DEI Advisory Board

Pat has been the CEO of SPE since June 2017. A career association executive, Pat was previously an Executive Vice President of Kellen – a global association management firm with offices in Atlanta, Brussels, Beijing, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, New York and Washington, D.C. Pat was a member of the company’s Executive Board and managed its Chicago and Denver offices. Pat was a founding partner of the association management company Landon, Farrey & Associates, Inc., which was acquired by Kellen in October 2011. Prior, he and his business partner launched Independent Publishing Company (IPC), a publisher of packaging-industry trade magazines, association journals and web sites. IPC was acquired by Medical World Communications (NJ) in December 2001.

Pat specializes in helping Societies achieve profitability, relevance, and vitality. His strengths include strategic planning, marketing, global expansion, membership development, publishing, administration, public relations, meetings, and trade show management.

Brian's career was that as a Product Development Engineer and Manager with plastics, chemical, converting and injection molding expertise in diversified technology and manufacturing companies.

Allison is an Intrapreneur who thrives in leading and developing global procurement and sustainability organizations, collaborating with external and internal networks to develop and deliver sustainable solutions at Fortune 50 companies.

Consistently rated as a top-performer by exceeding corporate expectations, problem-solving across boundaries to deliver break-through, industry changing results. She is also a public speaker on environmental and social sustainability. Her professional skills are focused on organizational design and development, collaborative negotiations, relationship management , commodity risk management, and licensing and commercial agreements.

Lynzie is an Upstream Quote Engineer for Cytiva, managing the product costing for custom upstream hardware equipment for bio processing. Throughout her career, Lynzie has gained experience in the automotive, appliance, medical, pet, and micro injection molding industries.

Cathy is a DEI thought leader and is passionate about helping organizations grow with Diversity and Inclusion through better employee engagement, employee experience, innovation, problem-solving, and business reputation. Cathy spent nearly a decade with Berry Global Group, Inc. as the VP and General Counsel, where she also founded Berry's D&I strategic initiative. Over the years, she has honed her skills in developing strategy, leading global teams and initiatives, delivering results in fast-paced environments, collaborating with people at all organizational levels, working with people on different teams and in different regions, project management, change management, managing outside resources, and developing alliances and networking.

Dr. Pedrazzoli graduated in 2010 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Trento (Italy) and Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2014 from the University of Trento, after spending his second half of graduate studies working at the Georgia Institute of Technology. For his Ph.D., he worked on the development of advances polymers and composites applied to the automotive and aerospace industries.

Diego joined Case Western Reserve University (Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering) as a Research Associate in the Fall 2014 with the aim of developing electrically-conductive fiber-reinforced composites for damage monitoring applications. Diego joined BNNT, LLC in 2016 as Materials Scientist with the aim to develop polymer nanotubes from the whiteboard to the R&D apparatus to the factory. He later joined Johns Manville in 2017 as Sr. Research Engineer to support (1) product/process/technology development, (2) new business development and (3) intellectual property development and joint collaborations with external parties.

Jonathan is the Director of Market Development and Sustainability at Pregis, where he leads the market segmentation strategy development and execution along with all facets of flexible packaging sustainability focused on providing innovative products and services that Protect, Preserve, & Inspyre. Jonathan joined Pregis in June of 2021.

Jonathan is recognized as an expert in the areas of Packaging Sustainability, consumer insight and voice of consumer associated with packaging. He has conducted extensive consumer research on the e-Commerce and consumer packaged goods sectors. Prior to joining Pregis, Jonathan most recently held Marketing leadership roles at NOVA Chemicals. Additionally, he has held sales leadership and business development roles at Illinois Tool Works Zip-Pak division, the COESIA Group, and Multisorb Technologies.

Dr. Sanders received her undergraduate degree from Xavier University of Louisiana in Chemistry. After receiving a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry and completing postdoctoral research, Sherrika enjoyed a 9-year career as a Senior Scientist, Technical Services Scientist, and Group Leader for The Dow Chemical Company. Following her tenure at Dow, Sherrika became the R&D Director at Authentix, Inc. located in Dallas, TX. In this role, she managed development, formulation, scale-up, quality and commercialization of markers for authentication solutions while also leading the Environmental, Health and Safety function for the Company.

Eloa has experience as an HR Business Partner for different areas in industrial companies. She has 11 years experience in talent development and management of HR processes and programs for different countries (Brazil, US, Mexico and Germany). She has focused on building and managing processes, programs, trainings and tools for people development (Career, Coaching, Mentoring, Succession Planning, Performance management).

Eloa has managed and disseminated a Work Environment and Corporate Culture survey and has managed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in Brazil and in the US. She has designed and deployed her company’s Employee Value Proposition and Employee Experience.

Patricia is a Human Resources executive with 20+ years of experience in multinational companies, different sectors such as Mechanical, Pulp and Paper and chemical industries, Financial Services and Consumer Goods. Extensive experience in HR strategy, talent management, HR business partnering, leadership and organization development, organization redesign, Compensation, DEI and Internal Communication.

Eve is Chief Executive of the SPE Foundation, which supports the development of plastics professionals by funding quality educational programs, grants and scholarships, emphasizing science, engineering, sustainability, and manufacturing while working to create inclusive opportunities for students around the world.

Eve has over 12-years’ experience working to increase gender and racial diversity in STEM fields, STEM-education and non-profit development. She leads the PlastiVan®, a national STEM-based plastics education program for K-12 students.

Sue has been SPE's Director, Member Experience, since February 2018 where she leads a team that is dedicated to improving member value and customer experience. She joined the SPE Team in September 2011 holding positions in the Membership, Events and Marketing areas. Prior to SPE, Sue spent her early career years in manufacturing where she held managerial positions in finance at Unilever, Clairol, and Cytec.