Dr. Alice Di Gioia is the Market Manager, Fine & Specialty Chemicals and Polymers, for Waters Corporation (Milford, Massachusetts, USA). She has over 25 years experience in the chemical analysis industry. Before joining Waters, Alice was employed in Central Analytical Laboratories with Ashland Chemical (Columbus, Ohio), Cabot Corporation (Billerica, MA) and Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Allentown, PA) where she managed NMR, chromatography and mass spectrometry labs and cross-functional teams focused on problem-solving for customers. She obtained her doctorate in Physical & Theoretical Chemistry from the City University of New York.

Dr David Karsa is a graduate of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), having specialised in organo-fluorine chemistry for his doctorate. He worked for 33 years in the surfactant and related speciality chemicals sector until retirement in 2003 at which time he was Research & Technology Development Manager for Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry. He has particular expertise in the formulation and application of surfactants not only in the household, I & I and personal care sectors, but also in the agrochemical and many industrial areas. Based outside Manchester, UK, he now runs his own surfactant and speciality chemicals consultancy, TensioMetrics Limited.

Ph D in Organic Chemistry, Münster 1992Degussa AG, Goldschmidt Home Care, Essen, GermanyHead of Development and Applied ResearchWorked as Management Consultant: McKinsey & Co, Inc, Düsseldorf Dicke & Wicharz GmbH, NeussJoined Th. Goldschmidt AG 1993.

Dr. Gerd Reinhardt, born in Germany in 1953, received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1982. After one year as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nevada, he joined the Surfactants and Auxiliaries Division of Hoechst AG (since 1997 part of Clariant GmbH) in Frankfurt, Germany in 1984. In his current position as R&D Manager, Dr. Reinhardt is responsible for Clariant´s bleach development group.

Dr. G. Bognolo studied theoretical Chemistry at the University of Trieste (I). After a brief period of duty in the Technical Services of the Italian Air Force he moved to the Procter&Gamble European Technical Centre in Brussels and later-on to the European Headquarter of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). There he occupied different position in the technical development of surface-active agents, in commercial services and in business development, including licensing and acquisitions. In 1991 he became Business Manager Europe for industrial surfactants and while in this function he was part of the due diligence team during the acquisition of the Unilever specialty business by ICI. He was then appointed Director of Innovation in the newly created Uniqema business and afterwards Global Product Manager for the Uniqema alkoxylates derivatives.He left ICI in 2002 for his own company, WSA Associates s.p.r.l., an independent consultancy business focused on technology development in fine chemicals and surface-active agents.

Dr. Bognolo holds a MBA from the Ecole Solvay (Brussels) and is the author of several articles on the marketing and technical applications of surface-active agents. He is a Member Founder and a Board Member of the European Institute for Industrial Leadership (www.eiil.net) where he is the Director of the tutorial programme dealing with business leadership in multicultural environments. He is also a Board Member of the Belgian Senior Consultants (BSC), the General Secretary of the Confederation of European Senior Experts Services (CESES), Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Teknoscience ChimicaOggi/Chemistry Today and a Member of the Technology Advisory Board of a major non-European Chemical Company. He is a regular lecturer to the Master in Business and Management EFCM program at the University of Padova (I) and at the Continuous Education Courses in Surfactants, University of Pretoria (South Africa).

Dr. Bognolo is married with two grown-up children. His hobbies are the restoration of

antique oil paintings and history readings.

Dr James Bullock studied Chemistry and Applied Physics at University of Durham, UK, and achieved a doctorate in Materials Science at University of Oxford, UK in 1988. Held a variety of R&D positions with speciality chemicals companies in UK before moving to BASF in 1996, specialising in formulations, colorants and biocides. Worked for BASF both in UK and Germany, spending several years responsible for the marketing of biocides into various industries including household and personal care. Led BASF's global development function for biocides encompassing R&D, technical marketing and regulatory activities for BASF's biocides range. Served for several years as a member of the board of AgION Technologies (USA). Currently CEO of Intelligent Formulation Ltd, a not-for-profit company set up to deliver the new Formulation Innovation Network, which is industry led and has the objective of creating and adding value for companies by accelerating product innovation across a range of industry sectors including Home and Personal Care and Pharmaceuticals

Karl Lintner was born in 1948 in Salzburg, Austria, finished High School in 1966 near Vienna, then went on a one year scholarship to LA, California. Back in Austria, he started to study Chemistry at the Technical University of Vienna from where he obtained a Diploma (MSc) in Chemical Engineering in 1973. With a scholarship from the French Government, he then started Research work for a thesis on Biological Peptides at the Nuclear Research Centre in Saclay, France, which he completed in 1975 with a PhD in Biochemistry defended at the same Technical University of Vienna. Having secured a position as Research Scientist at the « Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique »(CEN Saclay), he authored and co-authored more than 30 papers and conferences on biochemistry and biophysics of biologically active peptides. In 1983 he joined the HENKEL Company in Düsseldorf, Germany where he worked for the Department of Sanitation in Food Industry, first as Laboratory, then as Marketing Manager (product development and worldwide technical support). After a one year mission to the US, and a return to France in 1990, he became Technical Director at SEDERMA where he was in charge of product innovation and development that had become especially urgent after the animal extract crisis (“mad cow”) that shook the industry. Among other ideas, he introduced peptide technology to cosmetic application. He is named on more than 30 patents in the field. In 1997 he became Managing Director of SEDERMA when the company was acquired by CRODA, a position he held for 10 years. Until 2010 he was Technical Advisor to the Enterprise Technology Division of CRODA which encompasses Sederma, Crodarom and other Front-End Innovation Centers. Presently he works as Consultant in his own company Kal’idees. Karl Lintner, an avid lover of classical music, of books and of hiking in the mountains, has also other activities in the professional area: he is Member of the Advisory Board of Société Française de Cosmétologie (SFC), Member of the Advisory Board of Cosmetic Valley, Member of COSA (Committee of Scientific Affairs) of the US-SCC, Member of the Board of Directors of EFfCI (European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients), Member of the Advisory Board of MEDEF (employers’ association) of Yvelines Sud and Member of DGK (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftliche und Angewandte Kosmetik)

