Speakers at this Event

Pranay Jain started EcoBlue in 2012 with a vision to bring end of life solutions for all hard to recycle plastics. He has helped create what is today one of the best examples of holistic solutions in plastics circularity.  EcoBlue has been at the forefront of innovations in the recycling industry being the first company in South East Asia to offer food grade rPET, rHDPE and rPP polymers. It is the first company in Thailand to adapt block-chain technology and social standards for improving the waste collection ecosystem. Pranay has also developed patented solutions for flexible packaging materials with coatings and inks, which are considered as hard-to-recycle materials. Pranay believes that true circularity can be achieved from bringing radical changes in the traditional model of EPR and gap financing.

Mr. Cox is the Director for Stakeholder Relations of Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc., (CCBPI) and leads the company's initiatives on advocacy and policy work with key stakeholders, particularly in sustainability.  Mr. Cox likewise represents CCBPI in PETVALUE Philippines, CCBPI's pioneering joint venture PET recycling facility investment (with Indorama Ventures of Thailand).  Together with his team in CCBPI and PETVALUE, they are helping to further establish and strengthen circularity in PET packaging for the Philippines, especially after the country's EPR law took effect in 2022."

Pritha is a senior consultant with DHL consulting. She has over 8 years of industry and consulting experience across multiple industries such as consumer goods, chemicals, mining and healthcare. She has lived and worked in several countries in Asia Pacific – Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, India and Indonesia. Her passion lies in making sense of data, optimizing processes, learning about new technologies and sustainability

Ted Park is a pioneer in optical sorting systems in Asia Pacific where he has always been thrived to lead the resource revolution in the field of Recycling and Waste Management in the region.
His journey at TOMRA goes back to 2004 when he joined the company as a consultant and introduced TOMRA’s optical sorting equipment to Recycling and Waste industry in South Korea, then he took a formal position of country manager at TOMRA Recycling when the company made further commitment to the market and set up the first local subsidiary in Asia in South Korea in 2006. In 2010, his aspiration as a resource revolutionary brought him more extensive responsibilities as Regional Director to support other Asian Pacific countries. Today, TOMRA Recycling runs 6 direct local subsidiaries in APAC as well as local partners.  
Prior to the long years of career at TOMRA, Ted was senior market advisor at Commercial Section of Norwegian Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to the fields of ICT, Energy and Environment. He holds master’s degree in int’l trade and negotiations and bachelor’s degree in business management.

Emmeline joined the polymer recycling start-up ReVentas in 2021 when they spun out from the Innovations department of Impact Solutions. ReVentas’ patented technology separates Polyethylene and Polypropylene of odours, colours and contaminants to return it to a virgin-like state. Emmeline is currently project managing ReVentas’s EU Horizon 2020 project to scale up the technology to pilot scale.

Prior to this, Emmeline headed the technical team for the PolyMet Colour Removal Project at Impact Solutions. The project was recently awarded a £0.8 m industrial research grant by Innovate UK to develop a new technology for pigment extraction from waste plastics recyclate. As the Research Lead of Impact’s innovations team, Emmeline was involved in a variety of projects seeking to develop and exploit new technologies across the plastic and recycling industries.

Daniel is Chief Operating Officer of City Oil Field - the only company in the world that uses ceramic catalyst technology to process plastic waste in an eco-friendly manner. Daniel graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law and has been a practising attorney with legal firms in the US until he joined City Oil Field in 2017

Curt Cozart's career in recycling began when he was tasked with building the first North American film recycling plant dedicated to LLDPE stretch film. Since then he has played integral roles in over 70% of the US PET and film recycling volumes and a significant portion of the HDPE recycling industry. Currently APR's Chief Policy Officer, his first major project was leading the development of the new APR Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability. He also continues to design and build recycling plants as the President of Common Sense Solutions

Managing Director of Waste BL, Veolia Korea. Formerly, General Manager of UNIKEN by Veolia, Ulsan Korea,
Formerly, Executive Director of Willmott Pty Ltd JV NSW Australia
Formerly, Executive Director of TASCO Co., Ltd., VIC Australia
Graduated with Master of Business Administration, Deakin University Business School, Melbourne Australia

 Mr. Jihoon Kim graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with biomedical engineering degree, and then from the Wharton MBA. He has spearheaded several mechanical, chemical, and biological plastics recycling projects in Korea and he has established two start-ups in the field of mechanical recycling and biological recycling of biodegradable plastics waste into biogas. He also founded the Green Plastics Alliance, an industry association specializing in sustainable plastics materials, conversion, and recycling.

