Brussels Metropolitan Area
R&D Scientist Manager | 20+ Years of Innovation at P&G I lead technical R&D projects delivering market-leading products through a combination of formulation expertise and cutting-edge automation. Core Expertise: Global Project Leadership: 20+ years driving product development for North American and European markets (Liquid, Powder, and Soluble Unit Dose). Automation & Efficiency: Specialized in high-throughput method development, achieving productivity leaps of up to 90X to boost R&D pipelines. Standardization & Policy: Active member of BEC, CENELEC, and IEC committees, defining global performance methods for dishwashers. My current focus is optimizing the synergy between appliance hardware and chemical formulation to deliver the next generation of cleaning performance.
2005-2006: Global test method owner in Handdish Product Design 2006-2011: Current business North American, Japan and EMEA Handdish 2011-2014: Delivery of new generation washing up products: Tide Pod and Gain Flings. Current business owner NA and technical readiness leader of several projects. 2014-2016: Consumer research and current business owner in laundry powders (South Africa, Arabic Peninsula) and technical readiness leader of a major new innovation in laundry products across Middle East and Africa. 2016-2023: R&D AutoDish Wash: qualified and delivered projects in North America (Cascade) and EMEA (Fairy). In parallel also codeveloped with Veolia a fully automated high accuracy water system for lab performance testing. 2023-2025: Lab automation, high throughput test method development and digital innovation in R&D environment 2025-current: Appliance understanding and knowledge integration in the European Autodish projects. Active member of the BEC, CENELEC and IEC (TC59A). More specific skills aquired during these assignments: - Manage cross-continental link for projects - Technical readiness leader accross functions within and outside R&D - Expertise in surfactant cleaning & sudsing - Expertise in enzymatic cleaning - Coaching people to become technical experts - Qualitative and quantitative consumer research - Workflow analysis for opportunity mapping of automation integration. - High throughput method development - Dishwasher engineering
Helped with the development of new oligomer for resin making.