Betsy Dorn is one of three Principals at Circular Matters LLC, a consulting firm specializing in sustainable materials management and circular economy solutions for packaging, paper, and selected other materials. For over 30 years, Betsy has been assisting public and private sector clients develop plans, evaluate policies and operations, and launch new programs. In recent years, Betsy’s work has focused on the end-of-life management of packaging materials, packaging policy analysis and recycling market development. Prior to becoming a consultant, Betsy managed Mecklenburg County (Charlotte), N.C.’s Recycling Division for 6 years.
Betsy has an undergraduate degree in Biology and a Master of Science in Public Health degree in Environmental Sciences and Engineering. When not working you may find Betsy running, paddle boarding or mountain bike riding in her south Florida surroundings.
At the Consumer Brands Association,
Stasz works on issues such as recycling,
waste, sourcing, supply chain
sustainability and other topics as they
pertain to the consumer packaged goods
industry.
Among other initiatives, she is leading a
national effort to address the broken
recycling system in the United States.
Through this effort, Stasz is working to
raise recycling rates, reduce the amount
of packaging waste sent to landfills,
prevent marine debris and ensure
recyclable packaging gets recycled.
She also leads the Food Waste
Reduction Alliance (FWRA), a crossindustry
initiative to reduce food waste
sent to landfills and increase food
donations to food banks in the United
States.
Suzanne Fisher, CPP Biography:
Education: BS, Packaging - Michigan State University. Achievements: Hall of Fame inductee in Michigan State University’s School of Packaging Hall of Fame, Member of the Year and College of Fellows member at the Institute of Packaging Professionals, and strong supporter of packaging education.
Suzanne has spent 35 + years in the packaging profession leading teams at Herman Miller, Sam's Club, and presently at Wayfair. Packaging education - passing on key learnings and experiences to the next generation of leaders - is one of Suzanne's top priorities.
Cali Reed is the Senior Sustainability Specialist at PreZero US, a California-based recycling solutions provider for hard-to-recycle materials. Cali manages the post-consumer recycled (PCR) content certifications for plastics and works alongside the Commodity Sales team to build circularity-focused partnerships with brands, retailers, and brokers. As a major part of the business development strategy, Cali also works to uncover future expansion opportunities for PZUS by identifying untapped markets for innovations in the recycling sector.
Cali holds a B.A. in Political Science and a certificate in Environmental Studies certificate from the University of Hawaii. She’s also a certified TRUE Zero Waste Advisor through the USGBC and is a bonafide zero waste expert.
Ben Kuchler is the Director of Product and Packaging Sustainability at Hasbro and is genuinely excited to come to work every day and have the opportunity to help shape Hasbro's future as an industry leader in sustainability. He brings a creative perspective and many years of design and development experience to his role which provides innovative thinking, alternative material solutions, and a holistic approach to reduce the environmental impacts of Hasbro’s products and packaging. He is also a member of Hasbro’s Sustainability Center of Excellence, where he leads the company’s product and packaging sustainability initiatives. Prior to working at Hasbro, Ben was a Design Director at Reebok where he discovered his passion for working on kids’ products. He has an Industrial Design degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Thais Vojvodic is part of the New Plastic Economy initiative team at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which aims to bring together key players from around the world to rethink and redesign the future of plastic. With extensive experience in the private sector in Latin America, Thais joined the Foundation in May 2020 and is responsible for the development of Plastics Pacts in several different countries, including the US Plastics Pact.
Jacquie Patterson is a Senior Manager of Package Engineering for the Sustainability Team at Hasbro. In her current role, she focuses on sustainability across Hasbro’s portfolio of toy and game packaging. In particular, she is proud to help drive Hasbro’s efforts to phase out plastic from its new packaging.
Ms. Patterson has been with Hasbro for 15 years, beginning in a Packaging Engineer role before transitioning into managing Hasbro’s group of Packaging Engineers for its wide portfolio of toys and games, then most recently shifting into her current role. Ms. Patterson has driven implementation of many steps along Hasbro’s sustainable packaging journey, including the switch to bio-based PET plastic packaging and the rollout of How2Recycle® labeling on-package. She is also responsible for collaborating on broad packaging initiatives, such as packaging for e-Commerce, which helps Hasbro’s consumers save time and get to the fun faster. She has helped to drive Hasbro’s e-Commerce packaging initiative since its inception close to 10 years ago, knowing that this initiative is also making a difference for the environment.
