SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES DIRK ACHTEN
HEAD OF MODERN COATINGS AND ADHESIVES APPLICATIONS, COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG Dirk Achten received a PhD in 1999 from RWTH Aachen in Germany in polymer science. He started his career at Bayer AG working for the rubber business group. After achieving additional qualifications as a rubber and adhesive engineer and various jobs with increasing managerial responsibilities in the adhesive and coatings application sector, he was asked to lead a startup incubator at Covestro AG. Dirk is currently heading the R&D group of Modern Coatings and Adhesive Applications at Covestro.
KEN ALSTON
CIRCULAR ECONOMY IMPLEMENTATION EXPERT, FOUNDING PARTNER AT CIRCULARITY EDGE, LLC Ken Alston is a nationally recognized Circular Economy Implementation Expert and Founding Partner at Circularity Edge, LLC and Senior Advisor to the Circular Economy Platform of the Americas. He is the former CEO of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) where he worked directly with the co-authors of the seminal book: Cradle to Cradle – Remaking the Way We Make Things. Ken consulted with companies, universities and other organizations on the implementation of design principles for the Circular Economy. Prior to working at MBDC, from 1992 to 2000, Ken was the Director of Worldwide Sustainable Product Innovation
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KYLE ANDERSON
TS&D SCIENTIST, DOW INC. Kyle Anderson, Technical Service and Development scientist, has been with Dow Polyethylene since 2012. He currently works on developing applications in several markets spaces as the application development leader for Hot Melt Adhesives and Health, Hygiene and Medical elastomers. Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree in Materials Engineering from Iowa State University and a PhD in Polymer and Materials Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
ANDREW ANDRADE
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, ADVANCED POLYMER, INC. Andrew has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Andrew has been with Advanced Polymer, Inc. for four years. He started out as a Product Development Engineer and he formulated coatings and adhesives for many different applications like construction and flexible packaging to develop specialty adhesion promoters for low surface energy substrates. Now Andrew is the Technical Director at Advanced Polymer, Inc. where he manages the Technical Team at API.
KUJTIM BIZATI
SENIOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SCIENTIST, EASTMAN CHEMICAL Tim Bizati is a sr. application development scientist for adhesives technology at Eastman Chemical. Tim has a total of 14 years experience in adhesives formulations and applications as a technical and project leader in areas covering hot melt, solvent based adhesives, and PSAs, in the hygiene, and tape/labels markets. He was also employed by Nitto Denko and Momentive. He was the technical committee member of PSTC for nearly 2 years. He holds an MS in chemical engineering from NC state.
ORLANE BOUZARD
PRODUCT MANAGER-COATINGS, ADHESIVES & SEALANTS, ARKEMA Orlane Bouzard obtained a Chemical Engineering Degree majoring in materials at the ENSC Montpellier (France) and graduated from IAE Institute in Marketing & Product Management in 2019. Orlane is now working as Technical & Development Manager for Crayvallac® Additives (Arkema) specializing in Adhesives & Sealants applications. She has global responsibility to market players in offering technical assistance, developing new solutions & supporting growth for these evolving applications.
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