Archives: Speakers.

Dr. Gehan Eltanany

Dr Gehan Eltanany is a Technical Marketing Manager Performance Coatings at Lubrizol Advanced Materials.

Stephen Winrow

Since June 2021 at Covestro with current role as Head of Sales & Application development EMLA Architectural and Construction. From July 2020 until April 2021 (acquisition of RFM business of DSM by Covestro), responsible for the Architectural Resins Business in EMEA in DSM. Professional Recent Career in coatings sector as Commercial and Managing Director at… Read more »

Xabier Zaldua

After earning his Master’s degree in Chemistry, Xabier Zaldua started his career of more than 25 years in the polymers, paints, and food ingredients industries. For the past 15 years, Zaldua has served as Commercial Director of the Grinding & Dispersion division of the NETZSCH group for Spain and Portugal. Throughout this time he has… Read more »

Ana Pérez

Ana Pérez has a degree in Biology for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1997). She has been part of Thor’s staff for more than twenty years, working mainly in the regulatory and quality area. During all this time she has been linked to the product safety aspects of the industrial biocides business line. She is… Read more »

Dr. Javier Raya

Javier Raya has a degree in Organic Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​where he also completed his doctoral thesis in the field of organic synthesis of products of natural origin. He accumulates more than 20 years of experience in the coatings sector, in functions such as research, development and production. Its main lines… Read more »

Annika Mergner

Annika  was born in May 1985 in Schönebeck. She is graduated in Dresden in 2003 and then studied chemistry in Hamburg. After graduation she worked in a medium-sized company until the beginning of 2014, where she was involved in sol-gel processes for surface coating. Until mid 2021 Annika worked at Eckart in the Graphic Art… Read more »

Eric Oude

Eric brings with 30 years of experience in the coating industry added value to your coating challenge. He started his career developing Car Refinish products, moved via his eagerness to learn the application skills towards technical service. Later he worked at different international raw material suppliers to combine the raw material knowledge with formulation and… Read more »