Ms. Patterson has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Packaging Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and children – especially outdoors.
Adam is responsible for the off-the-shelf market reports business and leads the delivery on many custom market consultancy projects every year.
These projects are built upon robust and consistent secondary data and sense checked through discussions with market and technical experts. Adam spends a lot of time identifying and assessing potential sources of data, and incorporating these sources into a credible forward-looking view of the market.
Adam is experienced in project management, directing market research and working with clients to deliver high-value strategic studies and analysis. During his time at Smithers he has published or delivered hundreds of market studies, reports, technical books and single-client projects across a range of industries.
To assist with this research, Adam has developed a global network of experts, consultants and researchers who contribute to many projects every year.
Adam is a member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
He is based in Leatherhead, UK and has been with Smithers for 20 years.
Mike Riola is the Sustainability Project Manager for the Rehrig Pacific Company. He has over 20 years of experience in the injection molding industry, with an extensive background in alternative plastic materials and rigid packaging. Mike leads the team focused on all sustainability initiatives.
Mike ensures Rehrig Pacific is on the cutting edge of alternative material use. He partners with Fortune 500 and environmental waste companies to find solutions to their recycling needs. He began his career as a Plant Engineer and evolved into positions including Plant Manager and Operations Manager; he brings this hands-on knowledge to his current role.
Alexa Kielty has been working for San Francisco’s Department of the Environment’s Zero Waste Program since 2001 and has had the opportunity to help develop San Francisco zero waste policies and programs from the ground up. She has played an integral role in working with the residential sector, particularly multi-family buildings, working to get them into compliance with San Francisco’s Mandatory Composting and Recycling Ordinance. With the help of her enthusiastic team she has developed a “hands on” on approach to changing the behavior of apartment residents getting them to separate their food scraps for the City’s composting program. She is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies program with a focus on Agro-Ecology and loves being outdoors especially in the Pacific Ocean whenever possible.
Dan Felton is Executive Director of AMERIPEN – the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment. He is a well-known policy and trade association leader who has worked within the bottled water, credit card, healthcare and information management industries. He is particularly passionate about environmental, sustainability and packaging issues and has engaged extensively in those areas at the state and federal levels. He has chaired committees and led task forces for several national trade associations and has served on the board of the State Government Affairs Council (SGAC) where he is a graduate of the their nationally recognized professional certificate programs. A former professional actor and musician, he has run the finances and served on the board of a nationally recognized theatre education non-profit. He has also been involved with the Commission on Presidential Debates since 2000 in support of their quad-annual presidential and vice presidential debates. A graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, Dan lives in the Washington DC area.
Adam leads the Plastics Division’s Packaging Team, representing major U.S. resin manufacturers. He advocates for policies and initiatives that recognize plastic packaging and products as a valuable resource. He leads the Team’s efforts to achieve the ACC’s Circular Economy Commitments for 100 percent recyclability or recoverability of plastic packaging by 2030 and 100 percent reusability, recyclability, or recoverability of plastic packaging by 2040.
Speaker bio coming soon!
With a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Ohio State University, Aaron Plumley is H.B. Fuller’s Applications Engineer, Technical Service (AETS) for the End-of-Line and Beverage markets in North America. Aaron works with H.B. Fuller customers on optimizing and troubleshooting adhesive applications, as well as managing innovation projects that lead to industry developments that better serve these dynamic markets. He brings experience from his previous role as Area Technical Manager for Packaging and Paper Converting, driving continuous improvement projects surrounding application standardization and automated data collection systems to maintain high quality and efficiency standards.
Skilled in packaging and supply chain optimization, Joe Fernandez is a Senior Packaging Engineer at Vera Bradley, with a demonstrated history of working in the apparel and fashion industry.
