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Vice President of Business Development
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The Vita Group
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Vice President of Business Development
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Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Santosh Chavan is listed as Vice President of Business Development at The Vita Group, a with 271 employees, based in Strasbourg, Grand Est, France. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at glatfelter.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Santosh Chavan.
Santosh Chavan previously worked as Board Member at Fiberxcellence and President at Fiberxcellence. Santosh Chavan holds Strategic R&D Management from Insead.
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About Santosh Chavan
"Experienced Leader Driving Sustainable Growth and Innovation"A dynamic leader driven by results, known for my strong interpersonal and entrepreneurial skills. With over two decades of progressive experience in Nonwovens and related industries, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise. My academic background includes executive education in Strategic R&D Management and a Master’s in Pulp and Paper Technology.Key Achievements:• Successfully implemented group-wide product and technology strategies, portfolio management, and roadmaps, resulting in substantial profitable growth.• Generated multimillion-dollar revenues through new product launches, enhancing our intellectual property portfolio and trade secrets.• Delivered consistent cost savings through technology, product design, and process improvements.• Fostered effective cross-functional collaboration, accelerating innovation from concept to commercialization, and creating substantial organizational value.• Enhanced customer engagement and collaborative innovation, leading to increased new product sales percentage.Expertise/Technologies: Wetlaid, Airlaid, Spunlace & Sontara, Meltblown, Nano fibers, SMS, Various specialty Paper including vegetable parchment, various chemical and functional coating and impregnation technologies.Products and Market Segments: Automotive and industrial filtration, HVAC, building, energy, food packaging, tea bags, single-serve coffee, technical & specialty paper, healthcare, hygiene, beauty care, consumer wipes, cleanroom, and professional wipes.I am passionate about driving sustainable and profitable business growth through innovation and strategic planning, always staying attuned to global market, industry, and technology trends. Let's connect and explore opportunities for collaboration and growth.
Listed skills include R&D, Product Development, Paper Industry, Manufacturing, and 28 others.
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The Vita Group
14 roles
Santosh Chavan work experience
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Board Member
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Sep 2024 - Present
President
Fiberxcellence is a rapidly growing, innovative knowledge-based consulting firm delivering complete solutions, specializing in fiber-based materials. In addition to consulting, we are a European supplier of cotton linter pulp for specialty paper, filtration and chemical applications and are expanding our services to include collaborative R&D projects.We provide innovative, customized, sustainable and Natural Fiber Solutions, helping our partners succeed in solving critical technical and business problems, in achieving cost savings and profitable growth, adjuscent markets, implementing strategic innovation models to achieve new heights.
Sep 2022 - Sep 2024
Vice President Of Business Development
CurrentVita is a global leader in flexible PU foams and advanced materials innovation. Among others, Vita specializes in Industrial & Specialties applications such as Filtration, Medical, Hygiene, EV batteries, Energy management, NVH, automotive, aviation and marine industry. Being part of a high-performance team, we are committed to driving efficiency, fostering growth, unlocking new market opportunities, and delivering exceptional value to our customers.
Sep 2024 - Present
Senior Director Innovation
Played a significant role in the process leading to the acquisition of Jacob HolmGroup by Glatfelter. Played a key role in driving the integration of the highly capable Product Development teams between Glatfelter and Jacob Holm and in delivering the target synergy from the ongoing developments, customers, and in-sourcing options leveraging groupwidecapabilities.
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Corporate Vice President | Product & Technology Development | Member Of Executive Management Team
Strategic product and technology development, provided sustainable solutions and innovation capabilities to customers globally. Focused and collaborative innovation, to boost new product commercialization, achieved more than 40% of new product sales. M&A: Played significant role in enhancing the value of the company pre-merger with Glatfelter Corp
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Vice President Product Development | Member Of The Global Leadership Team
Led Global Product & Technology development for the Group (Jacob Holm & Sontara). Augmented value of projects portfolio and registered significant progress in the new product sales consistently year on year.
