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Ashwin Subramaniam is an environmental consultant with 11 years of business experience across Asia. He is the founder and CEO at GA Circular, a research and strategy advisory firm that is driving circular economy in Asia. He has led various materials-flow analysis, research, strategy and implementation projects on circular economy in this region. He specialises in packaging and food waste in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and India and has worked with multinational clients from consumer goods, packaging and petrochemical industries as well as government agencies. He is passionate about unlocking business opportunities in Asia from the annual USD120 billion worth of packaging waste and USD 1 trillion worth of food waste globally.
Gary Calicdan is the Packaging and Print Ethical Buyer of Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics North America . Joining the company in February 2007, he has seen the business grow from 80 shops to over 250 shops. Along with growing the supply chain, Gary has led many initiatives to improve our ethics and sustainability in our packaging supply chain such as use of 100% recycled plastics and paper for all packaging and print materials . Gary has also focused on developing a local high quality recycled plastic materials supply base including Ocean plastics and created closed loop systems through retail and manufacturing operations wherever possible.
Gary is currently a council Director of The Packaging Consortium ( PAC) under Pacific Region Leadership Council based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Prior to migrating to Canada in 2006, Gary was the Purchasing Manager of ALCAN Packaging and Avon Cosmetics back in the Philippines from 2001 to early 2006.
Jiang Nanqing, PhD in ecology, graduated from Beijing Normal University. In her professional field, she’s got an academic background in ecology and environment, and worked extensively with research institutions to achieve significant results in promoting the effects of policy on the transformation of scientific results. She worked in universities and international research institutions in Netherlands, Japan, Israel, and Kenya for more than 7 years and was engaged in post-doctoral and research in agroecology.
She joined CPRRA in Oct. 2018, and took CPRRA as the first China Sectoral Association to join Global Commitment raised by Ellen MacArthur Foundation and UNEP of “ New Plastics Economy” in late 2018. She also serves the external expert of EU-China Environmental Policy and Circular Economy Dialogue, WWF International Consultant on Platics. She was invited by China Delegation to WTO to attend first WTO event on plastic pollution, she was invited by EU to attend EU Circular Economy Conference and World Circular Economy Conference. She also the author of newspaper and magzine articles on Plastics, and was interviewed by media and CGTN. She is the leading figure in plastic recycling sector in China.
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Quentin is responsible for leading the implementation of market strategies to grow the consumer packaging paperboard business in the Asia Pacific region. Quentin has been with the company for 30 years, with experience in packaging innovation, marketing, and business development. He resides in the U.S., but travels frequently to the Asia Pacific region.
Sharon holds a master's degree in sustainable development management and has 11 years of management experience in the field of sustainability. She has worked in environmental NGO, consulting company and manufacturing industry. Through innovative sustainability related programs, as well as internal and external strategic communication, she provides technical and strategic support to create business value and competitive advantage for the businesses. Extensive practical experience in environmental- friendly materials, life cycle assessment, responsible supply chain management, environment and sustainability related certification systems, and stakeholder communication.
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For many years Ms Zsakay worked in the food industry, setting up Asia Connect (Korea) to import food from Australia, New Zealand and the EU. In later years Ms Zsakay established the Asian Food Regulation Information Service, the world’s largest free access database of Asian food regulations.
Ms Zsakay has a BA(Asian Studies & Politics) from the University of Western Australia and has studied International and Asian food law from Michigan State University.
After moving to Thailand from South Korea, Ms Zsakay became interested in infrastructure design for recyclable resource recovery collection systems, initially as a hobby. From there it was an easy transition to the Circular Economy and the founding of Circular Economy Asia Incorporated (CEA) in 2016.
CEA leads the discussion across the region on improving resource management, educating consumers, working with product brand owners and all tiers of Government who must respond to the global pressures of growing resource scarcity and overwhelming waste. We focus on how circular design values and principles can improve lives, add value by future-proofing businesses against resource scarcity and promote new circular industries.
Richard Fine is the Founder & Sustainability Director of BioPak, an award-winning and leading supplier of carbon neutral, compostable single-use packaging. The business was born out of combining Richard's 30 years of industry expertise with his passion for sustainability. He is also a founding member of the Australasian Bioplastics Association and actively involved in a number of industry working groups to cut waste to landfill and find more sustainable alternatives for the foodservice industry and beyond.
Richard and BioPak are using business as a force for good to educate the public about plastic pollution and the detrimental impact finite fossil-fuel based plastics have on the planet. Since the inception of the business in 2003, he has been continuously driving new innovative products and services to contribute to solving the problem and saving the environment for future generations.
Sylvain Rannou holds a PhD of Polymer Science & Engineering from The University of Manchester, UK.
