Lotta has a rich IKEA experience in range, home furnishing solutions and interior design, and most recently her assignment was as Better Homes Leader where she has been responsible for all CMF (colour materials and finishes) for BA Livingroom IKEA of Sweden. Lotta has proven strengths in leading and securing IKEA identity through home furnishing solutions and range development and is always curious and and passionate about creativity, customers, and their life at home needs. IKEA’s point of view on better homes is to create the dream for the many people - a home that is functional, beautiful, healthy, safe, smart, comfortable, personal, warm, family-friendly, and possible for everyone to achieve.
In her new role as a Range & Product Design Leader starting in mid-Agust 2022, Lotta will take lead of the creation of better homes throughout the range and product development process and will enable world class home furnishing solutions to enable the homes IKEA wants to be known for. Lotta brings with her many years of home furnishing experience; educated in interior design she has worked in advertising, styling, and film production before joining IKEA.
After holding positions in graphic design for Landor associates and product planning in the Office furniture industry for Haworth, FRANCOIS FARION joined his long-time industry of choice, automotive, in year 2000 for PSA-Peugeot Citroën, then joined Nissan North America in 2005 for 13 years, including responsibility for Bodycolors for the Nissan group in Atsugi, Japan from 2015 to 2018.
He has been Director of CMF (Color Material & Finishes) for Groupe Renault since 2018, based in Technocenter near Paris.
He’s married to Nathalie, with whom he had a daughter Anaïs, 22, a bachelor in Neurology, Physiology & Behavior of UC Davis, who now studies Cosmetics formulation in Italy.
Their son Mahé just started engineering at McGill in Montreal.
He’s an avid photographer, cyclist and skier. Among other Italian cars, he has owned and enjoyed a Bianco Fuji 2005 Maserati GranSport.
Paola Andrea Sanchez Cely is Sensient’s Beauty Color Innovation Manager based in Paris.
Following an extensive on boarding in which she worked through all departments including sales and marketing to acquire a complete overview of the cosmetic market and consumer needs, her research has been focused the last 5 years on innovative pigments, dyes and mineral filters for cosmetic formulations.
She holds a Chemical Engineering MSc from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Rouen and a Polymer Engineering and Cosmetic Formulation MSc from the National College of Chemical Engineering (ENSCMu).
Brian has a PhD in Genetics and over 25 years of experience in both industry and academia. In academia, Brian has worked in multiple disciplines and is the author of numerous publications. In industry, he has worked in the R&D department of a large biotech company and was routinely involved with the scaling up of research projects to large fermentations. His work has lead to several patents.
Elodie Carpentier is a biotechnology engineer with a passion for entrepreneurship and art history.
EDUCATION:
2004- 2008 University of Applied Science, Esslingen – Chemical Engineering Colours & Paints
2000- 2002 Technical College of Design, Master Craftsman’s Diploma and
State- certified designer 2002
1998- 1999 Collage of further training design, entrance qualification for a collage 1999
WORK HISTORY:
2021 – today: SUN Chemical, Color Materials
Development Inorganic Pigments for Coatings and Plastics
2018 – 2021: BASF Colors & Effects
Development Inorganic Pigments for Coatings and Plastics
2016 - 2018: BASF Colors & Effects
Technical Industry Management for Architectural Coatings
2011 – 2016: BASF SE
Technical Industry Management for Architectural Coatings
2008 – 2010: BASF SE
Pigment Development Group: Member of laboratory team, after one year with project responsibility
2008 – 2008: Diploma theses in BASF SE from March – July: “Ausarbeitung neuartiger Farbtöne mit borosilikatbasierenden Effektpigmenten”
2002 - 2004: Paint master and colour designer, Wolff, Tübingen
Working in the high-quality sector with private customers, making colour- and
design suggestions for interiors, customer advisory service and look after the trainee
1999- 2000 Paint journeyman, Wolff, Tübingen
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Aziza Gazieva is a Vice President at Fermium Research, having co-founded the company in 2018 following 6 years at Wells Fargo Securities. In early 2016, Aziza transitioned from corporate banking to chemicals equity research as an Associate Analyst on Frank Mitsch's team and was a key contributor to help the team rank in the 2017 and 2018 Institutional Investor's All-America Research Surveys. Ms. Gazieva is a graduate of New York University with a major in Economics.
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Sophie works in strain and enzyme engineering at Colorifix. She has a PhD in Synthetic Biology from the University of Nottingham. Her interests include genetic engineering, strain development and microbial fermentation applied to environmentally friendly bioprocesses. Her favourite colour is navy blue because she secretly dreams of a sailing lab!
