Previously Senior Technical Consultant at DuPont Performance Materials, Dr. Torradas has been in the packaging and tailored materials businesses for 35 years. He has extensive experience in R&D, Global Technical Support, Product and Application Development, Licensing and Product line management. His experience includes barrier polymers, and he has been active in polymer blends, polymer modification, recycling, and biopolymers.
Dr. Torradas earned a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona in Spain, as well as a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT.
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Advisory Board
Nathan Estruth
Over 27 years with Procter & Gamble in the U.S. and China, with 12+ years as Vice-President, and through service on many Boards, Nathan has brought distinguished business leadership in strategy, technology & business model innovation, and culture & talent development. Nathan led P&G’s global corporate new business development (P&G FutureWorks) and led P&G’s plastics start-up, iMFLUX, as co-founder and CEO.
Nathan holds a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA and spent an additional year of graduate study at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University.
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Bob has over 40 years experience in marketing, advertising, plastics, packaging, and environmental planning. He has designed and executed strategic marketing and branding programs for Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, ITW, the American Chemistry Council, and Pactiv. He most recently served as Senior Director, Marketing for the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN).
Bob earned a BA in Psychology from Northwestern University and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, also at Northwestern.