Robert Lu Email & Phone Number

Beijing, China

Beijing City, China

• Established strategic partnership with Chinese Woman and Children Healthcare Association, and elected as the standing committee member of its Healthcare Industry Branch.
• Managed a large-scale project with Chinese CDC for three years in Beijing, Shanghai and Xiantao/HuBei (Investigation the effects of disinfectant products on reducing infectious diseases with children).
• Led company to achieve titles of Technology Center and Engineering Technology Center for Guangzhou city and Guangdong province.
• Led R&D team to apply goverment funding on techincal and innovative projects.
• Responsible for company’s IP work including publication of patent and technical papers.

Tianjin Suburb, China

• Led R&D's product development projects on health-care, nutritional food, cosmetics, detergent, and apparatus products.
• Optimized R&D’s domestic and global organizational structures.
• Established ODM projects with national leading firms for healthcare apparatus.
• Managed regulation group for product registration.
• Built up scientific relations with Tiens University to train young instructors and research fellows.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

• Managed R&D for product development and improvement, technical support, and process optimization on disinfectant, laundry, surface cleaning, and personal care products.
• Led company to achieve National High Tech Enterprice title which promoted business image and recuded annual tax burden.
• Established strategic partnership with Chinese Medical Doctor Association which named the company “Enterprise with Best Social Responsibility in Healthcare Industries”.

Montvale, New Jersey, USA

• Led new product development for Harpic brand cleaners for Europe and South America from 2006 to 2008; a new lavatory care product achieved 6% of UK market and its annual global sales reached €20 million in the first.
• Managed a major cross-functional project in development of an innovative cleaning device with US R&D, French marketing, Australian design firm, and Chinese OEM in 2005.
• Invented new formulation technologies for dual chamber and dual phase cleaning applications to deliver synergistic performance from 2002 to 2004.
• Played a strong leadership role in cost savings for Dettol brand cleaners for Hongkong, Malaysia, India, and the Middle East in 2002, increasing gross margin by 10% across all regions.
• Developed several all purpose cleaner, floor cleaner, and bathroom cleaner under Lysol, Mop & Glo, or SaniGel brands for North America from 1994 to 2000, and each achieved annual sales over $15 million.

South Charleston, West Virginia, USA

• Investigated structure-function correlations for global leading brands of TRITON AND TERGITOL nonionic surfactants.
• Studied emulsion and adsorption properties for metal and laundry I&I cleaning applications.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), International Business

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Engineering

Biomedical engineering, Surface chemistry, lung surfactant

Master'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Membrane transportation

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Polymer sciencePolymer science