Kemin Welcomes Employees To Personal Care Division

Kemin Welcomes Employees To Personal Care Division

Kemin: hired a technical sales manager, marketing manager and research and development director for its new personal care division.

Jennifer Igou was named technical sales manager after working for the past eight years in technical sales for the company’s food technologies division. Igou joined Kemin in 1998 as a chemist and has built a successful career on her expertise in lipid chemistry and oxidation prevention. This expertise will be instrumental in her new role with the personal care division where she will not only sell Kemin products but also provide technical expertise on how to apply them for optimal results.

Marsha Bro was appointed marketing manager after working in various roles for Kemin since 2003. In her new role, Bro will be responsible for providing strategic direction for new product development and product positioning in coordination with research, sales and operations. Previously, she served as the marketing manager for the food technologies division and prior to that she managed the company’s market research department.

Satish Nayak, Ph.D., was tapped as director of research and development. In his new role, Nayak is responsible for product and process innovation, quality control and customer laboratory support for personal care ingredients. Nayak joined Kemin in 2008 as a scientist for the discovery research team, where he was the project manager for chemistry and biochemistry projects. Prior to Kemin, he worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the University of Chicago.



Xiameter: appointed Jeroen Bloemhard as business vice president and global executive director. Based in Midland, MI, he will oversee the operations and expansion of the Xiameter brand globally.

Bloemhard began his career at Dow Corning in 1991 and has since held a variety of marketing and commercial leadership positions around the globe. He most recently served as director in the company’s procurement organization and before that was business vice president and executive director of its global electronics industry business unit.



CPL Aromas Latin America: welcomed Alejandra Merino as evaluation and quality manager. She joins the R&D team at the company’s Latin America facility in Bogota, Colombia where she will be responsible for the evaluation and applications process within the company.
Merino joins CPL Aromas Latin America from Symrise, Colombia and has previously worked at Johnson & Johnson and Belcorp.



DKSH: appointed Mathias Greger as the new business unit manager for its specialty chemicals distribution business in North America. He has been working with the Swiss-based market expansion services group for the past several years, most recently leading the in-house consulting team in Kuala Lumpur.

Prior to joining DKSH, he had worked for the chemicals division of Mitsui & Co., where he was in charge of sales and business development in Central and Eastern Europe.

In his new role, Greger will focus on overall growth activities in the North American market by acquiring new suppliers, strengthening relationships with key suppliers and expanding the customer base in the specialty chemicals and personal care industries.



Harmony Labs: welcomed John Simonick as the vice president of quality. He will lead the quality organization including quality control, quality systems and quality engineering. Simonick’s experience includes most recently serving as the executive director of quality operations at Watson Pharmaceuticals, where he was responsible for all quality and risk-based decisions. He also served as vice president of quality systems for Mission Pharmacal and vice president of quality systems for DPT Laboratories.

Throughout his 30-plus year career within quality, he has served in progressive leadership roles assuming the responsibility for quality assurance, systems, validation and quality control functions.



San-Mar Laboratories: named Randy Hutt, Ph.D., as director of quality assurance. She has more than 30 years of experience in various disciplines in the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries and brings extensive experience in quality assurance, quality control and manufacturing with a focus on aseptic products.

Hutt’s experience as an independent consultant combined with her 13 years at Wyeth (now Pfizer) in different roles in QA and QC lab management, 10 years at Burroughs Wellcome Co. (now Glaxo Smith-Kline) in aseptic production management, and more than five years in QA and QC at Schering-Plough (now Merck) uniquely qualifies her to lead San-Mar in its ongoing quest for quality excellence, according to the company.

San-Mar also named Julio Lamberty as its vice president of research and development and technical services. He brings 22 years of experience in various disciplines of R&D including OTC drug formulations, skin care, personal care, hair care and fragrance. He also brings extensive experience in lab management, quality control and manufacturing. Lamberty’s prior experience includes Bath & Body Works, Victoria Secret, C.O. Bigelow, Avon, Symrise, Peter Thomas Roth and International Specialty Products.



The Consumer Specialty Products Association: added Timothy A. Brown to its Legal Affairs department. Brown will serve as regulatory counsel and division staff executive for CSPA’s cleaning products division.

Brown’s other responsibilities include management of the Regulatory Government Affairs Advisory Committee (GAAC), which oversees issues pertaining to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and nanotechnology, as well as participation on the International Affairs team, which oversees REACH and trade issues.

Prior to joining CSPA, Brown served as a senior policy advisor with the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) and as associate director, franchising and state law for the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA). He also is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the American Bar Association and the Cuban American Bar Association.



CND: hired James Banville as vice president of international sales, responsible for overseeing global distributor relationships and growth.

Prior to joining CND, Banville worked in international markets with companies such as Clorox, Kao Brands, Herbalife and Catalina Marketing. He has worked and lived in more than seven countries and speaks three languages.



H2O Plus: promoted executives Elizabeth Maul and Consuelo Martinez in the marketing and sales department.

Maul joined H2O Plus in 2008 with a solid background in prestige marketing that included Beauté Prestige International, Lancôme and Yves Saint Laurent. She most recently served as H2O Plus’ director of global marketing and has been promoted to vice president of marketing. She has been instrumental in building the global marketing team, which encompasses product development, creative, merchandising and packaging.

Martinez, previously senior international account manager, has been promoted to director, international accounts. Having joined the company more than seven years ago, he has overseen the growth of the international department.