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Sumangali Krishnan, is the Head of Research at GA Circular (GA) and has developed and led various research, policy and on-ground projects aimed at developing a Circular Economy framework for Asia. Following a career in corporate law, both in private practice and more recently, in start-ups and emerging businesses, Sumangali is currently following her passion for sustainability with her role at GA.
Sumangali has a J.D. in Law and a Masters in Economics, and has lived and worked in the United States prior to moving to Singapore. She is particularly passionate about policy, legislation and business-led interventions as a solution to resource management in Asia
Dr Casper Durandt was a founder member of numerous Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Companies, Chairman of the PET recycling company PETCO, founder member of the Glass Recycling Company and MetPac-SA. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering focused on coupled manufacturing efficiency improvement. He has an MBA from the University of Stellenbosch, a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Pretoria University and is a qualified Professional Engineer with the International Engineering Council.
Casper is an accomplished international speaker, has a passion for the environment and is a technical expert in the field of beverage production, supply chain, environmental issues and equipment maintenance.
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He is responsible for a range of Smithers reports including the Global Corrugated Market, the Global Folding Carton Market, Central and Eastern European markets for corrugated and folding carton, Packaging in the Middle East, Retail Ready Packaging, Luxury Paperboard Packaging and many others. He has contributed to the Smithers reports on the Global packaging Market and the Global Printing Market, among others, whilst also building in-house databases on the global paper and packaging markets.
.Yun-xuan Weng's research is mainly focused on durability, degradation and sustainable development of polymeric materials. He acts as secretary-general of the Degradable Plastic Committee of CPPIA of China, and also as secretary-general of the Technology Committee of Standardization of Biobased and Degradable Materials.
He organized to formulate a number of national standards for food direct contact packaging materials, such as plastic wrap, plastic shopping bags, continuous roll bags, disposable tableware and other national standards. He promoted the establishment of the standard of bio-based materials and biodegradable plastics industry standard system and promoted the production and application of industrial scale.
More than 60 periodicals, such as SCI and EI, are published, and 20 national standards and 2 books are made. The project includes the national natural fund project, the national quality inspection public welfare project and the support plan of the Ministry of science and technology. 2 awards were awarded for the standard innovation contribution of General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine, and 3 of the scientific and technological innovation awards of China National Light Industry Council.
Ben is the CEO and Secretary General of PEFC International, a position he has held since 1999.
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Yi is responsible for global ecommerce & business development based in Amcor’s headquarters in Zurich. Yi joined Amcor in 2008 and held multiple roles in marketing, innovation and business development based in USA and Europe. Yi’s packaging and market knowledge span across diverse end-use segments and across rigid, flexible packaging and folding cartons. Her passion is connecting the dots between market insights and solutions to drive growth for Amcor and its customers.
Prior to Amcor, Yi previously worked for Philips in retail marketing and management in China.
Yi holds an MBA from Henry B. Tippie School of Management, The University of Iowa, USA.
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Ciaran is Global VP of Business Development and Director of Operations for Asia - Pacific. He is responsible for delivering Smithers global growth initiatives and supporting Smithers Asian client base.
Ciaran has been working for Smithers for nearly twenty years supporting the packaging, print and paper value chains with key market and technical information in the form of conferences, reports and consulting. Ciaran has worked on winning and delivering a wide range of market consultancy projects to major industry players, recent projects include a global assessment of printing and packaging growth trends and market assessment for a major new product launch for one of the world’s largest packaging converters.
Ciaran has launched and managed many international conferences in this sector including Digital Print for Packaging, SustPack, Specialty Papers and Print Futures.
Doug has worked within the food industry for over 30 years and most recently with Associated British Foods plc (ABF) with time spent as the Head of Procurement for British Sugar, Group Procurement Director for George Weston Foods Australia/ New Zealand and Global Category Leader, Packaging working directly for the parent company ABF. Prior to his time with ABF Doug led a number of Procurement roles with Britvic Soft Drinks plc as well as working in Government Procurement having started his career in Food Retail with J Sainsbury plc.
At ABF Doug leads a small team of regionally based Packaging Category Leaders and spends much of his time working with the many companies within the ABF group on a whole range of subjects including sustainable packaging.
When not at work Doug is a keen road cyclist and enjoys spending time at home with his fam
Phan BAI is the senior corporate business development director at Veolia for the Circular Economy presently specialized in plastics particularly packagings. He has 20 years of experience in the Environmental Service industry from water infrastructure to waste recycling in developed and developing countries. Before joining the global plastic business development, he has acted as project developer, innovation director and general manager for Veolia in Taiwan, Japan, USA and Canada. In his current position, he is namely developing plastic collection, recycling and integrated waste projects as well as global and local partnerships with private and public sectors, with a focus on innovative schemes and new business models.