Prior to founding Loopline, Anna gained 15+ years of experience in the fashion/retail industry and over a decade of experience in sustainability — working at global corporations, high-end avant garde shops, and launching her own eco-conscious fashion brand. She soon realized the need for a mindset change in the fashion/retail industry. She went on to evolve the “waste less” strategy used in her own brand by partnering with a start-up fashion technology company focused on retail recycling where she journeyed with them to win the H&M Global Change award in Stockholm, Sweden. She went on to create circular products/packaging, launching with Twitter, and continued to build products for global companies under her new company, Loopline. Recently, Loopline was selected as a featured innovation for STANFORD REBUILD 2020 (innovations in global solutions related to re-building after COVID-19 pandemic).
Oliver is a Director of Procurement & Packaging Engineering at Dell Technologies. In addition, he is recognized within the Dell Technical Community as a Distinguished Engineer – Supply Chain. Oliver has become one of the most influential thought leaders in the packaging industry by combining innovation, supply chain, and sustainability best practices. Under his leadership, Dell introduced industry changing materials such as bamboo, mushroom, molded paper pulp, ocean bound plastic and pollution ink at lower cost, better performance, and which are environmentally healthier.
Most recently, Dell launched Ocean Bound Plastic packaging with the aim of creating an industry response to tackle the ocean plastic crisis. By co-founding NextWave, a cross-industry consortium of like-minded companies, Dell is creating a commercially viable, and scalable, supply chain that is focused on keeping plastics out of the ocean and in the circular economy.
Oliver’s accomplishments have been highlighted for their business and social influence by The Wall Street Journal; Fast Company in their 2019 Most Innovative Companies; Fortune in their 2017 Change the World Companies; and LinkedIn in their 2017 Top Companies to Work For. Additionally, the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show recognized his pioneering work in Ocean Plastic with a Best of Innovation Award. While at Dell he has been awarded 2 US Patents with additional ones pending.
Brian Fleury is the General Manager of Facilities at WeCare Denali, LLC, a division of Denali Water Solutions, LLC. WeCare Denali specializes in Residual Management with a focus on Beneficial Reuse through composting, anaerobic digestion and other advanced technologies. Mr. Fleury has been employed by WeCare for over 20 years in various roles within the organization, including Sales & Marketing, Operations and Project Development. Since 2018, he has been leading the Facilities Group at WeCare Denali, currently operating at 17 sites throughout the United States. He is the 2021 President of the United States Composting Council (USCC) and has been on the Board of Directors for 8+ years. He is a graduate of SUNY Oswego and resides in the “Black Dirt Region” of Orange County, NY with his wife and two children.
Charles David is TC Transcontinental’s Senior Advisor – Circular Economy, where he oversees the Corporation’s efforts towards creating a more circular economy for plastics. A leader in flexible packaging in North America and Canada’s largest printer, TC Transcontinental is the first Canadian-based manufacturer to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment and has recently announced the creation of a Recycling Group within its Packaging sector. Charles David has been working in sustainability at TC Transcontinental since 2012 and was named one of the “Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leaders” in Canada by Corporate Knights in 2016.
Brent Lindberg is annoying, and he knows it. It’s more than just the corny jokes and odd quirks. With a curiosity that rivals George, Brent has the habit of relentlessly asking questions like a 5-year-old. He also has an obnoxious appetite for the unexpected (as anyone who’s seen his wardrobe can tell you).
Together these traits produce an unorthodox approach to structural packaging design which has built a culture at Fuseneo, the creative studio he started. And somehow, it seems to be working. Their incessant inquisition and boundary-pushing has been reshaping packaging experiences across retail and e-commerce for more than a decade.
Speaker bio coming soon.
Manages all aspects of the Green Learning Station program: details related to construction and maintenance, website and signage, orchestrating field trips and follow-up curriculum resources, overseeing research being conducted on the site, managing green infrastructure and food gardens, leading adult educational tours, coordinating the Green Learning Team program for secondary students, collaborating with local schools and organizations around stormwater management, food waste, and food production education and implementation.
Kylie joined the Civic Garden Center staff in August 2014. She earned a B.S. in Conservation Biology from Muskingum University and a M.S. in Environmental Studies from Ohio University. Kylie was funded by the USDA Forest Service and Georgetown University to conduct urban composting research in Edinburgh, Scotland; Washington, D.C.; and Baltimore, Maryland. While writing her thesis, she lived as a resident of the OHIO Ecohouse, a house designed to demonstrate green technology and sustainable living. Upon graduating, Kylie worked for a national nonprofit, educating over 10,000 high school students in the Cincinnati region on climate change science and solutions and facilitating leadership trainings. In her free time, Kylie enjoys playing the violin and spending time outdoors.
