Marco is a career paper industry professional with 30 years’ experience across strategical, tactical, engineering and sales functions as well as a worldwide scope that includes China, SE Asia, US, Canada and several European countries. He held management positions at Valmet running projects that included starting up 10 new paper machines, and as Director of Service he developed a new services business model focused on efficiency improvements and cost savings.
Marco has championed the transformative power of data-driven management and uses his deep solutions-focused understanding of paper making operations to help clients improve performance and address the unique challenges faced by European players.
Prior to joining Rabobank, Natasha worked as a Markets and Supply Chains researcher at LEI Wageningen University. In this position, she conducted research on a wide range of F&A sectors, such as poultry and dairy, as well as on a number of overarching food supply chain themes, like food safety.
Natasha started her career in 1999 as Quality Assurance Manager at a baby food production plant (part of Royal Numico) in Moscow. From there, she moved to the Netherlands to work on her Ph.D. at Wageningen University, focusing on the economics of food safety and traceability in the Dutch dairy chain. During this period, she was also a visiting researcher in the US and Australia. In addition to her Ph.D., Natasha holds a MSc in Agricultural Economics from the Russian State Agricultural University (Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy).
After an internship in packaging, marketing and sales stations at Granini, Bongrain (now Savencia) and Galbani, Peter started his own business in 2001. Since 2008 he has supported clients with a strong focus on sustainability, innovation and differentiation, investing in material, single and reusable options along the entire supply chain.
Hanna Kalliomäki (M.Sc. (Econ.)) works as Chief Sustainability Officer at Paptic Ltd, a Finnish innovation and growth company for replacing the use of plastic with fiber-based and recyclable packaging materials in global market. Ms. Kalliomäki is an experienced sustainability professional with a background in Finnish forest-based biomaterials’ value chains and related regulation. She’s been working with sustainable forest management, production related sustainability performance as well as product specific calculations, testing and claims. Prior to working for forestry sector, she’s been working as strategic sustainability consultant for several industries. In private life, Ms. Kalliomäki is a sailor and carries a great concern of the condition of the Baltic Sea.
