Conference Speakers

Ernesto Levy

Sr. VP, Convenience Area, Suominen

Ernesto is Senior Vice President for the Convenience Business Area at Suominen. Ernesto holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a long career in Consumer Goods Brand Management and Innovation. He spent nearly 20 years at Procter & Gamble, leading important businesses in the Oral Care (Crest, Oral-B), Beauty Care (Pantene, Olay) and Home Care Divisions. He was also Vice President of Marketing for Novartis Consumer Health where he was responsible for iconic brands such as Excedrin and Theraflu. He has lived and worked in his native Colombia, in Mexico and the United States. He sits in the board of several organizations, Cedar Village Retirement Home and Clinova Consumer Health. He resides in Cincinnati with his wife and 3 boys.

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Tuesday 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
RISE® Innovation Award Presentations

Suominen Intelligent Nonwoven

Suominen Intelligent Nonwoven® makes it possible to embed digital features into Suominen nonwovens. With Suominen Intelligent Nonwovens®, product traceability and safety can be increased to a new level. It also provides brands with a new kind of sophisticated marketing tool.

Suominen Intelligent Nonwovens® is based on Suominen®s technical capability to produce very high definition patterning. The high definition patterns are machine-readable by any conventional smart phone and allow for any digital content to be activated.

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