIT, to the SMART Governing Board, the SMART Director, and the researchers. - Contribute to written reports to the SMART Director and Governing Board co-Chairs, and Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF).

Zurich, Ch

- Provide strategy and business revenue model advice to startup in the area of contactless sleep diagnostics (B2B and B2C).- Mentoring and coaching of the founders.

Zurich, Ch

Provide technology platform, business revenue model and strategy advice, direction and governance in the area of contactless sleep diagnostics (B2B and B2C)

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Mentoring new start-up businesses at the MassChallenge Accelerator on a multitude of business questions, challenges, structures and strategies.

Norwood, Ma, Us

Amino acids play an essential role in your body’s health, function and performance. They naturally enable important internal processes to rebalance the body at the cellular level and keep it in a healthy state. Entrinsic combines select amino acid combinations to create natural synergy—working effectively together with the body’s processes to deliver targeted health and wellness benefits.Entrinsic’s precise amino acid combinations enable a broad range of transformational health and wellness solutions, including the next generation of beverages, dietary supplements and therapeutics. With this breakthrough, activating your body’s full potential is now within reach.

Uzwil, St. Gallen, Ch

Buhler is a family owned Swiss company with global presence providing processing solutions to many industry sectors. Our food & feed businesses cover grain & pulses collection, logistics, milling, malting, extrusion and drying processes, pasta & chocolate processing, and consumer food applications such as wavers, etc. More detailed info at www.buhlergroup.com. As industrial and digital innovation leaders, we aspire to set the industry standards for the food of today and the future. By continuously strengthening our innovation culture and collaborative innovation capabilities, we will enable our customers to be highly successful in the ever evolving food and feed markets.

Orlando, Florida, Us

-Support the company business and technology innovation strategy in the area of vertical and container farming opportunities.

Renens, Vaud, Ch

- Agree with the other Founding Partners the direction to the overall MassChallenge Switzerland startup acceleration program.- Provide governance and oversight to the various aspects of the MassChallenge Switzerland program (e.g. financial, mentor/coaching pool, judging /competition).- Secure with other board members the sustainable future of the acceleration program (e.g. identification of additional partners and sponsors).

https://www.eitfan.eu- Create a network of accelerators across Europe to drive food sector innovation and business growth.- Partner with a proven accelerator programme (MassChallenge) focused entirely on startup development.- Bring specialised knowledge and skills through partners to develop food sector innovation expertise- Provide access to international markets- Create a pipeline of viable food sector business startups from our four locations.

Heverlee (Leuven), Flemish Region, Be

https://www.eitfood.eu/- Agree with other Board Members on strategic direction and guidance to the EIT Food Colocation Center West (Belgium, France, Switzerland) activities for EIT Food program.- Provide Board governance over the daily operations of the CLC West organization.- Identify & recommend new industry, academic and startup partners to EIT Food.

Vernier, Geneva, Ch

- Member of the Executive Committee and representing S&T / Innovation at the Board Innovation Committee.- Created company wide visibility on Science & Technology innovation portfolio, driving choices on projects and improving the efficiency of S&T towards Givaudan 2020 strategy targets.- Led the strategy development on key cross-Flavor & Fragrances innovation platforms - Shape the Future.- Established Givaudan's presence in key external innovation ecosystems e.g. MassChallenge CH with startups, EIT Food Accelerator Network and others.- Driven the Agile Culture of Innovation within Givaudan's S&T organization to be able to adapt to the fast changing market trends and needs.

