Regional R&D and Regulatory Affairs experience on Home Care and Cosmetics categories, focused on House Hold and Laundry cleaning product developments and regulatory interpretation of Home & personnel care legislations.
Member of several Local & Regional Technical Committees in trade Associations (such as: ALIADA, ALPHA, SOFOFA).
Currently, He leads a regional virtual regulatory Affairs team in Unilever to implement and develop Homecare Regulatory Convergence in Latin-American.
Francisco Almeida joined Arxada in 2017 and currently is responsible for Business Development and Project Management of Microbial Control Solutions segment for Hygiene, Home and Personal Care and Materials Protection businesses.
He has 21 years of experience in creating innovation strategies, developing new products as R&D Leader and developing new businesses in B2C and B2B companies. He has worked for different market segments as HPC, Hygiene and I&I in companies as Unilever, Casa KM and Reckitt Benckiser.
Francisco is currenlty responsible to drive innovation strategies, build innovative projects pipeline, identify rising business opportunities and customers needs and also responsible for strategic project management for South American region.
Topic will be focused on the antimicrobial solutions that aid protection of public health by disrupting transmission of pathogens aligned with consumers concerns regardin sustainability.
Juliana Pantalena is an Italo-Brazilian chemical engineer who graduated in São Paulo, (BR) and who has worked in the Surfactants industry for 14 years, always dedicated to marketing and commercial activities, the development new products and applications, with a focus on market and customer needs. The first 12 years of her career were dedicated to the Agrochemicals market, working for two different Chemical companies, one in which she developed her work as an ex-pat for three years in Midland (MI). She now, works at Cepsa Chemicals, where she started in 2022, focusing on the Home and Personal Care markets, as the Global Marketing Head for Surfactants, moving to Madrid where she had this position for 2 years. Today, she is now based in São Paulo, Brazil as the Americas Commercial Director for Surfactants, leading the Americas team towards Cepsa Chemicals’ strategy of new Sustainable products, targeting the regional growth and development of the region. She enjoys traveling and getting to know new places, as well as spending time with her family and friends, reading books, and going to the movies.
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Presidente del Gremio Peruano de la Industria Cosmética e Higiene Personal (COPECOH) y Director de la Cámara de Comercio de Lima.
Ha sido Gerente de Marcas y Proyectos Internacionales en Belcorp, Brand Manager en Max Factor, Gerente de Productos en Merck Alemania y más de 40 años de experiencia profesional en la industria cosmética.
Es Licenciado en administración en las Freies Universität de Berlín. Magister en Negocios Internacionales en la Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI) de Madrid y un postgrado en Especialización Gerencial en la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).
Andre Chieffi is the Senior Manager of the Surface Science Platform at Reckitt. His team works on the development of new technologies across the Reckitt’s hygiene business including the mega brands Lysol, Finish, Vanish, Harpic and others.
Before joining Reckitt in 2020, Andre did a BSc and PhD in Chemistry (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and University of Waterloo, Canada), a postdoc in catalysis (MIT, USA) and worked for almost 20 years at P&G (R&D centers in the UK, Mexico and Brazil). As result, he has experience in several R&D areas, including surfactants, polymers, enzymes, bleach, antimicrobials, encapsulation, active delivery and catalysis.
Biological engineer and Master of Science with more than 7 years working in biotechnology processes specifically in enzyme applications at laboratory, pilot and industrial scale. Experience in developing strong customers and suppliers’ networks based on reliable communication and technical support. Decisive, hardworking, innovative and organized person focused on achieving short and long-term projects and goals.
Career Summary:
Since 2017: ALIADA Latin American Association of Hygienic and Cleaning Industry for Domestic and Professional Uses, Executive Director
-2015 up to 2017: Grupo Assa
Senior Advisor Business Consulting Operational Excellence
-1982 up to 2014: Unilever
-2009 up 2014: VP Supply Chain Southern Cone (SoCo)
-2006 to 2008: VP Supply Chain River Plate HPC & Foods (One)
-2003 to 2005: VP Supply Chain River Plate Home & Personal Products
-2000 to 2003: VP Supply Chain Argentina Home & Personal Products