Mr. Yost is Vice President and Chief Technical Officer for A1 Organics, having joined A1 in 1990. Established in 1974, A1 is the Rocky Mountain Regions largest commercial organic recycling company managing in excess of 425,000 tons of organics per year including foodwaste at its 2 Class 3 Composting facilities and 3 greenwaste recycling facilities in Colorado. Bob’s experience includes product and market development, site and operations development and management, new business development, technical evaluation, permitting and regulatory compliance and project and corporate management duties. Bob has served on numerous advisory and technical boards at both state and national levels and currently serves on the United States Composting Council Board of Directors, USCC Market Development and Membership Committees, and is Chair of the Seal of Testing Assurance Advisory Committee. When not knee deep in a compost pile, he enjoys time with Karen, his wife of 50 years and hunting, fishing, and hiking in the Rocky Mountains near their home near Brighton Colorado
Scott Cassel has over 35 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors solving materials management problems. As CEO of the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), he has led the movement that built the capacity for product stewardship in the U.S. over the past two decades. Scott also developed the facilitation process that PSI uses for stakeholder engagement and consensus-building, which laid the foundation for the passage of most of the nation’s extended producer responsibility laws, including the first industry-run, government-mandated paint stewardship program. Prior to founding PSI in 2000, Scott served as the Director of Waste Policy and Planning for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, where he developed and implemented solid and hazardous waste management policies and programs. He has written extensively on product stewardship topics, including the product stewardship chapters in the Future of Packaging: From Linear to Circular and the Handbook on Household Hazardous Waste. Scott holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Dispute Resolution from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in Geology and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
Emily is Global Growth Platform Leader, Circular Economy in the Printing and Packaging group at Michelman. Emily is an active member of the ASTM committee for compostable plastics, the Food Service Packaging Institute with the Paper Recovery Alliance and Plastics Recovery Group, and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. Her expertise is on the subject of compostable coatings for packaging applications, and she has presented at several conferences on the subject.
Jay is general counsel for Cedar Grove’s composting and packaging lines of business located in Seattle, WA. He works collaboratively with public and private partners to support and grow the industry in the Pacific Northwest.
Chris is the Sustainability Director for Eastman’s Specialty Plastics business unit group. He joined Eastman in 1998 and has held roles of increasing responsibility in Environmental, Health & Safety, Technology and Business Management/Leadership. In his current role, he works across Specialty Plastic’s various markets to leverage our advanced circular recycling technologies and help customers meet their sustainability goals.
Jacob serves as the Packaging Sustainability Program Manager for HP Inc. He oversees programs that ensure HP packaging solutions are safe, legally compliant, responsibly manufactured, and which exceed customers’ sustainability expectations. Specifically, Jacob works closely with HP’s internal packaging community to meet government and customer packaging requirements around the world and to pave the way for future sustainable packaging innovation.
He is a native of Rancho Cucamonga, California and a graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a degree in Environmental Engineering.
Joe Dages helps clients successfully navigate the complex US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory requirements that apply to food, food additives, and food contact materials. He advises companies on all aspects of the premarket review requirements and pathways to market for these materials, as well as post-market compliance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), labeling, marketing, risk, and litigation avoidance issues. In addition, he provides advice to clients seeking to establish the compliance of their products in other jurisdictions, including Canada, the European Union, and South America.
Joe's practice is increasingly focused on the regulation of biopolymers and other sustainable packaging materials used in contact with food. He also helps companies that manufacture materials used in the production of animal food and feed in bringing their products to market.
Prior to and during law school, Joe worked in government relations and international affairs for a leading trade association representing the food, beverage, and consumer product industry. He leverages this background to assist trade association clients address challenging policy and legal issues. He has authored numerous amicus briefs on behalf of trade association clients.
