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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

A Fellow of The Packaging Society, Neil was a trustee of the former 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.

 

Haulwen Nicholas

 

 

 

 

Haulwen Nicholas (nee Williams)

Haulen has 10 years experience across the packaging supply chain. Having left college with a degree in Environmental Biology, she joined Nice-Pak International. Here she worked for 3 years as a Packaging Technologist and in this time gained her Diploma in Packaging. She spent the next 2 years as a Packaging Technologist for Dairy Crest cheese division before joining Wipak UK Ltd as Technical Manager. Haulwen joined the Waste Resource Action Programme (WRAP) in October 2008, where she supports the retail innovation team to develop and implement strategies to reduce food and product waste through the supply chain.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Smalley

Despite retirement my packaging transplant still works well. Director of Bradshaw Smalley Ltd.Starpack Award Winner in 1998. Had an interest in the Student Starpack Competition. Experienced in printing folding cartons also a knowledge of corrugated,rigid covered boxes, pvc cartons as well as other materials and products. Understand Cost Savings.  Institute Diploma 1964. Fellow 1980. National Council Chairman 1987.Currently Vice-Chairman of Trustees. Willing to assist anyone who can benefit from my knowledge and experience

 

 

 

 

 

Barry Jones

Barry has been consultant packaging technologist for the past seven years.  He has delivered packaging innovation and technical management for: brand owners, retailers and design groups for over twenty-eight years.
He founded and ran Britain’s leading firm of technical packaging managers The Packaging Development Company and then sold it to one of Britain’s largest packaging design group JKR.
Prior to this he worked in packaging for: Asda, Procter & Gamble Health & BeautyCare and Northern Foods
A University of Manchester graduate, chartered scientist and Fellow of both the The Packaging Society, and the RSA. 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Serpell

Tom is about to complete 40 years in the packaging industry. A 1969 graduate trainee at Metal Box, he worked in sales and marketing roles for 13 years. In 1983 he joined Elopak, becoming UK Marketing Director before entrepreneuring a technology joint venture – Odin Developments – which he ran until its demise. He rejoined Elopak, becoming Group Systems Director, responsible for Product Strategy. In 1998 he set up a consultancy, PacLinc, to help UK packaging businesses to improve performance. He was Chair of Education of the former Institute of Packaging for 2 years. In 2004 he moved to a larger consultancy, Obsidian, still mainly working in packaging

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Vyse - Vice Chairman

Since joining Metal Box as a packaging designer in 1979, Kevin has worked in and around packaging for the last 30 years. His experience working on the client side for SC Johnson and Tesco as well as for specialist packaging design agencies such as Planet and The Product Works provides him with a unique industry wide view of the role of packaging as both as an essential brand vehicle and as a vital part in an FMCG product life cycle.

A familiar face on the platforms of packaging and brand conferences, he has also lectured at Surrey Institute and the CIM as well as mentoring marketing and design students. For the last 8 years he has been a packaging and brand consultant as well as holding several non-executive FMCG  marketing directorships. He was awarded a Fellowship of the IOP in 1997, served as judge and chairman of the Starpack awards and now works with The Packaging Society as a Board member. Away from the world of packaging he is a keen yachtsman and mountain biker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.