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.

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.

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.

Eve Vitale, SPE Foundation Executive, was recruited in 2016 to expand the PlastiVan® program. She holds a BS in mechanical engineering and an MS in manufacturing engineering. She spent 8 months on the road delivering the program to thousands of students to find ways to increase its impact. She and her husband own an engineering consulting business specializing in plastics manufacturing and sustainability.

Sue is the SPE Chief Operations Officer since July 2022. 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.