Short Speaker Biography: Paul joined FP-Pigments Oy in 2010, as their Group Technical Director with a global responsibility for introducing their new patented Opacity Pigment to the Coatings and Plastics markets. A Graduate in Chemistry from the University of Teesside and a Fellow in the Technology of Surface Coatings, in his current role Paul is responsible for providing the technical lead for FP-Pigments and for the technical service support for FP-Pigments customers across the globe. Prior to joining FP-Pigments, Paul worked for 2 years for Imerys Minerals ltd as their coatings Technical Service Manager and for 23 years for Venator Pigments (Huntsman Tioxide) in various roles including R&D Scientist and Technical Service Manager.
Sylvia Pont graduated in Experimental Physics in 1993 at Amsterdam University. She did her PhD in 1997 at Utrecht University. From 1997 to 1999 she studied computer aids at an institute for visually disabled people. Next, she returned to Utrecht University to investigate ecological optics. In 2008 she transferred her group and equipment to Delft University of Technology. Here she was promoted to Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor, as coordinator of the Perceptual Intelligence lab (π-lab), a centre of expertise on perception and design of multisensory experiences and smart products, services, and systems, and unique for its cross-disciplinary research approach to real-world perception problems. In addition she coordinates and teaches several BSc and MSc courses in this area, including the elective lighting design, and is director of the graduate school of the Faculty Industrial Design Engineering.
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David works at Venator, formerly the Pigments and Additives Division of the Huntsman Corporation, and provides global support to the business on toxicological and product stewardship issues for its new and existing products.
He also provides technical (scientific) leadership to industry-wide trade associations, consortia and task forces involved in human health research, risk assessment, and regulatory agency interaction.
David is the Chair of the Titanium Dioxide Manufacturers Association (TDMA) Scientific Committee and CLH Task Force.
After receiving his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Sunderland, David obtained a MSc in Toxicology from Birmingham, PhD in Biochemical Toxicology from Newcastle and Post Doctoral Studies in Molecular Toxicology from Dundee.
He has been a European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) since 2008 and is a member of the British Toxicology Society (BTS).
David has over 15 years industrial experience working as a toxicologist in the Pharmaceutical, FMCG, Chemical, Retail and Consultancy sectors in the UK.
After graduating in Chemistry & Economics from Birmingham University, Reg Adams began his career at Amalgamated Metal and was later seconded to English China Clays (now Imerys), where he wrote his MBA thesis on company growth. At British Sulphur (now CRU) during the 1970s, he edited a range of publications on industrial chemicals and fertiliser raw materials. His first book Titanium & Titanium Dioxide (ISBN 0903199793) was published by Financial Times Business Books in May 1984. His seventh and most recent book Titanium Minerals: Global Industry, Market & Outlook (ISBN 9781910922088) was published by Roskill in August 2016. Reg Adams has also been retained as an expert witness in matters of commercial litigation or investment scrutiny and he has been commissioned as a speaker at more than 60 international conferences, including each of the TiO2 conferences hosted by Smithers (and predecessor companies) since 1992. He has also chaired a number of conference sessions. His company - Artikol (founded in 1977) - specialises in market intelligence and publishing on mining and chemicals. Drawing on Artikol’s extensive information database, Reg Adams compiles and edits the monthly bulletin Focus on Pigments and the quarterly TiO2 Worldwide Update. For further details, see http://www.artikol.com.
Dr. Frank J. Maile studied chemistry at the university of Stuttgart followed by a PhD at the Research Center of Pigments & Paints (FPL e.V.) Stuttgart, Germany. In 1999 he joined the pigments division of Merck KGaA in Darmstadt. Since 2011 he has been responsible for the Business Unit Coatings & Plastics of Schlenk Metallic Pigments GmbH in Roth, Germany. Since 2019 he helds the position of a Global Technical Director BU Effect Pigments. He is visiting professor for product development & design and an active member oft he section „Paint Chemistry“ within the German Society of Chemists, GDCh, Since 2015 he is a member of the advisory board of the Color Science Symposium.
Andrew Thompson is a chemical engineer and has a technical background in process and product development of metallic effect pigments for the paints, coatings, plastics, graphic arts and cosmetics industries. Formerly Pigments Technical Director at Wolstenholme International Ltd, he then worked for Eckart GmbH following the sale of the Wolstenholme business to Eckart in 2007, before becoming a shareholder and director of Colorlord Ltd.
Ronald Britton Ltd is part of the Colorlord group and supplies metal powders and glitters into a wide range of industries. In 2013, in response to environmental pressure on the use of conventional ‘plastic’ glitters, Andrew conceived the idea of Bioglitter™ as a biodegradable alternative and has led its product development since.