He is the founder and CEO of SuperBin co., Ltd. SuperBin is a company which is developing digital information of household waste and studies about application of the data to artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies. For the next generation, He wants to lead SueprBin can contribute to the creation of a society and culture of sustainable circular resource economy that can coexist with various lives besides our human beings. He believes we must pass on a culture of value to the next generation and one of the most various culture is our next generation is how to live together.

I majored in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School, and then worked as a head of the Strategic Planning Division at the Korea Textile Technology Research Institute after experiencing as a manager of the Strategic Group at Samjung KPMG, and then served as president of the CEO of a steel company with annual sales of 500 billion won for 4 years.

Ying leads Plastic Energy’s commercial and project activities in Asia. She also holds the role of Chief Sustainability Officer, with responsibility for the company’s overall sustainability strategy as well as policy and communications, and is a member of the company’s Senior Management Team.

Ying started her career in the British Government, where she led research in 10 Downing St and served a number of roles working in national transport and international development, including and 2 years delivering UK aid programmes in Uganda. After leaving government, she was Head of Asia at strategic advisory firm Global Counsel for 6 years, where she advised multinational companies on cross-border trade and investment issues across Europe, Asia and Africa.

Stefanie is an accomplished strategic leader with over 22 years of international experience in sustainability, management and marketing. She is the Managing Director of PCX Solutions, a Philippines based NGO that safeguards a standard for plastic crediting projects and focuses on EPR policy around the world.
She was previously leading the market transformation team at WWF-Singapore delivering impact across key environmental issues. Her prior expertise was in leading partnerships, sales and marketing activities in the media, automotive and licensing industry.
Stefanie studied international business administration and participated at the Directorship Programme at the Singapore Management University. Stefanie is fluent in German, English, and Italian, and loves travelling and hiking with her family.

Anabel PACO
AXENS Plastic Recycling Business Development Manager
New Development & Transformaion Business Division

At present Anabel is Plastic Recycling Business Development Manager. She is based in Kuala Kumpur, and she is in charge of powering plastic circularity through advanced recycling technologies on Asia Pacific.

Anabel started her professional career on field 13 years ago at Repsol (Spain), as Steam Cracker Process & Operation Engineer. In 2014 she joined Axens (France), where she has been working in different positions, first as Technologist on Hydrotreatment and Conversion and later as Regional Sales Manager, leading Axens Sales in Spain, Portugal and Turkey.

Anabel holds an Engineering Degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain,  a Msc in Oil Refining, Petrochemicals and Gas from Repsol Higher Training Center (CSFR), Spain and a MsC Engineering in Energy Systems and Thermal Processes from Cranfield University, UK.

 Emmeline leads Dynapack Asia's Shared Services team, overseeing Sourcing, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Human Resources, Information Technology, and Strategy Management. Her ability to leverage the group’s capabilities, resources, and footprint across Asia is crucial to the group's growth. Emmeline played a key role in implementing SAP (2003), Strategy Management (2012), the rPET recycling joint venture Amandina Bumi Nusantara (2022), and the non-profit organization Mahija Parahita Nusantara, which focuses on post-consumer plastic collection (2021). Before joining Dynapack Asia, Emmeline began her career with Andersen in Sydney, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Massachusetts, United States

Ignacio Costa has over a decade of experience in refining, renewable fuels & chemical recycling. In his current role as a Licensing Manager at Topsoe, he is at the forefront of securing the commercial success of key technologies for decarbonization, including plastic recycling and SAF. Ignacio's journey at Topsoe began with various roles in the Technical Department, where he played a pivotal role in the development, design and troubleshooting of Topsoe’s hydroprocessing technologies with focus on upgrading of plastic pyrolysis oil.

Before joining Topsoe, he worked five years in the refining industry as a Process Engineer and Shift Manager.

Ignacio holds a chemical engineering degree from The National Technological University from Argentina