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New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Rebuild the emerging market R&D organization and revamp its project portfolio’s
• Lead multinational team on emerging market whitespace products and global platform technologies developments
• Manage J&J’s open innovation/external collaboration in Asia and its global integration to enable/ accelerate/maximize innovation outputs
• Lead J&J’s Innovation Pillar whose team designs/deploys programs to build innovative culture/ capabilities and enrich disruptive pipelines at R&D centers in Shanghai, Singapore and Mumbai.
• A key member of Asia Technical Council which steers J&J’s R&D mission/strategy/ operation across Asia
• A key member of J&J’s Global Innovation Team managing worldwide patent strategy and portfolio

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Led team to develop and commercialize disruptive technologies which drove impressive consumer wins globally for fem pad
• Built critical technical insights and breakthrough enablers that greatly accelerated pipeline technologies/products development.
• Managed the sector's successful biosafety & chemical QA programs.
• Led several technology & science societies across company and managed their external collaborations.
• Coordinated patent strategy in core strategic areas with multiple business units

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Built the new business development organization primed with the vigor, passion, creativity and flexibility & entrepreneurship while leveraging P&G's strength in technical depth.
• Led the development and commercialization of novel whitespace products and their driver technologies whose categories were strategically complementary to existing global business.
• A key member of a multifunction task team to assess/determine acquisition targets.
• Guided regional R&D that successfully developed a series of low cost personal and health care products for mid tier consumers in developing countries.
• Key member of advisory board and expert panel of colloidal, polymer and other societies
• Established and led the nanotechnology society which had more than 300 passionate scientist members around globe.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• As key leader of the steering team, oversaw the daily operation of the new technical center with focus on installing the QA/Safety systems, designing the training programs and building an innovative and global site.
• Managed the technology function for emerging market products. Built strong core expertise in several global strategic areas.
• Designed and deployed structure which integrated each site individual functionally with world project team to accelerate both personal growth and project development.
• Established collaborating programs with a dozen prestigious research institutes and leading suppliers across Asia to broaden the site's capabilities and leap forward its programs.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Led the task team to design and supervise the construction of a new technical center in Beijing with vision that won support of both top management and company board.
• Overcame institutional resistance and developed the very first successful PhD recruiting system in China’s industry. Led the recruitment and training of 40+ seed R&D staffs for the new Beijing Technical Center.
• Managed a multifunction team to redesign and re-launch the powder detergents in China and Japan, with strong blind test against key competition at lower cost.
• Led teams in both Japan and China to develop a novel technologies/products critical to AP market

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Led a team of scientists from multiple geographies to investigate the underlying science and refine the bar formula & making process with the outcome detergent bar gaining market shares in China, Philippines and other.
• Worked with multifunctional team from marketing, finance and sales to develop the business model and product strategy in emerging countries.
• Led successful re-development and deployment of disruptive perfume delivery and malodor control technologies whose progress had been stalled for years due to “insurmountable” technical barriers.
• Led the team to build insight/model on optimum surfactant system for balanced cleaning performance and perfume fabric susbstantivity
• Developed and commercialized novel polymer technology that brought superior cleaning performance to its host detergent via fabric surface modification through laundry process
• Coordinated a joint task team with supplier scientists to resolve the production issue of dryer sheet lotion that costed the company $1MM USD each week. Successfully completed the mission ahead of schedule.

Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry

M.S., Polymer Physics