See our contacts page if you would like to get in touch with any of the following.

 

Keith Barnes - Chairman

Keith has been involved in the world of packaging for more than forty years. Management roles within Ilford and Boots have led on to a career in consultancy. Mintel is a major client, and Keith helped to organise their GNPD packaging section. Keith is a Fellow of the Institute, a past chairman of Council of the former IOP and a Trustee of the Institute. A Chartered Scientist and Chartered Environmentalist, he is also on the main Council of IOM3.

Keith organised the Packaging Section of Materials congress 2005 and is on the Institute's ITP Board, the Surface Engineering committee, Energy Materials Group, Sustainability Group and is involved with Smart Materials (KTN). He has provided numerous articles on packaging and acts as the co-ordinator for the Packaging Summer School held annually in the UK for Michigan State University.

 

Alec Alden

Alec Alden is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute with more than 30 years’ experience in the global packaging industry.  This has included appointments at international director level in both product manufacturing and the capital equipment sectors, working in Europe and in North America.  He is currently Principal/Director of an industry consultancy group working predominantly within the corrugated paper and board packaging and printing industry in the UK and Europe.

Alec is the author of technical publications for corrugated packaging processing and has been a keynote speaker at several international packaging seminars.  His current involvement with the Institute includes Chairmanship of the Starpack Working Group and as tutor for the Diploma in Packaging.

 

Richard Bull

Newly elected and details to follow

 

Mark Caul

Dr Mark Caul, is the Senior Packaging Technologist at Marks and Spencer plc - Foods Business Unit. He is responsible for ensuring M&S packaging brand standards are maintained; Quality, Value, Innovation, Safety and Trust.

Mark is a Materials Engineer by Education and has published several papers in the field of Electron Backscatter Diffraction. Following university he spent four years working for Magnox and then British Nuclear Fuels as a Materials Engineer looking after projects for demonstrating continued safety of the graphite cores.

At Marks and Spencer, he is currently leading a small team to deliver an environmental strategy for Plan A, which he believes is the most important topic to hit packaging in many years. In addition to Plan A, Mark is responsible for delivering an innovation agenda, ensuring packaging legislation is complied to, delivering safe packaging and ensuring M&S high quality standards are met.

His remit includes Far East sourcing and ensuring a strong stance on Ethical Trading.

 

Roy Dixon

Roy’s background is a mixture of business, technology and design gained from over thirty years in the packaging industry.   He started as a packaging designer for Gillette Industries where he claims a major role in some of the company’s biggest packaging disasters. This ‘character building’ experience eventually persuaded him to ‘learn something about how packaging worked’; which he is still doing to this day.

Roy had several years’ pharmaceutical experience before joining Marks and Spencer’s where he worked for fifteen years in toiletries and food packaging.

This breadth of experience has given him an understanding of the often conflicting requirements of combining the commercial needs of the retailer and manufacturer with innovative packaging design that sells the product.

Roy is a fellow of the Institute and a Chartered Scientist, He now runs his own consultancy specialising in environmental packaging design and training. He is currently a member of the Board of The Packaging Society, a Starpack judge and lectures on the Diploma and EQIPT courses.

 

Henry Emblem

Henry Emblem has spent his entire career covering technical and commercial aspects of the packaging industry, and now operates an Environmental Packaging consultancy and is an ISO 14001 Lead Assessor.

He is currently the Secretary of the Packaging Society Environmental Common Interest Group and is a former national chairman of the Institute of Packaging and the Essex Resource Efficiency Club.

As well as the Packaging Society, he is a board member of the Cambridge Community Re-use and Recycling Network. He is a co-editor of ‘Packaging Prototypes II’ and the Packaging Society standard textbook ‘The Fundamentals of Packaging’ and is a major contributor to the BRC/IOP Global Packaging Standard.

 

Neil Farmer

Neil Farmer is Managing Director of Neil Farmer Associates, a research and information consultancy for the packaging supply chain established in 2001
Neil is highly qualified Fellow of the Packaging Society. He was previously a Trustee of the Institute of Packaging and Chairman of  Council of the Institute of Packaging.
Apart from The Packaging Society, Neil also holds Fellowships at the Institute of Paper, the Institute of Paper, Printing and Publishing as well as the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Neil is has the unique honour of being a Freeman of the City of London!
Neil is a  regular speaker at many industry conferences, exhibitions and seminars. He is the author of techno-economic reports on  the Packaging Industry. His current main areas of specialty are Flexible Packaging, Food Contact Packaging, Extended Shelf Life Packaging, Active and Intelligent Packaging, Innovations, Bio-Plastics, Environmental Issues and Sustainability. Before establishing Neil Farmer Associates, Neil was a Director of several leading International Packaging Public Companies, including Jarvis Porter, Wace Group and Ferry Pickering.

