Guiding companies through the complex maze of evolving social norms, global regulatory requirements and industry commitments to improve reputation, accelerate global growth and preserve value.

Evaluated clients existing global compliance programs/processes and public policy positions, and provided specific recommendations to preserve value, minimize business risk, accelerate time to market, and respond to public concerns.

Worked with clients to continually improve their global regulatory affairs and product stewardship programs for optimal efficiency and effectiveness. These programs ensured safe and environmentally sound use of chemicals throughout their lifecycle, improved compliance performance, reduced/eliminated business disruption, facilitated global growth and improved company reputation.

Guided clients through the maze of complex global chemical policies to meet regulatory requirements and industry standards, such as TSCA, REACH, OSHA and the Product Stewardship Code under Responsible Care®. Provided clients with innovative strategies and systematic solutions to identify and resolve critical environmental, health and regulatory issues, enhance compliance performance, respond to public concerns, and improve corporate reputation. Led teams of scientists and compliance experts to meet requirements in the United States and the European Union.

Held progressive leadership positions in regulatory toxicology, regulatory affairs, product stewardship, public policy advocacy, and corporate issues management. Established corporate principles for public policy advocacy and advanced those principles throughout the international chemical and consumer products industry. As a member of a board committee at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), set the direction for product stewardship initiatives and science-based policy. As a member of the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) industry delegation to the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) negotiated elements of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). Co-led the design and implementation of the Global Product Strategy (GPS), which was the chemical industry’s contribution to SAICM. Co-led the public launch of GPS in 2006 at the first International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM), held in Dubai, UAE, where UNEP launched SAICM. Led industry implementation of GPS and presented an industry progress report at the second ICCM in Geneva, Switzerland 2009. Led the design and implementation of global product stewardship plans that met company standards, corporate commitments to voluntary industry initiatives, and regulatory requirements in countries where products were sold. Guided the development of a “green chemistry” ranking system by providing a compliance and science-based system with objective criteria to define safer and more environmentally sound chemical alternatives. Led the development of a corporate issue management expertise center that defined best practices to monitor and evaluate emerging issues, prioritized top corporate issues, facilitated the development of corporate strategies and plans, and assigned resources to implement the plans and measure/report progress.