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Jennifer Abril led SOCMA for nearly a decade before becoming ACI's President and Chief Executive Officer. Under her leadership, SOCMA refreshed its programming and offered new opportunities to develop business partnerships and build industry connections across the supply chain. She previously served as the association’s Director of Performance Improvement between 2006-2008 and was responsible for the development and implementation of ChemStewards®.
Prior to serving as SOCMA’s leader, Abril was President of the International Fragrance Association, North America from 2008-2016. She earned a B.A. in International Studies from The American University and holds a M.S. in Management from the University of Maryland, University College.
Filip is Euromonitor International’s global lead for home care research and strategic client engagement. He oversees the company’s global home care insights, authors flagship industry reports, and shapes the editorial direction of Euromonitor’s industry insights.
Widely recognised as a thought leader in the category, Filip delivers data-driven, forward-looking analysis to home care brands and retailers worldwide. His expertise helps clients navigate shifting consumer behaviours, category performance, and emerging industry opportunities.
Arianna is a Global Market Segment Leader at IFF Health & Biosciences in Wilmington, DE. In her current role, she leads innovation and new product development projects within the Home and Personal Care Business. Previously, she was a Commercial Leader in IFF’s Health business where she led the Women’s Health platform and new product development projects with probiotics.
In addition to Arianna’s role at IFF, she is the global co-leader of NextGen, IFF’s employee resource group for early career professionals in the first 12 years of their first career.
Within ACI, she is a member of the Future Leaders Program as well as Microbial-Based Cleaning Product Task Force.
She holds a MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University.
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Jenna Arkin is the forceful innovator behind ECOS®'s safer and greener cleaning products. With a degree in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a graduate degree in Fashion Design from the Fashion Institute of Design and Technology, Jenna brings a unique combination of scientific expertise and creative passion to her work.
As the Chief Innovation Officer at ECOS®, Jenna is leading the charge in developing safer chemical formulations and bold packaging designs that are changing the game in the cleaning industry. Her disruptive mindset and sharp eye for trends have inspired out-of-the-box thinking, connecting seemingly disparate concepts to move the industry towards a more sustainable future.
Jenna is a futurist who is not afraid to take risks. She holds six U.S. patents for her innovations in green chemistry and packaging design, and was recognized as one of Progressive Grocer's GenNext Award winners in 2018 for industry standouts under the age of 40. In 2022, Jenna led ECOS® to become one of Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies, cementing her status as a thought leader and innovator.
Darci Ferrer provides support to clients on a wide range of regulatory and scientific topics related to chemical management with a focus on Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) regulated products. This includes helping clients determine a pathway to registration of new active ingredients and end products. She has broad experience in regulatory and scientific affairs regarding a variety of industrial and consumer products, including pesticides, cleaning products, and fragrance materials. Furthermore, Darci's experience in chemicals regulation is comprehensive, including advisory and scientific work with industry leaders.
Prior to joining Steptoe, Darci served as Chief Scientist for a leading trade association where she was accountable for regulatory analysis and advocacy for the fragrance industry in the US and Canada, providing direct support and assistance to association members. She regularly developed comments on regulatory proposals and met directly with regulators to discuss potential opportunities and concerns of new and proposed regulations. Of note, Darci led early industry efforts to support the EPA risk evaluation of one of the first twenty substances selected for review by EPA under the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Her past experience also includes developing and submitting state and federal pesticide registrations and point source environmental exposure assessments.
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Brian T. Sansoni is the Senior Vice President of Communication, Outreach & Membership at the American Cleaning Institute. ACI is the trade association for the cleaning products industry in the United States, based in Washington D.C.
Since 2000, Mr. Sansoni has served as a spokesman for ACI and is responsible for the association’s external and internal communication activities, including media relations and promotion of the ACI’s technical, government affairs, sustainability and consumer education activities.
In 2012, he was named Vice President, Sustainability Initiatives, reflecting the work already done to build ACI’s sustainability programs that showcase how ACI members are leading the way in demonstrating sustainability every single day. This includes the 2011 release of the first-ever Sustainability Report for the U.S. cleaning products industry.
Mr. Sansoni also directs ACI’s membership development and member retention efforts.
Prior to joining ACI, Mr. Sansoni worked at the Grocery Manufacturers of America (now Grocery Manufacturers Association), the world’s largest association of food, beverage, and consumer product companies. While there, he served as Senior Manager for Public Policy Communications, working as a spokesman for association positions on issues like food biotechnology, food and product safety, obesity, and irradiation.
My interests lie at the intersection of life sciences, technology, and business, and I am betting my career on the biorevolution and the emerging bioeconomy. Currently I am building Cascade Biocatalysts with the dream of easy-to-use enzymes that are both economical and scalable for greener chemical manufacturing.
Before leading Cascade, I was a product manager for the computational product discovery team at Zymergen, focused on using software and data science tools to accelerate new molecule discovery from biology.
Before Zymergen, my experience as an associate at Bain & Company coupled with my technical education as a chemical engineer at Stanford and the Dow Chemical company provided me a unique skill which has allowed me to excel at the interface of technology and business.
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Dr. Jeff Van Komen is a recognized leader, innovator and formulator in the cleaning product industry, currently serving as a Senior Scientist at Pilot Chemical Company.
With 15+ years of experience, he has been instrumental in the successful development and commercialization of numerous cleaning products across a wide range of categories, including laundry detergents, hand dishwashing liquids, all-purpose cleaners, antibacterial formulations, and air care products.
Prior to his impactful contributions in cleaning products, Dr. Van Komen was an accomplished immunologist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. There, his research into membrane lipid dynamics in T-cells provided invaluable work in complex biological systems and meticulous analytical methodologies – skills that directly inform his nuanced approach to chemical formulation and problem-solving today.
Dr. Van Komen holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from Rice University and demonstrated through active involvement in pivotal organizations including the American Cleaning Institute (ACI), Household & Commercial Products Association (HCPA), and the ASTM E35 Committee.
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