Julia Attwood leads the Advanced Materials team at Bloomberg NEF. She writes about the emerging materials and manufacturing technologies helping to decarbonize industry. Prior to this, she was BNEF's expert in lithium-ion battery technologies, costs and supply chain. Before joining BNEF, Julia developed educational materials on energy generation systems and researched advanced polymer composites. Julia holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Alison Keane is an environmental attorney with 20 years’ experience in both the private and governmental sectors. She is currently the President and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), the association representing U.S. converters of film, foil, paper and other materials into packages for food, medical device and industrial products. Prior to joining the FPA in 2016, she was with the American Coatings Association (ACA) for 16 years and served first as Counsel and then as Vice President for Government Affairs. She was also the Executive Director, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the ACA’s product stewardship organization – PaintCare. Other employment experience includes the Environmental Protection Agency’s Headquarters office, the Maryland State Senate and private practice. Alison has her BA in Biology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and her JD from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She is admitted to the practice of law in both Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Prior to founding the the nonprofit organization, Recycle Across America® in 2010, Mitch had over 20 years experience in communications and branding, serving Fortune 500 companies, as well as small to midsized companies. She has relied heavily on those communications and branding disciplines when developing the society-wide standardized labeling system for recycling bins.
Mitch’s passion is to improve the economic viability of recycling and closed loop manufacturing to thereby expedite environmental progress. To achieve this, she created the first and only society-wide standardized labeling system and Recycle Across America® (RAA) and Recycle Across the World® (501 c3 nonprofit organizations). Additionally, Mitch and RAA have launched the celebrity led "Let's recycle right!" PSA campaign to help the public know about the standardized label solution and the need to begin to recycle properly.
Jeff has over 37 years of experience in packaging design and development. Prior to joining Sonoco, Jeff was employed for 14 years with Viskase Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty films and casings for the meat and dairy industry. Jeff joined Sonoco Products Company in 1996 as Technology Manager for the newly formed Flexible Packaging Division. In his current role, he is responsible for the global technology efforts across Sonoco’s Consumer Packaging businesses including flexible, rigid paper & closures and rigid plastic packaging. In addition to Product and Process Development, Jeff’s responsibilities include Open Innovation, Product Safety, Sustainable Packaging Design and IP Management. He chairs Sonoco’s Corporate Technology Council and serves on its Sustainability Council. Jeff also serves on the advisory board of the Sonoco Institute and chairs the advisory board of Sonoco FRESH, both at Clemson University. He holds 45 U.S. patents related to packaging.
Dr. Prakash Iyer is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Business Development at Inhance Technologies and is in charge of the global R&D, Applications and Product Development. He is the Sustainability lead for Inhance Technologies. He is passionate about science-based approach to making sustainable packaging choices through life cycle analysis, recyclability and energy, water and waste reduction initiatives. He has held various technical and leadership positions in his career that spans over 15+ years and has multiple patents to his name. Prakash completed his Ph.D. in Macromolecular Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Prakash works out of the Inhance Technologies’ corporate headquarters in Houston, TX.
Nicol leads Sustainable Packaging at L’Oreal USA, supporting local brands and operations teams build and execute roadmaps that support L’Oréal’s 2025/2030 sustainability commitment, “L’Oreal for the Future.”
Nicol has experience in packaging development in the USA and Brazil. Prior to this role, led Operations and Sustainability initiatives for Seed Phytonutrients, a former L’Oréal internal start up brand.
She has a degree in supply chain management and international business from Michigan State University.
CPG Packaging professional with over 15 years of industry experience. E-Commerce Packaging enthusiast pioneering to bring brands together to develop the future of E-Commerce through the E-Commerce Packaging Council (ECPC).
Brian Powers is co-founder & CEO of TemperPack. He cofounded TemperPack along with materials engineers James McGoff and Charles Vincent. Prior to TemperPack, Brian worked in M&A and restructuring investment banking at Moelis & Company in New York. In 2013, Brian earned a B.S. in Economics from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Brian was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2016, was an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Winner in 2018, and Inc. 30 Under 30 in 2019.
Jeff has over 30 years of experience in the refuse and recycling industry at all levels. I have been responsible for the turn around and daily operations of companies from $2 to $200 million in annual revenues.
In 2007, in partnership with my wife and daughter, we started New Day Recycling and in 2012 formed Olympic Organics LLC and acquired the key assets of a defunct composting facility in Kingston, Washington.