Vernier, Geneva, Ch

- Streamlined the innovation portfolio to the overall Flavors business strategy (reduction from ~200 projects to ~60) to improve overall effectiveness and business contribution.- Led the discovery & commercialization of 2 differentiating blockbuster technologies (broad flavor enhancer, high def reaction flavor process) driving significant flavor sales to date.- Implemented the innovation program on Flavor Richness and Freshness.- Implemented updated Culture of Innovation and the Global Product Management function (for better business alignment) within S&T and led the development of the future S&T leaders' succession plans.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Video interview on Connect +Develop- Developed with the R&D leaders across all Business Units/FutureWorks the needs list which was used on the Connect+Develop website to solicit external ideas & solutions to create new technologies and consumer products (e.g. Magic Eraser, Tide Drycleaners, ...)- Led a team of 30 in the Open Innovation office with presence in the Americas (West, South, East, North), Europe (UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Israel), Asia (Japan, China, India and Singapore). Acted as P&G's industry spokesperson for C+D.- Implemented, with the CEO and CTO, the C+D targets of 50% of all new products to have an external/open innovation component to drive the needed culture change in the R&D organization. The target was met within 4 years versus the planned 5 year from when the target was communicated.- Tripled the impact of Connect+Develop and became the partner of choice for external innovators, generating an additional $3 billion of revenue growth each year. Supported all 20+ business units (combined ~$80B sales) with their open innovation needs.- Led the implementation of knowledge management systems to capture and manage relevant open innovation and partnership information (e.g. Inno360)

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Supported the Swiss Precision Diagnostics JV on pregnancy testing, as well as explore new opportunities for home testing kits (ovulation, Chlamydia/Candida infection, ...)- Led the technical assessment of OTC business opportunities in respiratory health (e.g. allergy) and probiotic opportunities beyond Bifantis/Align.- Developed with multifunctional team (Clay Street project) the business case for Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements which formed the foundation for the later acquisition of New Chapter VMS.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Led a global upstream R&D organization with ~150 employees located in US, Newcastle-UK, Brussels-Belgium, Beijing-China with an operating budget of 20MM$, supporting a business of ~$13B.- Successfully supported the cyclodextrin technology platform for the Febreze brand and the first development of perfume microcapsules with Appleton as the external partner.- Built pipeline of technologies for the unit dose platform (tablets, liquitabs) across laundry and dishwasher detergents.- Continued to build strong relationships with chemical and enzyme suppliers to create strong competitively differentiated polymer and enzyme technology platforms.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Successfully led, in close alignment with business management, a multidisciplinary technology development team to invent and commercialize novel, innovative solutions in laundry, fabric conditioners, dish products and new business/adjacency opportunities. This required me to lead innovation projects across diverse technologies (e.g. polymers, surfactants, bleaches, enzymes, perfumes, ...).- Successfully developed with external partner (GreenEarth) a silicone solvent based washing system (patented) which has become the basis for the expanding Tide Drycleaners Franchise. Created "The Garage" for this intrapreneurial team to allow them to work with focus on this disruptive, potentially obsoleting (for current detergents) business proposition.- Successfully implemented the basis for Connect+Develop in the Fabric & Home Care Division by starting open, collaborative innovation programs with a set of strategic suppliers (in coordination with Innovation Procurement) e.g. BASF, Novozymes, ....- Led the successful development and establishment of the joint BASF/P&G Co-location Lab in Ludwigshafen. This lab still exist today and is considered within BASF as the example par excellence for innovation efficiency and effectiveness in terms of successful, commercialized, differentiated innovations (best ROI per scientist).

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Led team of technologists and formulators in Granular Detergent Formula Design to develop and commercialize the first super compact powder detergent - Ariel Futur - into the market.- Supported the Unilever MnTACN bleach catalyst risk assessment as basis for P&G's response to Omo Power's "soap war" in the UK.- Successfully developed and introduced in 3 month record time Ariel Power, the first percarbonate/amylase containing powder detergent in the market, to effectively pre-empt Unilever's Persil Power introduction.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

- Led technology projects in Liquid Detergent Formula Design (Ariel Liquid)- Successfully stabilized and commercialized cleaning enzymes (proteases, amylases, lipases) into market products (patented technologies).- Successfully developed and introduced novel color care technologies (polymers, enzymes, chelants, ...) into Ariel Color.- These technologies have driven product performance and resulting in better consumer acceptance and higher sales.

Protein Engineering of industrial food enzymes (amylases, glucose isomerases)Plant Genetic Engineering of agricultural crops (insect resistance with Bt toxin, herbicide resistance against Basta (total herbicide like Round-up)

Phd, Biochemistry

Master'S Degree In Science, Chemistry - Biochemistry

Wetenschappelijke Studies, Sciences