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Philip Wirsen is a Global Strategy & Channel Leader at Tetra Pak. He helps food & beverage manufacturers and retailers identify opportunities to differentiate, optimize their supply chain and improve their sustainability by producing data-driven analysis and cost benchmarking. He also leads the global Ecommerce & Foodservice strategy.
Before his time at Tetra Pak, Philip spent three years at the Copenhagen Business School and has a degree in International Business & Politics.
With 17 years experience at Avery Dennison in marketing, innovation and business leadership, Renae has broad experience in packaging and labeling across multiple consumer categories, and both global and local packaging expertise. She has extensive international experience and has been based in both The Netherlands and the United States. Renae serves as a Global Sr. Director of Sustainability at Avery Dennison with her mission to drive long term systemic change through innovation, employee engagement and delivering positive business results.
Duan Yanjian holds a master’s degree in packaging engineering, graduated from Jiangnan University. Now he’s responsible for logistics and packaging technique in JD Logistics. In 2017, he has launched “Green Stream Initiative” with several brands which aims to promote green and sustainable development of the end-to-end supply chain (B2B2C) along with upstream and downstream enterprises.
Besides, he has founded green corrugated packaging alliance and e-commerce packaging standard alliance in order to promote e-commerce packaging standard and industrial certification, also remodel supply chain packaging of e-commerce.
He has been involved in the drafting and revising of dozens of national/industry packaging standards.
Education: Ph.D. Packaging from Michigan State University. Activities: Asia-Pacific Division Chair, ISTA. Vice-president of Korea Packaging Professionals. Convenor of ISO TC122 (Packaging) WG16 (Temperature controlled product packaging).
Kang Li holds a master's degree and the position of technical director and laboratory director of the Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of the Postal Service of State Post Bureau. She's also the authorized officer of the recognized fields of seals, packaging, container supplies and equipment of postal industry.
Besides, she is technical leader of green packaging technology research and development center of postal industry, the head of Green Development Research Center of China Post Research Institute and Green Packaging Innovation Lab of China Post Group.
She has been engaged in the formulation of standards for packaging products in the field of postal and express delivery, research on soft science development. She presided over the revision of the national standard "Express Packaging Products", which incorporates green environmental protection indicators, packaging recycling and biodegradable plastics of express packaging products into national standards.
She is the sub-project leader of National NQI project “the Key Technology of Green Logistic”. Besides, she has been involved in the drafting of the national standard “Express Waybill”, industry standard “Postal Electric Tricycle Technical Requirements”, “Postal Packaging Tape Part 2: Biodegradable Tape”, “Express Container Part 2: Container Bags”; Industry Standards of the Ministry of Commerce “Technical Requirements and Management Specifications for Green Packaging Materials and E-Commerce”.
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Richard Horne is the Vice President Marketing Centre Packaging at Borouge since June 2018.
Jasmine joined P&G after graduating from College of Biology, Nanjing University in 1999, and now serves as Premium Packaging Discovery Technology Director of Asia Advance Package Technology Development – Premium Package CMF Technology & E-coms package holistic solution. Before that she held multiple positions at P&G globally, including Great China FemCare R&D Product Research Section Head, and Northern East Asia &Great China R&D Pantene /Vidal Sassoon Franchise Manager etc.
With rich consumer research knowledge in FMCG , as well as 16 years’ experience in China/ Asia franchise innovation, Jasmine is also a consumer research expert and China consumer insight expert.
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Sophia is leading the BOBST Marketing & Communication activities across the APJ region. Located in Shanghai she supports printers and converters as well as brand owners to create a more agile and more sustainable packaging production across the entire supply chain. She strongly believes that digitalization, automation and connectivity are the main drivers to shape the future of packaging production. Before joining BOBST, Sophia was the regional Marketing Manager in Large Format and Industry Printing at HP. She worked as well for cloud computing industry in Australia and owns a Master’s degree in Management of Business Administration
Wouter Sieben, originally from the Netherlands, graduated from University in Australia with a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Software Engineering, with a Graphics and Imaging major.
After nine years working in and managing production, Wouter moved to a solutions reseller to specialise in large format inkjet devices, training in all aspects of colour management from litho press profiling through to digital inkjet colour matching.
During the mid 2000’s, Wouter moved into branding and packaging, joining an international design agency to work on print technology and colour strategy to realise designs into production. This eventually led Wouter to become Lead Print Production Manager for Procter and Gamble, being based in Singapore, managing technical requirements between design and print production across four categories throughout Asia, Pacific, Japan and Korea.
In 2012, Wouter joined HP in Singapore taking care of the applications and colour management team, engineer and customer training.
From 2016, within HP, Wouter turned his focus back to packaging, as the Business Development and Category Manager for Industrial Packaging Solutions, as well as various special integration and workflow projects for Packaging and digital press customers.
Most recently, Wouter’s career took an exciting shift again by joining EFI late in 2019 as the Nozomi Sales Development Manager for Asia Pacific.