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
Vp Product & Technology Development | Member Of The Specialties Business Area Management
Speicalties | Food & Beverages | Medical | Life Sciences | Group Product and Technology Development.Development and commercialization of multiple sustainable solutions for food packaging, compostable single serve tea and coffee and high performance medical consumables. Achieved new product sales of 17%
Jan 2016 - May 2017
Senior Manager, Group P&T Development | Site Director | Global Collaboration | People Leadership
Led the Group R&D (GPTD) based out of France, driving the Group Projects Portfolio and initiatives across all the business areas (Advanced solutions, Filtration, Food & Medical and Building & Energy). Achieved 23% sales from new products from corporate initiatives. Established life science and diagnostic application lab. Corporate award to GPTD with highest human potential index in the year 2014.
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015
Manager, Product & Technology Development | Group Pd | Filtration And Life Sciences Development
Built a team of Scientists and Technicians, and capabilities for Filtration Business at the Global PD center in France. Developed and commercialized Ahlstrom Flow2Save, that won the EDANA Index Award in 2014. Developed Transportation filtration Roadmap 'Horizon' while multiple product launches in Filtration and Life Sciences.
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
R&D Scientist | Projects Manager | Group Pd | Filtration | Specialty Paper | Nano Fibers
Principal liaison at the Group R&D with Ahlstrom’s Filtration Business globally. I was the driving force in global success of the R&D projects through state of the art innovation process, global project management skills and innovation networking with Filtration BA and customers globally. Achieved multi-million euros cost saving through proprietary process technology, and delivered key innovations such as high temperature Diesel particulate filtration, Disruptor(R) nano alumina fiber based water filtration, water based nano fiber.
Apr 2007 - Nov 2012
Manager | Asst. Manager | Filtration Media Development | Purolator
Contributed to prestigious projects related to Paper and Nonwoven filtration media and successfully handled deputations to Japan & China. Insightful experience in the development & validation of cellulose, and synthetic fiber filtration media, fiber blends, paper making operations, development of nanofiber, melt blown and multilayered filtration media. Contributed to the organization in winning the ‘Golden Peacock National Innovation Award-2005’ (Highest honor by the Govt. of India)
Nov 2003 - Mar 2007
Visiting Faculty | Research Associate | Pulp And Paper Science And Technology
Have successfully handled teaching & research assignments at B.N. Degree College of Karnataka University, India in the areas of Wood Morphology, Pulping, Stock Preparation, Paper Making Chemistry and Processes. Research on lignin extraction synthesis of Ligno-Sulfonates for specialty applications.
Jul 2001 - Oct 2003
Shift In Charge | Senior Supervisor | Stock Preparations | Coating Solutions | Paper Making
Experience working in the Stock Preparation and on Fourdrinier Paper machines (MF & MG) and Cylinder mold machine, producing various types of writing, printing, specialty papers and boards.
Jun 2001 - Oct 2003
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Santosh Chavan education
Strategic R&D Management
Insead
M.Sc.Tech, Pulp & Paper Technology
Karnatak University
B.A.Sc, Pulp & Paper Technology
Karnatak University
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Santosh Chavan works for The Vita Group.
What is Santosh Chavan's role at The Vita Group?
Santosh Chavan is listed as Vice President of Business Development at The Vita Group.
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Where is Santosh Chavan based?
Santosh Chavan is based in Strasbourg, Grand Est, France while working with The Vita Group.
What companies has Santosh Chavan worked for?
Santosh Chavan has worked for The Vita Group, Fiberxcellence, Glatfelter, Jacob Holm, and Ahlstrom.
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Santosh Chavan holds Strategic R&D Management from Insead.
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Santosh Chavan is listed with skills including R&D, Product Development, Paper Industry, Manufacturing, Chemistry, Engineering, Filtration, and Management.
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