Michelle is the Marketing Director for Dow’s Food and Specialty Packaging Business and a Marketing Fellow for Dow. She joined Dow in 2018 through the Dow/DuPont merger and has since held various marketing roles. Michelle's current responsibilities include leading marketing strategy for the food packaging segment in North America and sha has global responsibility for Dow’s CLOSE THE LOOP goal. With more than a decade of experience in the packaging industry, Michelle is passionate about creating a more sustainable future for flexible packaging.
Before joining Dow, Michelle spent 16 years at DuPont, where she worked across multiple businesses and functions including operations, product management, corporate marketing, and field sales. Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from the University of Delaware.
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Karin von Kienlin is a Senior Partner in L.E.K. Consulting’s Munich office. She is Head of L.E.K. Germany and is an elected member of L.E.K.’s Global Leadership Team.
She has more than 25 years' experience in growth strategy development and implementation, having worked for a diverse range of clients across Europe, North America and Asia.
Sector-wise, Karin has been working with clients in automotive, machine manufacturing, building products, chemicals and packaging to identify priorities for profitable growth, and to support organizational change and mergers & acquisitions to make them happen. This includes, for example, buy-and-build projects, acquisition target screening, commercial due diligence, marketing and sales planning, and organizational strategy projects.
Karin holds a Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Brasenose College, Oxford University.
Thilo Henkes, Managing Director, L.E.K. Consulting Thilo Henkes joined L.E.K. in 2000 and has more than 17 years of consulting experience specializing in transaction support and developing post-acquisition, value-enhancing strategies for clients. He is a Managing Director and Partner, and leads our Paper Goods and Packaging practice. Thilo is also active in our Building Materials & Industrials Products and Private Equity practices. He has worked with his clients to evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities, assess growth options in new markets and new products, construct business plans in conjunction with developing new growth strategies, and identify value in cost-cutting initiatives.
Kerri leads the North America team at KIND Snacks, a division of MARS, and has responsibility for the Health & Wellness Platform which currently includes Nature’s Bakery and Tru Fru. She provides organizational leadership for the Packaging function, delivers technical solutions that meet the wants and needs of the consumer, and leads the Sustainable Packaging pillar across the Platform. Kerri has over 20 years experience in packaging design and development and background in people leadership, strategy development, and breakthrough innovation. Prior to joining KIND Snacks, she held roles at Nabisco, Cadbury, and Kraft Foods/Mondelēz International.
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Jon Moss is a Managing Director in L.E.K. Consulting’s Chicago office. Jon is a member of the firm’s Industrials practice, with a focus on the Paper & Packaging and Building & Construction practices. He has worked on growth strategy engagements focused on both U.S. and international opportunities and has supported corporate and private equity clients on buy- and sell-side transactions.
Thilo Henkes, Managing Director, L.E.K. Consulting Thilo Henkes joined L.E.K. in 2000 and has more than 17 years of consulting experience specializing in transaction support and developing post-acquisition, value-enhancing strategies for clients. He is a Managing Director and Partner, and leads our Paper Goods and Packaging practice. Thilo is also active in our Building Materials & Industrials Products and Private Equity practices. He has worked with his clients to evaluate merger and acquisition opportunities, assess growth options in new markets and new products, construct business plans in conjunction with developing new growth strategies, and identify value in cost-cutting initiatives.
Rob is the former CEO of Sonoco (NYSE:SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, with sales of over $5 billion and over 20,000 employees working in 30 countries.. Prior to being named CEO, Rob served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Sonoco, with global leadership, sales and operating responsibility for all of the Company’s diversified consumer, industrial and protective packaging businesses.
Prior to joining Sonoco, Rob worked in private equity as president of Bostic Packaging/ CorrFlex from 2000 to 2004 and president of Sterling International from 1998 to 2000. He also served as EVP of operations for Graphic Packaging’s flexible packaging division.
Currently Rob is an advisor and board member of several private companies.
Rob is active in industry and community organizations and serves on the board of trustees of Azusa Pacific University and is the former chairman of the Flexible Packaging Association and the Hartsville United Way. A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Rob became a US citizen in 2013. He and his wife Val have three grown children.
Pat is a member of the Industrials Investment Banking Group, responsible for the firm's paper and packaging franchise in North America. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2015 as an associate and was named managing director in 2021.
Prior to joining the firm, Pat worked in the industrials investment banking groups at both Barclays and Nomura. Earlier in his career, he worked at Accenture and focused on corporate finance in the communications, high tech and government practices.
Pat earned a BA in Economics and an MBA from Georgetown University in 2004 and 2013, respectively.
Ciaran is responsible for delivering Smithers global growth initiatives and supporting Smithers Asian client base.
Ciaran has been working for Smithers for nearly twenty years supporting the packaging, print and paper value chains with key market and technical information in the form of conferences, reports and consulting. Ciaran has worked on winning and delivering a wide range of market consultancy projects to major industry players, recent projects include a global assessment of printing and packaging growth trends and market assessment for a major new product launch for one of the world’s largest packaging converters.
Ciaran has launched and managed many international conferences in this sector including Digital Print for Packaging, SustPack, Specialty Papers and Print Futures.
Sergio Pupkin is a global C-suite executive and active Board Director focused in B2B markets, packaging, automation, services and specialty chemicals. Over an extensive career, Sergio has consistently delivered profitable growth, and transformative results in situations of turnaround, scale-up and mature businesses in publicly and privately held companies. For more than 20 years, he developed a unique multicultural approach through assignments in North America, Europe, and Latin America regions in which he lived and performed business.
Sergio is widely recognized as a visionary, power thinker, and driver of high performance teams by creating critical capabilities across organizations. He possesses a distinctive competence for complex problem solving and leading large scale initiatives. His expertise encompasses Corporate Strategy, Global Marketing, Innovation and New Product Development, M&A and Investments, Sustainability, eCommerce, and Digital.
As a Board Director, Sergio’s focus is on governance and advisory roles in both public and private company settings. Serving as a member of Nominating and Governance, Audit Committees, and Chair of the ESG Committee, he is committed to driving responsible and sustainable practices that align with the long-term goals of the organization.
