Dr Axel Ekani Nkodo Beauty and Wellbeing R&D Strategy and Operations Director Dr. Axel Ekani Nkodo is currently Unilever Beauty and Wellbeing R&D Strategy and Operations Director. In this role, he supports the B&W Leadership in defining and executing the group strategy as well as driving and improving the team operational efficiency. Since joining Unilever R&D, he has held a variety of positions, as Technology Platform Leader in Science & Technology, where he led the development of new technologies for Hair Care, Skin Care and Deodorants as well as Innovation Technical Project Leader, where he led the launch of new products for brands such as Dove, Sunsilk or Tigi. In addition to these roles, he has also led teams of scientists and R&D managers in UK and in China, where he spent 4 years on assignment. Prior to joining Unilever R&D, Axel obtained a PhD in Physics from the Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Dr Jason Harcup FRSC Global VP Skin Care R&D
Jason is Global Vice President for Skin Care Research & Development, leading end-to-end R&D delivery from innovation to market in 89 countries, across several billion Euros of turnover. He is also Global Vice President for the billion Euro Prestige Division. He also leads Unilever’s North America R&D Campus. He leads several hundred PhDs globally across a dozen worldwide laboratories, delivering more than a billion euros of marketed innovations. He is a Cambridge University Natural Scientist, being elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology in 2016, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015. He more broadly serves the industry as Judge for the RSC Emerging Technologies Initiative, co-convenor of the Asian Dermatological Forum, having grown and headed up a $60m R&D facility in Shanghai, as Faculty for Health and Beauty America, Beauty Disruptor with the CEW network, and frequently contributes presentations and articles.
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