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Cally Edgren is the Global Product Compliance Manager at Kohler Co. She is responsible for developing and implementing programs to ensure products across Kohler’s diverse businesses meet the regulatory requirements in the markets where they are sold. Her specialty is in product environmental compliance tied to composition (including the RoHS Directive and REACH Regulation), energy efficiency, and extended producer responsibilities.

Tim Becker (MA Law, University of Passau/Germany) has been a legal counsel at REACHLaw for more than 10 years. His extensive track record on REACH and related EU/non-EU legislation comprises regulatory advice, policy support and project management. Key consulting assignments include the European Space Agency and ASD-Eurospace (ongoing since 2011), the European Defence Agency (studies on REACH and WFD/SCIP), Eurometaux and various industries globally from manufacturing to distribution and use of chemicals and complex products.

Tim Sheehan is an engineering fellow at Raytheon Technologies, leading chemical regulatory compliance and risk management activities. In his current capacity, Tim leads efforts at the corporate and international aerospace industry levels to develop management approaches to chemical regulatory and material supply risks. Tim also leads Working Group 1 for the International Aerospace Environment Group (IAEG), developing materials and substances declaration support for voluntary use of IPC-1754 in the aerospace and defense industry and in its supply chain. Tim has over 35 years of management experience in chemical and environmental safety and health risk management in private consulting, manufacturing, and governmental settings.

With over 35 years’ experience in technical, systems and standards EHS support. Rob is a member of ISO US TAGs to TC283, TC207 and TC323 and to ANSI Z.10. Rob co-chairs the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to TC111 Environmental standardization for electrical and electronic products and systems, and is co-convenor for the IEC 62474 material declaration Validation Team (VT) 62474 that maintains the list of declarable substances and data exchange format requirements. Rob was the convenor of IEC TC111 Working Group that developed the original IEC 62474 standard and continues to be a named US expert to the IEC TC111 Maintenance Team (MT) 62474. Rob currently is responsible to manage, lead and improve the single, global Siemens Healthineers EHS management system that is currently externally registered to ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018. Rob also is a technical adviser to the Siemens Healthineers global product-related EHS protection team and holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a MS degree in Environmental Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Dan Cretu is Head of Environmental Product Stewardship at Resideo Technologies Inc., a Honeywell International Inc. spin-off. His professional expertise is in environmental product stewardship, design engineering, and marketing and product management, with a main focus on product compliance legislation including the REACH Regulation, RoHS Directive, and Proposition 65.

Patrick Crawford is the Manager for Design Standards and Related Industry Programs at IPC. He currently manages the E-31x committees responsible for the IPC-175x suite of supply chain materials declaration standards. Patrick earned his M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Portland State University in 2017, where he conducted research in applications of nano-scale carbon allotropes and thin-layer metal deposition techniques. Before coming to IPC, Patrick worked in environmental due-diligence, performing small to medium-size environmental site assessments for commercial real-estate transactions.

Valerie specializes in RoHS and REACH implementation processes at large companies, and in extended producer responsibility and conflict minerals processes. She is committed to developing and improving declaration standards, and led the working group for the International Aerospace Environmental Group’s Declarable Substances List pilot project. Before joining Assent, Valerie spent 20 years at Intel, starting in materials and eventually becoming the program manager in charge of its global materials compliance program.

Frederik has been working in-depth with EU Chemical Regulatory issues (e.g. “REACH” and “CLP”) since 2004. He has advised several international chemical companies in business-critical issues and how to implement and manage chemicals and operational compliance issues in day-to-day operations and strategic decision making. He has also set-up REACH consortia within the Pulp & Paper and functioned as the consortium consultant. Frederik is an expert in Environmental Risk Management, EHS Regulatory Compliance, Environmental Management System design and implementation, Environmental Auditing and Assessments. The diversity of his professional experience provides him with excellent insight needed to address the complex mix of business, policy, management, regulatory and technical issues that business management is facing today. He has worked extensively with international industrial and commercial clients across Europe, Russia, Asia, USA and Latin-America. Frederik speaks English, Swedish and Finnish fluently.

James leads Assent’s Regulatory team, providing clients with expertise and insight into the development, implementation and management of their compliance programs. His career spans more than 12 years as a senior expert on product stewardship, regulatory approvals/certifications, product safety and ethical sourcing. Before joining Assent, James spent three years as Rakuten Kobo’s Compliance Officer during the company’s aggressive global expansion. He also spent seven years managing the regulatory team at Intertek, one of the largest certification, testing and consultancies in the world.

Bo, a Belgian national with more than ten years of experience at the European Chemicals Agency, has been leading the project to set up the Scip database of articles containing Candidate List substances as foreseen by the Waste Framework Directive.

Claudia Mensi is a Chemist, Fise-Assoambiente Consultant, and Laboratory Manager, responsible for the homologation of waste at A2A S.p.A. She represents FEAD as an expert on hazardous waste management. The waste management sector needs clear, simple, and usable information on the presence or absence of substances of very high concern in products.

Magnus brings in-depth industry knowledge to manage compliance in the fast-paced IT Industry. With over 13 years of experience in Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) topics he has been navigating a global operating corporation through multiple compliance challenges from WEEE/RoHS over Ecodesign to Circular Economy. On top of managing other ESG projects, he currently holds responsibility for the strategic implementation of REACH SCIP compliance at Lenovo.