SpecialChem (www.specialchem.com) accelerates growth and innovation in specialty chemicals and materials. Founded in 2000, the company delivers digital marketing solutions in chemical and material value chains designed to educate and engage early-stage technical buyers of ingredients for cosmetics, coatings, adhesives, polymers, and plastics. From new product development to new customer engagement, our solutions are tailored to support our clients' business growth. We are especially experts in digital and inbound marketing. Leveraging the power of the SpecialChem's global member network, my role is to support clients in developing and executing strategic new product development and digital marketing programs, in order to reach their growth objectives.

Weatherall Group LLC is a management consulting firm focused on the specialty chemicals and materials industry, including such sectors as personal care, coatings, polymers, packaging, energy, and related specialty segments. Founded in 2010, Weatherall Group assists clients with innovation support, business intelligence, global project management, and market research design needs.

Société de Chimie Industrielle (www.societe.org) was founded in 1918 in New York as the American Section of a French parent, which no longer exists. Today, Société is an independent nonprofit organization involved in a number of activities including our highly regarded and well attended monthly luncheons, featuring guest speakers the list of which includes CEOs and other C-Level executives, government leaders and the investor community, scientists and other chemical industry experts. Through the support of our members Société also provides scholarships to students pursuing the study of chemistry. In addition, The International Palladium Medal is awarded biannually by Société to honor an individual who has distinguished themselves by reason of outstanding contribution to the chemical industry.

Kline & Company, Inc., is an international consulting and research firm that has served the management consulting and market research needs of organizations in the chemicals, materials, energy, life sciences, and consumer products industries for more than 50 years. As the Senior Vice President for Kline's Market Research (KMR) division, I was responsible for P+L and reported to the CEO. The KMR division publishes in-depth comprehensive multiclient market research reports on regional and global markets primarily for regional and global clients in the consumer products, specialty chemicals and materials, specialty petroleum products, and agricultural/specialty pesticides industries.During this time, I developed broad experience with global business-to-business market research and business intelligence in consumer products, petroleum and energy, specialty chemicals and materials, agricultural/specialty pesticides, and related industries. My experience also includes global management consulting for strategy support, mergers and acquisitions, technology assessment and innovation support, manufacturing cost benchmarking, and customer loyalty analysis.

Global practice leader for Polymers and Materials, and Petroleum Products; Executive responsibility for Manufacturing Cost Bechmarking services

Practice leader for Advanced Materials, Polymers, and Petroleum Products

Managed market research projects on polymers and petroleum products