VP Supply Chain Strategy, Transformation and Sustainability
PepsiCo Europe and Sub Saharan Africa
Chris has worked for PepsiCo for 27 years, predominantly in Supply Chain and Financial leadership roles. Having worked as a supply chain leader over the last decade, sustainability has been a critical part of Chris’ role and three years ago he formally took ownership of leading the sustainability agenda as part of his responsibilities to transform PepsiCo’s Europe’s supply chain. In this role, Chris leads PepsiCo’s work to embed sustainable thinking, practices and technology into the European supply chain. A key area he is driving is to establish end to end sustainability thinking into core decision making and processes across our business, alongside partnering with all stakeholders to make sustainable choices more accessible.
Santiago Navarro
CEO & Co-Founder
Garçon Wines
Santiago Navarro is a serial entrepreneur. His first start-up in 2011, Vinopic Wines, was an online retailer which was the first to use science to judge and score wines for their intrinsic quality. Following this, he went on to co-found Nightly.travel, the world's only hotel booking site to split a traveller’s stay across two hotels to enable them to save as much as 70%. Santiago’s now focused on Garçon Wines, as CEO and co-founder, innovating the 35 billion bottles used annually in wine and aiming to make flat, sustainable bottles the dominant primary packaging in wine.
John Whitfield
Director, Packaging Engineering and Development
Microsoft Corporation
John is a 30-year veteran of Procter and Gamble where he was responsible for the development of packaging across its many business units including Healthcare, Beauty Care and Household products, based in the UK and Belgium. He led the development of the Company’s first globally-identical packaging for Haircare products in the late 90s. His time at P&G was punctuated by a period at Coty Inc. Barcelona where he was Director of Packaging responsible for the mass fragrance, color cosmetics and personal care businesses. Since 2012 John has been based in Redmond, Washington where he leads the Packaging Development and Engineering function at Microsoft.
Nicolas Bouché
Packaging Director
Decathlon
Attila Turos
VP Strategic Alliances & GM Diagnostics
Loop
Attila Turos is Vice President of Strategic Alliances, Loop and General Manager, Diagnostics at TerraCycle Inc. Previously, Attila was a senior international development professional specializing in developing and managing environmental sustainability and public health initiatives for Global Enterprises and International Organizations through public-private collaboration projects/programs. Notably, Attila led the World Economic Forum’s work on Sustainability and Circular Economy and lead public health programmes at the World Health Organization.