Mark has joined Kenray from PepsiCo International, where over a long career, he gained increasing responsibility within foods packaging, ultimately leading a team of 10 packaging professionals servicing Europe, Africa & Middle East.

His responsibilities are to provide materials advice, selection, optimisation and best practice to Kenray’s customers, and also furthering continuous improvement within Kenray’s technical function.

Mark is an established inventor, with 3 international patents assigned, and has spent the majority of his working life in R&D, entering the industry with the multinational Engineering company GKN, subsequently working in the plastics processing industry, and special purpose machinery design & build, before a long and colourful career with PepsiCo.

He has a wealth of experience of a wide range of foods packaging technologies and their associated materials, particularly sustainable materials of late.  He is a certified Kaizen leader, and has successfully led numerous overseas food packaging projects in the EAME region in locations such as Israel, South Africa, Egypt, Russia, Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Saudi Arabia.

Networked and knowledgeable, he prides himself on being solution focused, never short of ideas and enthusiasm, and enjoys motivating and inspiring others.

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