Karlheinz Hill, born 1955 in Bayreuth (Germany), studied Chemistry at the University of Würzburg. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1984 he spent one and a half years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot (Israel). In 1986 he joined Henkel KGaA in Düsseldorf and worked three years in the organic chemistry research group in the field of alkyl polyglycosides. The next two years he spent at the Henkel Research Corporation in Santa Rosa, California, working on carbohydrate derivatives. After returning to Düsseldorf he was involved in various projects in the chemical research division in the areas of organic chemistry, oleochemistry and surfactants. In 1995 he was appointed head of Research Oleochemistry and in 1998 head of Research Chemical Products at Henkel. Along with the carve out of the chemical products business of Henkel in the independent entity Cognis in 1999 he moved to the Cognis Corporate Research Organization and in 2000 to the Care Chemicals Business Unit of Cognis, where he is Global Director of the Care Chemicals Technology Organization.

Dr. Mark Stalmans graduated in 1983 as Agricultural and Chemical Engineer at Leuven University and obtained a Ph.D. in colloidal and interphase chemistry in 1986. Since 1987, he works at Procter & Gamble in Brussels, where he managed environmental and human safety programs as well as regulatory, lifecycle analysis and sustainability assessments for a diverse range of laundry and cleaning products. He has been Council Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) from 1994 until 2000. Since 2001, he works in the external relations department of the Fabric and Home Care Global Business Unit of Procter & Gamble and heads the West European communication and stakeholder programmes for sustainable innovation and on-line scientific communication (via www.scienceinthebox.com and www.info-pg.com).

Rainer joined Pentapharm in 1982 as a research chemist. In 1987 he became Head of the R&D group “Natural Ingredients” that developed active compounds or fractions derived from natural products for cosmetic, diagnostic and pharmaceutical applications. In 1992 he was promoted to Vice President.In addition to his research activities Rainer played a leading role in the establishment, implementation and further development of the Pentapharm innovation process consisting of idea management, project management and product management. He chaired the steering committee of the Business Unit Cosmetics, and was responsible for the configuration of the corresponding project roadmap and portfolio.Over the years Rainer has acquired a certain expertise in skin biology and care, especially in dry skin management. He co-edited the book “The essential stratum corneum” and has published several papers on epidermal serine proteases and their inhibitors, free radicals and antioxidants.After the acquisition of Pentapharm by DSM in 2007 he has exclusively focused on skin research

With a marketing and communication background, Valérie Séjourné started a career with Unilever's Corporate and Environmental Affairs Department in Kingston (UK). After some time with the French Energy and Environment Agency in Lyon (France) as Communications Manager, she joined A.I.S.E. (the International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance products) in 1997 in Brussels, to coordinate the development and implementation across Europe of a major voluntary industry initiative: the A.I.S.E. Code of Good Environmental Practice. She then took over the management of A.I.S.E.'s communication activities, ranging from the organisation of activities at corporate level (organisation of Information Days, congresses, etc) and at project level, with the development by A.I.S.E. of several new voluntary initiatives in the field of chemicals safety (such as the HERA project) or sustainability (such as the Charter for Sustainable Cleaning) . As Director Communication Affairs at A.I.S.E., she is involved in supporting with her team the vast majority of the European detergent and maintenance products industry's priorities, in close interaction with A.I.S.E. 's members and external stakeholders.

Zoe Diana Draelos, MD, is a board certified dermatologist in private practice and a Primary Investigator for Dermatology Consulting Services, a company she founded in 1988 to provide education, develop formulation technology, and conduct clinical studies in association with the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry. Her research interests include cosmetics, toiletries, and biologically active skin medications. A national and international speaker, she has been the recipient of numerous research grants and served as Principal Investigator on more than 200 clinical trials. She is also a contributor to the medical literature, with more than 200 articles and 25 book chapters to her credit. She is the author of the text Cosmetics in Dermatology, now in its third edition, and Hair Care, as well as serving as the editor for the textbook Cosmeceuticals, which has been translated into 5 languages. Complementing her writing endeavors, Dr. Draelos serves on 8 editorial boards, including Cosmetics & Toiletries, Cosmetic Dermatology, The International Journal of Cosmetic Science, Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology Times, Aesthetic Dermatology News, Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, Drugs and Dermatology, Cutis and the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology.Dr. Draelos is a fellow and past board member of the American Academy of Dermatology and also holds membership in the American Dermatological Association, the Society for Investigative Dermatology, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, among others. She is a past board member for the Society for Dermatologic Surgery. A former Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Draelos has been the recipient of many awards and honors in recognition of her professional and academic accomplishments. She was recently given a Lifetime Achievement Award for her research from Health Beauty America, a professional skin care and cosmetics industry organization.