Meet Our Technical Experts Brochure

MEET OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTS You are supported every day by Berlin Packaging’s team of Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Warehousing & Logistics professionals.

In addition to this team, we have a complete team of technical resources who work to deliver outstanding results for you.

• Quality Division • Custom Tooling & Mold Building • Studio One Eleven Design & Engineering • Studio One Eleven Structural & Industrial Design • Studio One Eleven Graphic Design & Branding • Studio One Eleven Marketing & Research This technical team is introduced in this document.

You can access all these resources through your Berlin Packaging sales consultant.

Quality Division BRYAN MACKENZIE DIRECTOR OF QUALITY Years of Relevant Experience: 20 years Joined Berlin: 2013 Role: Leads the overall Berlin Quality System and ISO Certification. Spearheads issue resolution, implements supply-chain enhancements, and consults with customers to improve their quality systems with a focus on Lean/Kaizen, FMEA, and Six-Sigma methods.

Experience: Director of Corporate Quality at IMI Cornelius (6 years), Quality Manager at Harman Becker Automotive (7 years), Senior Quality Engineer at Lear Corporation (6 years). BS degree from Michigan State University, MBA from Wayne State University.

Senior Member of American Society of Quality, Six-Sigma Black-belt.

ANITA POAGE SENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER Years of Relevant Experience: 20 years Joined Berlin: 2005 Role: Resolves key customer quality issues, provides quality expertise, and delivers proactive support to improve the supply chain of Berlin and customers. Has a special interest in continuous improvement of supplier performance, pharmaceutical customer regulatory information, and customer training in packaging manufacturing platforms and packaging quality expectations.

Experience: Industrial Engineering degree from West Virginia University.

Certified Packaging Professional, Senior Member of American Society of Quality, Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001.

SARAH RALSTON QUALITY MANAGER Years of Relevant Experience: 13 years Joined Berlin: 2012 Role: Resolves key customer quality issues, provides quality expertise, and delivers proactive support to improve the supply chain of Berlin and customers. Has a special interest in continuous improvement of supplier performance, food safety and food processing regulations, and customer training in packaging manufacturing platforms and packaging quality expectations.

Experience: BS in Food Science/Safety from Colorado State University. Expert in food related processing, packaging, and quality management with hands on floor experience and regulatory oversight. Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Certified. Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001.

BRIDGET FITZPATRICK QUALITY ASSURANCE SPECIALIST Years of Relevant Experience: 6 years Joined Berlin: 2006 Role: Manages the On-Site Berlin Quality Lab. Measures and analyzes samples against drawings or other known standards; engages in problem solving, quality consulting, and proactive issue resolution.

Experience: Degree from University of Phoenix. Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, Certified Packaging Professional.

Quality Division Capabilities Berlin Packaging’s Quality Division has scientific resources that are available to our customers.

ON-SITE LABORATORY IN PITTSBURGH, PA • Video microscope metrology (non-contact measurement) • Leak testing • Accelerated aging • ISTA drop testing • Container vibration testing • Induction-seal evaluation EXTENSIVE SUPPORT Proactive Support Supplier Management Certifications and inspections cGMP auditing of manufacturing and warehousing • Ongoing scorecards for quality, delivery, and service

Reactive Support Robust Diagnostics Root cause analysis Independent testing • For-cause auditing of manufacturers

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Customer Technical Support

Two-Tier Resolution Process

Specification review Nonconforming Product Service Reports • All incidents entered regardless of the magnitude or source Documentation and sampling, including: • Coordination of pre-delivery sampling and tailgate sampling of the problem • Coordination of small, lot-controlled production runs • Results are linked directly to our supplier scorecards and protocol testing Corrective Action Reports • Line evaluation • A comprehensive, formal process for documentation, • Regulatory support, including: root-cause analysis, and follow-up of quality issues • CONEG/RoHS/toxics in packaging • All Corrective Action Reports must be approved by the • Letters of Guarantee/Continuing Quality Guarantees Quality team leadership • REACh information • BSE/TSE information • CRC protocols/documentation • FDA food contact information • California Transparency in Supply Chain Act of 2010 • California Proposition 65 • Conflict Minerals verification • •

Customer Training Overall quality program Incoming inspection and sampling plans • Glass manufacturing • Food safety • •

Custom Tooling & Mold Building GISELLE MOSES SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CUSTOM TOOLING Years of Relevant Experience: 11 years Joined Berlin: 2014 Role: Leads Custom Tooling project management. Handles scheduling and engineering support for development of new custom product programs. Manages program scope, specification review, drawing documentation control, and project technical support. Supports Berlin locations in western region of the country.

Experience: Packaging Project Manager at Nestle (4 years), Packaging Engineer at Kraft Foods (5 years), Packaging Engineer at Campbell Soup (2 years).

Packaging Engineering degree from Michigan State University.

STEFAN SELVOSKI SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, CUSTOM TOOLING Years of Relevant Experience: 13 years Joined Berlin: 2007 Role: Oversees Custom Tooling project management. Handles scheduling and engineering support for development of new custom product programs. Manages program scope, specification review, drawing documentation control, and project technical support. Supports Berlin locations in eastern region of the country.

