Speakers - Future of Plastics Packaging

Stephanie Cieplik, BKV

Stephanie Cieplik has a degree in German law and works as a project manager for BKV GmbH.

She was employed with tecpol GmbH, an initiative of the plastics industry, since 2008. Since tecpol GmbH was integrated into BKV GmbH in 2013, she heads various BKV projects and provides the necessary legal support. Her current areas of focus are marine litter and legal topics. At present, she coordinates in particular the development of the project “From Land to Sea – Model for the documentation of land-sourced plastic litter”.

Stephen Mancey, Logoplaste

Stephen is currently CEO of Logoplaste, a world leading packaging company. He has spent 41 years in the Plastics Industry at senior levels and is a Polymer Engineer by profession. Previous he was COO leading technical teams across 65 plants in USA, Europe, South America and SEA.  Stephen has vast experiences from working at director level with large companies during the past 20 years. 

He has experience of working in the industry as process / design and project engineering and across a wide range of process and industries. 

Stephen has been at Logoplaste for the past 17 years and has lead growth with start-up of SEA, USA, and managed triple digit growth.

Stephen has worked for Bunzl, P&G, Gillette, Dow and Revlon in the past with global experience in most regions during the past 40 years.

Stephen sits in the British Plastics Federation Council and was voted one of the top 50 most influential leaders in the plastics Industry in 2016. He contributes / works on 4 committees; Education, Brexit, Packaging and Sustainability. He is a Member of the American Society of Plastics Engineers and the American Institute of packaging. As well as the UK leading Institute of materials.  He has a passion to help and supports education for apprenticeship training and development of senior management teams globally. 

Tom Sheldon, Science Media Centre

Tom Sheldon has degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics. He joined the Science Media Centre in April 2008, and he takes the lead on engineering and environment stories in the national news.  Fukushima, 'climategate', GM crops, and the health effects of mobile phones have all been high profile media stories over the last few years. In every case it was vitally important that the voices of scientists and engineers were heard among the uproar.  

When these stories break, the SMC provides a direct route between journalists and scientists, to their mutual benefit ensuring that reporters have constant and immediate access to the best quality, up-to-date evidence, and that scientists have help communicating complex, nuanced research where it matters most: the national news media. 

Rob Thompson, Co-op Group
 

Rob Thompson works as the sole Packaging Technologist for the Co-op Group as part of the Food Policy team in the central support centre in Manchester. He is involved in the development of Co-op branded products across all categories, ensuring that their packaging complies with their environmental and food safety policies. He manages the process for packaging innovations, trouble shoot packaging quality issues and is behind the drive to make all of Co-op groups packaging easy to recycle.

In his previous role as Senior Packaging Technologist for AG Barr, he managed Packaging NPD projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring optimum technical effectiveness and efficiency, together with minimum environmental impact. Bringing beverage brands such as IRN-BRU, Rubicon, Orangina, Tizer and Strathmore to market, 

Rob holds a diploma in Packaging Technology from the Institute of Packaging and a level 5 diploma in Management and Leadership from the Chartered Management Institute.