Biography to follow.
Leela is part of the New Plastic Economy innovation team. She uses her technical background to assess emerging innovation opportunities within the plastic packaging sector, specifically focusing on the exciting innovation and business potential offered by upstream solutions.
Vice President of Global Packaging Research, Development and Innovation leading packaging development, innovation, sustainability, productivity and design across all markets, categories, and brands for Mondelez International - one of the world’s largest snack companies. Our Mondelēz International mission is to “Lead the future of snacking by offering consumers the right snack for the right moment made the right way”.
Based in East Hanover, NJ, Jay leads a diverse and dispersed team of scientists, engineers, designers, and business leaders charged with growing the Mondelez International business – both top- and bottom-line – through packaging innovation, design and technology development. He also serves as the global capability leader for design – both creative and execution.
Prior to joining Mondelez, Jay served as Avery Dennison’s Global Vice President of Innovation; Unilever’s Global Vice President Packaging Development and Design - supporting all brands in all markets for Unilever across home care, personal care, laundry, food, beverages, ice cream, and food solutions ; Vice President of Packaging Development, Innovation, Technology, and Quality at General Mills; Director Global Packaging Development & Design at the Coca-Cola Companies, Sr. Manager Integrated Product and Process Development at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer at McDonnell Douglas Aerospace.
As a trained editor Susanne Haase has been enthusiastically reporting for more than 15 years on the international pulp and paper industry. For many years she was responsible for journals including IPW (International Paperworld), Paperazzo and Biofibre Magazine as Editor-in-Chief. In addition, the native German has been working as chief reporter for apr (Current Paper Review) until recently. In numerous editorials, Susanne has underlined the importance of cross-value chain collaboration to drive further circularity and benefit from fibre-based products’ immediate impact on mitigating climate change.
To walk that talk, Susanne recently started as Program Director of the 4evergreen Alliance, an initiative of Cepi, the European Association representing the Paper Industry. This unique forum engages and connects industry members from across the fibre-based packaging value chain, from paper and board producers to packaging converters, brand-owners and retailers, technology and material suppliers, waste sorters and collectors.
Hannu Kasurinen, Executive Vice President, Packaging Materials Division, Stora Enso
Hannu has been a member of Stora Enso's Group Leadership Team since December 2019 and heads the Packaging Materials division, which aims to become the global leader in circular bioeconomy based on renewable and recyclable materials. He has held several leadership positions in Stora Enso, including SVP of Liquid Packaging and Carton Board, SVP of Strategy and EVP of Wood Products division, so he definitely knows what a tree can do. Hannu is excited about replacing fossil-based materials with renewable solutions and seeing designers’ ideas for the renewable packaging of tomorrow.
Working in the Directorate for European and International Carbon Markets Mette Quinn is heading the unit for Implementation of the EU Emissions Trading System and IT in the Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action. She took part in the negotiations of the international climate agreement in Paris in 2015, and also worked on international and EU domestic climate finance and innovation issues.
Within the European Commission she has also worked in the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, where she has a number of years’ experience as a policy officer on innovation policy development, governance and benchmarking. Previously, she worked for the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and also spent a few years at the Danish Permanent Representation to NATO. She is an economist (Cand. Polit) and married with one daughter.
Due to the restrictions to corporate travel as a result of COVID-19, this year's PRIMA conference will take place online. Delegates can expect the same insightful, high-calibre content and opportunities to connect with fellow pulp, print and packaging professionals.
