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

Neil Farmer

A Fellow of IOP: The Packaging Society, Neil was formerly a trustee of Institute of Packaging and had held the post of Chairman of Council. A Chartered Scientist and Freeman of the City of London, he is also a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.

Currently Marketing Director at Clear Packaging, a leading plastic packaging producer and formerly Managing Director, Neil Farmer Associates which offered Marketing, Business Development, Media and PR for the Packaging and Print Industry.

Previously with companies including Jarvis Porter Group plc, Wace Group plc and Ferry Pickering Group plc, 1993-96.

Keith Barnes

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 and a Trustee of the Institute. A Chartered Scientist, he is also on the new Packaging Board of IOM3.

Keith organised the Packaging Section of Materials congress 2005 and is on the 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 coordinator for the Packaging Summer School held annually in the UK for Michigan State University.

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.

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.

Terry Robins

Terry started Robins Packaging Consultants in 2004 following over 30 years employment at Sainsbury’s that culminated in technical and innovations manager for packaging.

Terry has worked closely with the BRC on developing their Packaging Technical Standard and the development of environmental packaging materials with numerous companies. Amongst his other activities Terry is an advisor and panelists for Envirowise.

While carrying out consultancy for most packaging needs, Terry’s company majors in environmental materials, environmental design, presenting seminar papers, writing packaging articles, giving assistance with the BRC/IOP Technical Standard and finding the best material for a given application.

Alan Moffat C.Eng, FIMMM

Having trained as an aeronautical engineer with British Airways and Laker Airways before moving into the packaging industry in 1982, I have experience with both equipment suppliers and manufacturing companies gaining knowledge of food, personal care and pharmaceutical packaging.

Having gained my MSc in Packaging Technology in 2004 and following a technical interview in 2007 I was awarded Chartered Engineer, this was followed with a recommendation that I be invited to apply for Fellow IMMM which I was duly awarded.

Since January 2006 I have represented IOP: The Packaging Society on the IOM3 Membership committee.

Barry Jones

Barry has delivered packaging technical and process management for brands for over twentyfive years. He has been a self employed technical consultant since 2002.

Barry founded and ran The Packaging Development Company, Britain’s leading packaging technical company. He sold his business to one of the UK’s largest design groups JKR. Previously he worked in packaging for Asda and Procter & Gamble.

A University of Manchester graduate and IOP member since 1982 and Fellow since 1997, he is Visiting Professor of Packaging Innovation at Sheffield Hallam University.

Heather Kendle

An active member of the Institute of Packaging for the past 10 or more years, Heather has been involved with Starpack, Student Starpack and the IOP conference committee as well as being a Starpack judge. She is current Chairman of the Packaging Board.

Heather Kendle was appointed to Inca Digital Printers and is Director of Marketing, she is responsible for customer and distributor liaison as well as general promotion of Industrial inkjet printing to the wider fast moving consumer goods market.

Previously a director with packaging consultancy CPS International, Heather worked with many global companies, assisting with the introduction of packaging change to new and existing brands. As such she is well aware of the pressures associated with managing an established brand as well as the opportunities that digital print can offer, for marketing, production and legislative reasons.

Andrew Streeter

Is the director of Pack-Track, a global packaging insights company supporting the community of packaging specialists in FMCG and OTC around the world. He is also founder of consultancy, CPS International.

Andrew is a past Chairman of Council of the IoP and oversaw the introduction of the Packaging Professional, the Certificate in Packaging and the UPS service.

He has a world wide reputation as a Japanese packaging expert and is a speaker on this and global packaging trends and innovation. Other interests include being a Fellow of the RSA and a Member of The Sherlock Holmes Society.

David Jackson

David Jackson is a Design Consultant for Easibind International and works directly with creative agencies, corporate and retail brands on holistic design reviews looking at the full journey plan of a product to reduce the project cost and environmental impact.

A graduate of Nottingham Trent University’s Furniture and Product Design where he was sponsored by the Audi Design Foundation, David spent his year in industry at Easibind as an in-house designer in 2000 before rejoining in 2003.

David has presented talks on the sensory experience of packaging design for the consumer in the retail environment. He is also on the Younger Members’ Committee and on the Schools Starpack Judging panel.