Richard Inns

Richard Inns BSc. DMS F.Inst.Pkg: a Polymer Physicist has worked in the packaging industry for 38 years for both manufacturers (Metal Box) and users (Unilever) of packaging. Spent ten years as Director of the Packaging Division of Pira before moving back to Unilever taking responsibility for Personal Care packaging in Asia before moving to Italy to take responsibility for packaging at the Global Dental Innovation Centre and then on to a similar role in the Spreads Category in Rotterdam. Both at Pira and Unilever he played a major role in identifying and evaluating new packaging technology from around the World. He was a member for seventeen years of the Unilever Corporate Packaging and Environment Group becoming Chairman of that group, Global Issue Leader for packaging and a member of Corporate Policy Group.” Since becoming a consultant he has been an advisor to EUROPEN and has carried out projects for BSi, EUROPEN, ECR Europe, WRAP and major European packaging manufacturers and users.

 

Chris Penfold

Chris is the Chairman at The East Midlands Packaging Society and is a Packaging professional with 25+ years packaging development & NPD experience working on £million-brands in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, FMCG, cosmetics, toiletries & personal-care arenas for ‘blue-chip’ multinational companies: Glaxo (GSK), CIBA (Novartis), Boots plc & Reckitt Benckiser. He has 6+ years recent experience running his own 'award-winning' packaging consultancy which includes a team of structural and graphic designers and packaging technologists, providing support for a wide variety of clients.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging (IOP), Chairman of East Midlands Packaging Society and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).

He is also an MBA graduate and Chartered Marketer (CIM) with extensive cross-functional experience in broad spectrum of related disciplines: marketing, supply-chain, QC and production.

 

Steve Pye 

Steve is the technical service manager, consumer board. Walki Ltd
He has worked in the packaging industry for over40 years as a printer, packaging technologist and product development manager for Walki Group, a leading packaging materials manufacturer. This has given him an inside perspective on the issues facing the paper based and polymer based packaging industry. He is currently Chairman of the Merseyside Packaging Society, a member of the  Board of The Packaging Society and a member of the Local Affairs Board of IOM3 .  As a member of the Institute for over 20 years he is keen to represent the member viewpoint and help deliver benefits at a local level that are relevant to the disciplines both in Packaging and Materials Industries.

 

Elizabeth Reeman

Newley elected and details to follow

 

Ian Roe

Educated in Chemistry, Packaging Technology, Business Administration, Marketing and Digital Marketing and Psychology Ian Roe has spent over 20 years in the packaging industry.  
From a technical and packaging development background in toiletries, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals Ian moved into sales and then manufacturing and then Marketing on the supply side before co-founding specialist executive search company Mercury Search and Selection.

In addition to sitting on a number of academic committees Ian as been a regular contributor on the subject of packaging on Qualified Persons courses at Leeds University and at Pharmaceutical Conferences internationally.

 

 

Chris Waterhouse

Chris Waterhouse is an experienced Packaging and Project Manager specialising in the integration of manufacturing and supply chain operations with packaging technology. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging.

Having qualified as a Marine Engineer initially Chris moved into the Food Industry.  From there a number of years within the lubricants business of Chevron/Gulf Oil gave him the responsibility for managing a high throughput and complex lubricant blending plant. Recruited into Zeneca in 1998 (and from there into AstraZeneca and then Syngenta working in the Global Technology and Project Management area) he grew his knowledge of complex data and process management.  As a consummate Problem Solver he has always worked where swift results and a focus on added value and cost effective solutions are valued. He is currenlty Director of iDi Pac Limited and his expertise is used extensively across Packaging, Process, Manufacturing and increasingly complex Project Management roles.

 

David Wiggins

David has spent most of his career working in packaging innovation and developmemt in indiustries ranging from cosmetics, confectionary, food, medical, consultancy and beer. He has worked in and led teams of various sizes from three to twenty two. He has been at Coors Brewers since 2000 where he led the packaging development team, the graphics studio and the dispense innovation team. He is currently working on the technology stratgey for the business. 

 

Emma Wise

Emma has 16 years extensive experience within the packaging industry covering a wide range of packaging mediums and markets which include food, retail, cosmetic, luxury gift, to name but a few.

She has specific technical knowledge and understanding print processes which include litho, silkscreen, flex graphic, digital, CTP and significant experience in the manufacturing of printed plastic cartons, rigid and cartonboard, vacuum forming, blow moulding and injection moulding.

She works for Superfos as a sales and business development manager but has previously been Business Development Manager for Professional Packaging Services Limited, one of the UK’s leading global sourcing / print and packaging management companies and prior to that at RPC Containers.