David Allaway is a senior policy analyst at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s Materials Management Program. Since 1989, he has helped hundreds of businesses and communities across North America to reduce the environmental impacts of materials and wastes. At Oregon, David has led efforts to develop and update the nation’s first sub-national consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions inventory, served as an invited science advisor to Wal-Mart’s Packaging Sustainable Value Network, and served as an advisor to Paul Hawken’s Project Drawdown and the New York Times bestseller Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. His current work is focused on the design and implementation of several next-generation policies and programs as Oregon transitions from end-of-life “waste management” to holistic, full life cycle sustainable materials management. David has a B.A. in physics from Carleton College, Minnesota and is the recipient of awards from the US EPA, the Association of Oregon Recyclers, and the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment.
Susan Thoman has over 25 years’ management experience within the solid waste and sustainability fields. Susan served on the Cedar Grove Composting senior management team for 12 years, where she pioneered the development of working models to create collaboration between solid waste systems and the food service value chain. In January 2017, she and several partners formed a private industry group, the Compost Manufacturing Alliance, to broaden the vision and scope of compostable products testing across North America. Susan served on the US Composting Council board from 2015-2018, and currently serves on the Recycling Foundation Board in Washington State.
Kyle Strenski is a Director of Global Business Development at UPM Raflatac. His focus is understanding the packaging challenges brands face: sustainability, circular economy, and cost pressure. He works closely with the business, R&D, and the sustainability team to provide pressure sensitive label solutions that not only meet brands’ current needs, but also those of the future.
Kyle has a Bachelor of Science in Material Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he has a green belt in Six Sigma from Villanova University, Certified Packaging Professional from I.O.P.P., and is a committee member on both Olefins and PET technical committees in the Association of Plastic Recyclers.
Susan has provided sustainability and materials management solutions to both private and public sector clients for over 30 years. She currently leads circular economy planning and recycling supply chain development projects at RRS, including the Materials Recovery for the Future project to pioneer advanced sorting of films and flexible packaging for curbside recycling. Her past work included development of The Sustainability Scorecard, an RRS assessment used by consumer brands to adapt business models, metrics, and employee training programs to meet customer demand for sustainable products and packaging. Prior to RRS, Susan founded ERS Global, a sustainability consultancy that served Fortune 200 clients with enterprise wide sustainability strategies and reporting. She began her career at the US EPA, serving in several senior roles at the Atlanta Southeast and Headquarters offices in waste management, private/public partnerships, and policy development, and was a major contributor to national environmental risk assessment methodologies and databases.
Nina Bellucci Butler is the CEO of MORE Recycling. Nina has been a visionary, leading industry, building collaboration, and shedding light on the information necessary to overcome barriers to plastic recycling for nearly 20 years. She has a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University.
Math Lambalk is Business Development Manager, Renewable Chemistries at Avantium with a specific focus on the commercialization of Avantium’s Ray Technology (plants-to-glycols technology). Prior to this position, Math held various business development positions within the different Business Units of Avantium. In addition, he has an educational background in Innovation Management (VU University Amsterdam) and Biotechnology (Wageningen University).
Yuliya has more than 16 years of experience in Strategic Marketing, Sales and Marketing Excellence Consulting, Product Management across the Chemicals, and Consumer Product Goods industries.
Yuliya joined Kraton in the Global Strategic Marketing role in April 2019. Passionate about value creation and sustainable solutions development, Yuliya recently led the global effort to develop and launch CirKular+™, a new Polymer innovation designed explicitly for plastics upcycling and circular economy.
Before Kraton, Yuliya spent seven years in BASF and six years at P&G. Yuliya earned an MBA from the University of Iowa and an undergraduate degree in International Law from Kazakh National University.
Suzanne is the voice and the vision of Shelton Group. Drawing on her extensive experience in energy and the environment – and 25+ years in the marketing and advertising industry – Suzanne provides high-level strategic insights for our clients and guidance for our research and creative departments. She regularly speaks at conferences around the country, including Sustainable Brands, Fortune Brainstorm E and the International Builders’ Show, and serves as a guest columnist for publications like Fast Company, Green Builder and GreenBiz.com.