Experience: Senior Graphic Designer at KMA Design (5 years). BFA degrees from West Virginia Wesleyan College (Fine Arts and K-12 Education).

JACLYN MCNALLY PROJECT MANAGER, CUSTOM TOOLING Years of Relevant Experience: 3 years Joined Berlin: 2013 Role: Oversees Custom Tooling project management. Handles scheduling and engineering support for development of new custom product programs. Manages program scope, specification review, drawing documentation control, and project technical support. Supports Berlin locations in the central region of the country.

Experience: Packaging Engineer Co-Op at Campbell Soup, Packaging Engineering degree from Michigan State University.

Studio One Eleven Design & Engineering SCOTT JOST VP OF INNOVATION AND DESIGN Years of Relevant Experience: 26 years Joined Berlin: 2003 Role: Leads design, innovation, and engineering functions at Berlin Packaging, including management of Berlin’s Studio One Eleven design division.

Experience: MFA in Industrial Design from Purdue University, dual MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Management. Scott’s area of focus is consumer packaged goods branding and packaging with a brand strategy/industrial design client list that spans categories from food and beverage to personal care to medical consumables, and includes such firms as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Pfizer, Nestle, Kraft Foods, Miller Brewing, Reckitt Benckiser, Frito-Lay, Colgate-Palmolive, Novartis, Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Monsanto, and Baxter Healthcare. Scott is a named inventor on numerous US design patents and is a member of the Industrial Design Society of America, the Institute of Packaging Professionals, and the American Marketing Association.

MARTIN RATHGEBER DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING Years of Relevant Experience: 22 years Joined Berlin: 2015 Role: Designs packaging, components, and systems, also leads and directs engineering team.

Experience: Graduate of the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Martin has a passion for getting top-notch user-centered design into production and on to store shelves.

He brings with him over 20 years of product development experience, most recently at Radius Product Development, where he was responsible for the capabilities, productivity, and growth of the Chicago engineering team. Prior to Radius, Martin was Director of Mechanical Engineering at Herbst LaZar Bell (HLB). In these roles, he provided consultation to a variety of global consumer goods firms and brands including SC Johnson, Kimberly Clark, Clorox, Proctor & Gamble, Wrigley and Kraft, as well as a broad range of firms in the medical and industrial sectors.

BRETT NIGGEL SENIOR DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 26 years Joined Berlin: 2008 Role: Designs packaging and closures. Engineers components to ensure superior manufacturing, filling, and usability.

Experience: Began his career as a journeyman injection mold maker. Upon completion of his apprenticeship, Brett honed his design and development skills working with a range of clients in the medical, personal care, household, and beverage markets. A named inventor on numerous utility and design patents, he has designed and developed closures and packaging components for clients such as Gillette, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Alcoa Closures International, and ConAgra Foods.

GIL PALMON SENIOR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Years of Relevant Experience: 7 years Joined Berlin: 2012 Role: Designs packaging and closures. Engineers components to ensure superior manufacturing, filling, and usability.

Experience: Packaging Engineer at Procter & Gamble (4 years) with experience on notable brands such as Tide, Febreze, Cover Girl, Head & Shoulders, and Pantene.

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a MS in Mechanical Engineering.

Studio One Eleven Structural & Industrial Design ANDREW SANGUINET DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Years of Relevant Experience: 14 years Joined Berlin: 2011 Role: Designs components and systems, also leads industrial design projects and teams.

Experience: Senior Industrial Designer at RedFusion Studios (4 years), Industrial Designer at IMI Cornelius (4 years). BFA in Industrial Design at the University of Kansas.

Worked in both corporate and consulting environments on projects ranging from commercial food equipment to consumer electronics to interface design for software.

Accomplishments includes projects for Nonin Medical, Bosch, Koss, PepsiCo, OTTO Engineering, Georgia-Pacific, Diageo, YUM!, Starbucks, McDonalds, and Anheuser-Busch.

LIAM HAWRY DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN – PACKAGING Years of Relevant Experience: 12 years Joined Berlin: 2005 Role: Designs packaging and leads structural design projects and teams.

Experience: BFA in Industrial Design from Syracuse University. Working for several Chicago area design consultancies, he helped launch iconic products such as the TUL line of writing utensils for Office Max and Blu-Ray Disc packaging for Sony. He has worked in many fast-moving consumer goods categories including supporting brands such as Downy, Softsoap, and Armor All. He also brought several of his own ‘green’ housewares to market through his company Normal Design.

KIERON TSE DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN – PRODUCT Years of Relevant Experience: 15 years Joined Berlin: 2014 Role: Manages and designs for industrial design projects.

Experience: BA in Industrial Design from Purdue University. The majority of his professional experience is with fast-paced product design consultancies. Some of his successful products out in the market include Shure headphones, Cottonelle Fresh Care Dispenser, Waterpik showheads, and various medical devices.

JONATHAN EZIQUIEL-SHRIRO SENIOR INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 10 years Joined Berlin: 2015 Role: Manages and designs for structural and industrial design projects.

