Global Head of Cleaning

OCS

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In 1995, Yvonne Taylor began her journey in the facilities management sector as a cleaning operative, swiftly working her way up to Operations Manager which incorporated cleaning, catering and security within the Healthcare and Education sector. She then progressed to a Head of Soft Services role within all sectors including, Government, Retail, Destinations, Business and Industry and Aviation. Yvonne has been with OCS since September 2015 and her work throughout the pandemic proved crucial for all the 12 territories serviced by OCS Group to continue operating, safely and securely globally. Yvonne took on the role of Global Head of Cleaning in August 2020 and is now solely responsible for the Global Cleaning Strategy as well as provided her vital industry knowledge and support in the overall OCS Group Strategy.Yvonne is the current Chairperson of the BSA (British Services Association) cleaning committee, she is a BICSc (British Institute of Cleaning Science) Council Member, a Board Director of the CSSA (Cleaning and Support Services Association) and is a Chartered Practitioner of the WCEC (Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners). In December 2019, the NHS decided to rewrite their national standards of cleanliness, as an industry leader Yvonne was invited to become a workstream lead on this project, the new NHS National Standards of Cleanliness were launched in 2021.

Global Sustainability & Product Marketing Manager

Liquibox

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Alexis Swanson drives global sustainability initiatives at Liquibox, advancing the company’s mission to create a safer and more sustainable future. She is passionate about engaging with internal and
external stakeholders on innovative solutions to address corporate sustainability goals. Her role in sustainable flexible packaging enables Alexis to positively impact a wide range of industries from food and beverage to cleaning and personal care.

Product Development Packaging Specialist for the Liquid Division

McBride

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Aymerick Leteneux is French native and has received his bachelor in Engineering in 2013. Since then he has worked in the packaging environment starting as field service engineer for packaging
equipment. He was based in the United States for 4 years and moved back in Europe to join McBride in 2020. He is locally based in Belgium and brings added value for sustainable project across the group as a packaging specialist for the liquid division.

Director Sustainability & Circular Economy

Deloitte

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Maarten is director within the sustainability team of Monitor Deloitte. He has 20 years of experience in dealing with sustainability challenges and has worked for leading organizations in industry,
academics and government. He helps private and public organizations to develop their strategies and improve their performance with respect to resource efficiency, climate change and circular economy.

Head Of Sustainability, Flexible Packaging

Mondi Group

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Fabio’s career in packaging started in 2008 with Alcan Packaging. An environmental chemist by training, Fabio was the first full-time sustainability professional for Alcan’s Global Pharma business.
After the acquisition by Amcor, Fabio held sustainability roles with increasing responsibility and scope, and played a key role in embedding packaging sustainability and design for recycling in
Amcor’s growth strategy. Today, he is the Head of Sustainability at Mondi, based in Vienna Austria.
In this role, Fabio oversees the product sustainability and circularity strategy for Mondi Flexible Packaging business, which comprise kraft paper, functional paper and plastic packaging solutions.
Fabio holds a Master degree in Environmental Science from the Swiss Federal School of Technology.

Head of Applied Innovation EMEA for the PL Cleaning Solutions

Evonik Operations GmbH; Division Nutrition & Care

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Dr. Alexandra Trambitas was born in Romania in 1983. She received her Ph. D. in Chemistry from TU Braunschweig University and subsequently joined Evonik Industries in 2010. Her first position was
Head of Silicone Product Development for Care Applications located in Essen. After six years, in the year 2016, she moved to Hanau to join the BL Household Care as Innovation Management Manager.
From 2018 she is heading the Applied Innovation group for all cleaning applications in the EMEA region within the Care Solutions business line.

Director of Sustainability

A.I.S.E

Virtuality

Since 2005, Sascha Nissen has been working with A.I.S.E., the international Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products in Brussels. He is mainly involved in the development and
implementation of A.I.S.E.’s strategy on Sustainable Development, covering a wide range of activities for the industry sector in Europe; these include the industry’s flagship initiative ‘A.I.S.E.
Charter for Sustainable Cleaning’ and other industry voluntary schemes such as on social respon-sibility and the circular economy. The area of his activity comprises also to contribute to the industry sector external affairs related to global and EU sustainability policies, such as the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sascha Nissen, Director of Sustainability, A.I.S.E Sascha studied Political Science at the University in Bonn, Germany, and was working in parallel in the German Parliament as Parliamentary Assistant. After his graduation as Magister Artium, M.A., he worked as Consultant for Public Relations and Public Affairs firms in Germany and Brussels.
Sascha has been a speaker and moderator at numerous international symposia and congresses across Europe.
He is convinced that there is no other choice than working together – policy makers, civil society, incl. NGOs and industry – to find solutions for the burning issues we are confronted with today.
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals!

Laboratory Manager R&D, Global Research Center Surfactants

Clariant

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Adriana Grossmann is Scientist of the Global Research Center Surfactants in Clariant’s Business Unit Industrial & Consumer Specialties. She is located at the Clariant site in Burgkirchen, Germany. Adriana holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, working on the total synthesis of natural products. In her current role she is part of Clariant’s surfactants synthesis team targeting many different applications (Personal Care, Industrial & Home Care, Crop Protection, Paints & Coatings, Oilfield and Mining) with particular focus on sustainability transformation.

Business Development Manager
Home Care and Professional Cleaning
Specialty Surfactants

ARKEMA

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Najwa’s career in professional cleaning started in 2005, during her first job for distribution of cleaning detergents to the professional cleaning sector.
She built up her experience in raw materials starting 2008 with a distribution of chemicals raw materials all over Middle East; Across the years
she earned a good experience in different sectors such as ink, plastics, cosmetics, Personal Care and Home Care.Today, Najwa is the Business Development Manager for the Home Care and professional cleaning at Arkema; based in France ,
her role is to contribute to the international development of the global commercial and technical activities in coordination with the R&D, sustainable, regulatory and communication team.
Najwa holds a bachelor’s degree in general chemistry and a Master’s degree in Marketing and Communication from ESCP business school, France.“Today there is no alternative to sustainable development and that’s why sustainability is the current key driver for any new innovation” Najwa Nassif

Vice President, Corporate and Business Development

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Jeff is a seasoned deal exec with more than 25 years of transactional experience; initially as an attorney, and since 2005 in corporate development. A lifetime resident of the Bay Area and recent transplant to London, the focus of his work was in the technology sector until moving to The Clorox Company in late 2016. Jeff believes in proactively establishing relationships across the industry in order to help establish strategic alignment; finding that deals built on strategy tend to be the most successful; while those driven via a financial exercise or another motive do not tend to be as successful. Jeff lives in London now, with his wife of 22 years with 1 daughter at NYU and the youngest finishing secondary school this year.