2024 Speakers


Miguel Arevalo
Packaging Innovation Lead
Google

Josh Becker
Product Manager - Bakery/Confection
Harpak-ULMA Packaging, LLC

Greg Berguig
President
PAC Machinery

Patti Boerger
Executive Director of Communications and Industry Outreach
Paper and Packaging Board

David Bourne
Lead for Environmental Strategy
Google

Emmanuel Cerf
CEO
Film Source Packaging

Myles Cohen
Founder
Circular Ventures

John Cooke
Director of Sales
Triangle Package Machinery

DeNeile Cooper
Recyclability Solutions Manager
The Recycling Partnership

Greg Corra
VP, Global Packaging & Sustainability
Colgate-Palmolive Company

Justin Davis
Director, Commercial Origination and Business Development
AMP

Scott DeFife
President
Glass Packaging Institute

Nicholas Ellis
Principal
Amazon Climate Pledge Fund

Kasra Eskandari
Associate Director
NIQ

Tamsin Ettefagh
CSO/EVP Commercial
PureCycle Technologies

Dan Felton
President & CEO
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA)

Ken Forziati
Product Manager - Thermoforming
Harpak-ULMA Packaging

Laura Hennemann
SVP, Sustainability & Corporate Affairs
SMI

Rebecca Hu
Founder, CEO
Glacier

Patrick Keenan
Sustainable Packaging R&D
General Mills

Patrick Krieger
VP Sustainability
PLASTICS Industry Association

Reid Lifset
Research Scholar
Yale University

Glen Long
Senior Vice President
PMMI

Jim Marcinko
Recycling Operations Director
WM

Joaquin Mariel
Chief Commercial Officer
Balcones Recycling

Rebecca Marquez
Director, Custom Research
PMMI

Phil Martinez
North American Sustainability Manager
MCC Label

Marija Massey
Strategic Sourcing Manager, Circular Feedstocks, North America
Eastman Chemical Company

Neil Menezes
Packaging Sustainability Policy Manager
General Mills Inc.

Megan Moore
Program Director
NAPCOR

Zach Muscato
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Plastic Ingenuity

Kory Nook
VP Packaging R&I
DANONE NORTH AMERICA/DANNON CO

Michael Okoroafor
Chief Sustainability Officer
McCormick & Company, Inc.

Gabriel Opoku-Asare
Director- Society/ESG
Diageo North America

Adam Peer
Senior Director, Packaging & Consumer Products Markets
American Chemistry Council

Ajit Perera
Vice President Post Consumer Operations
Talco Plastics Inc.

Jonathan Quinn
CEO
US Plastics Pact

Sarah Reeves
Executive Director
Chittenden Solid Waste District

Matt Reynolds
Chief Editor
Packaging World

Christopher Schmidt
Value Proposition Strategy Manager
Lyondellbasell

Tom Seidel
Director, Sustainability & Market Development
Printpack

Jeff Snyder
Senior Vice President Recycling
Rumpke

Carla Toth
SVP Business Development
Nexus Circular

Scott Trenor
Technical Director
Association of Plastic Recyclers

Jim Velky
Senior Director of Sustainability
The Coca-Cola Company