Experience: BA in Economics from the University of Rochester and MFA in Industrial Design from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Prior experience includes working on projects designing tractors, wheel loaders and combines for he heavy-equipment division of Fiat-Chrysler; creating user-interface hardware for John Deere; and styling Sea Ray boats and yachts.

NORA FLOOD LEAD INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 5 years Joined Berlin: 2010 Role: Manages and designs for structural and industrial design projects.

Experience: Earned her degree in Industrial Design from Purdue University.

Project work includes 3M, WM Barr, Kenra, and Wholesome Sweeteners.

JON DUKE INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 5 years Joined Berlin: 2014 Role: Manages and designs for structural design projects.

Experience: BFA Degree in Industrial Design at the College for Creative Studies.

Worked at Radio Flyer and then Streng Design (2 years), helping design Whirlpool future concepts.

TIEN NGUYEN INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 6 years Joined Berlin: 2012 Role: Manages and designs for structural design projects.

Experience: BFA in Industrial Design from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design.

Prior to joining Studio One Eleven, worked at Trek Bicycle Corporation, where he had the chance to work on high end bicycle components, and CHOi Design (2 years), where he designed products for Weber Grill.

Studio One Eleven Graphic Design & Branding TONI GALABOVA MANAGER OF BRAND DESIGN Years of Relevant Experience: 11 years Joined Berlin: 2010 Role: Create branding and graphic designs, also manages branding projects and teams.

Experience: BFA in Graphic Design from California State University Fullerton.

Toni gained notable experience working with multiple blue-chip consultancies in Los Angeles on everything from outdoor advertising to international movie titles and package design. Toni has delivered compelling work for clients such as, Schawk, Walt Disney Studios, Universal Studios, Virgin Charter, and the Houston Astros.

RAFAL BIELAWIEC SENIOR BRAND DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 9 years Joined Berlin: 2014 Role: Manages and designs for branding projects.

Experience: BFA from the Illinois Institute of Art. Rafal has a proven track record designing for clients such as Turtle Wax, Ziploc, and Old El Paso.

DAVID STOKEN SENIOR IMAGING AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER Years of Relevant Experience: 29 years Joined Berlin: 2015 Role: Manages artwork production and imaging for our branding practice; creates compelling visuals for use in our design projects and marketing collateral. David also works on graphic design and branding concepts for customers.

Experience: For over 15 years, David worked as a Digital Creative Imaging Artist for Lipson Alpor Glass and Associates. David’s focus was on consumer packaging goods where he led multiple brand initiatives, translating the design vision consistently through the production process. He has supported major brands including SC Johnson, General Mills, Pepperidge Farm, Dr. Scholl’s, Kimberly Clark, Naked Juice, Jim Beam, and Blue Bunny Ice Cream.

Studio One Eleven Marketing & Research KARLI ANDERSON MANAGER OF STUDIO OPERATIONS Years of Relevant Experience: 13 years Joined Berlin: 2005 Role: Leads the corporate marketing design team and takes primary responsibility for creating tools to assist with training, prospecting, selling, and customer engagement.

Karli offers creative support to the Studio and Berlin customers using a variety of media, including video, web, and print.

Experience: BFA in Digital Film & Video Production from the Illinois Institute of Art. DANA COTT MARKETING SPECIALIST Years of Relevant Experience: 4 years Joined Berlin: 2012 Role: Manages market research capability for Berlin customers. Provides creative and administrative support to the entire Studio design team as well as manages Berlin’s social media presence.

Experience: Earned her BFA in Advertising from Illinois Institute of Art. MATT CREED MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Years of Relevant Experience: 12 years Joined Berlin: 2011 Role: Manages the visual aspect of the Berlin Packaging brand across all media.

Creates external communications while portraying Berlin Packaging in a consistent, professional manner. Responsible for company websites. Matt also works on graphic design and branding projects for customers.

Experience: BFA in Communication Design from Southern Illinois University.

ABOUT BERLIN PACKAGING Berlin Packaging is North America’s only Hybrid Packaging SupplierŽ of plastic, glass, and metal containers and closures. See PaintTheTarget.com and GreaterFaster.com for more on how the company exists to help people and companies excel.

With over 33,000 available SKUs, over 120 packaging consultants, and more than 90 sales and warehouse locations across North America, the company has the right products, expertise, and geographic proximity to help customers increase their net income through packaging products and services. Berlin Packaging supplies billions of containers and closures annually as well as warehousing and logistics services for customers of all sizes in all industries.

It is the only company in its sector to be ISO 9001 certified, to have Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) certification, and to achieve 99% on-time delivery of its shipments every month for over ten years.

Related services and specialty product divisions include Studio One Eleven custom packaging and graphic design, Berlin Global sourcing solutions, E3 profit-oriented consulting, Berlin Financial financing for equipment and capital improvements, Berlin Quality advocacy, Dangerous Goods transport, Freund Container & Supply convenience, and Qorpak laboratory supplies.

The company can be reached at 1.800.2.BERLIN, BerlinPackaging.com, and on LinkedIn and Twitter.