Herve Offredo; Skin Whiteners, Marine Ingredients; Harry's Cosmeticology 9th Edition

Mr. Herve Offredo holds a Master's Degree in Biochemistry and Industrial Microbiology; and an Engineering Degree in Applied Industrial Microbiology from the University of Marseilles.  He also holds an MBA in Human Resources and Finance from Nancy University in France. Mr. Offredo is currently the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Barnet Products Corp; suppliers of innovative specialty ingredients for the cosmetic, personal care and pharmaceutical industries

Herve began his career at Abbott Diagnostic and moved to Transia as a Biotech company expert  in food diagnostics. He then applied his wide background to the cosmetic business at Solabia where he spent a long period in Asia and  built an international distribution network and. Upon completion of this work he left France and moved to Barnet in the US, 16 years ago. At Barnet, Mr. Offredo supervises the Sales Organization while spearheading Marketing Innovation. 

In the past two years he has written various technical articles in cosmetic magazines such as Expression Cosmetique.  Subjects covered include Epigenetics and Allosterism. Mr. Offredo is also the author of two chapters in the forthcoming 9th Edition of  Harry's Cosmeticology (www.harryscosmeticology.com).  These chapters comprehensively cover the growing cosmetic categories of Skin Whitening and Marine-Derived Biochemicals. Herve has also served as a panelist for the Innovation in Anti-Aging Panel session at HBA 2013, and presented a talk entitled:“"Three Type of DNA damage;  Four Solutions to fix it "

Delivery Systems, Nripren Sharma, Bryan Grossman, Salvona, Harry's Cosmeticology 9th Ed.

Nripen Sharma, Ph.D.

Clinical Scientist/Project Manager/Technical Support

Salvona Technologies LLC,

65 Stults Rd., Dayton, NJ 08810

www.salvona.com

Dr. Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University. He gained experience as a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School (MA). His research experience was focused on stem cells, biomaterials, and tissue engineering, related to dermatological applications. 

At Salvona Technologies, Dr. Sharma manages the department of "new product development." In this capacity he is in charge of developing new delivery systems for dermatological and consumer care products.

Bryan Grossman

Technology Manager
Salvona Technologies.LLC. 

Bryan is Technology Manager for new product development at Salvona Technologies, LLC and serves as a customer liaison in the custom product development area. He has over 10 years experience with Salvona's products, and previous commercial experience with manufacturing processes of pharmaceutical and consumer care products. 

Bryan holds a degree in Biology from Rutgers University, with a Henry Rutgers scholar award. He joined Salvona in 2004 as a production manager, gained experience with technical sales and marketing, and now has combined these skills in technology and custom product development.

Florence Nacino, Baby Care Anti-Aging Products, Harry's Cosmeticology 9th Ed.

Florence Nacino

Florence Nacino is an independent consultant and founding member of three successful entrepreneurial companies. She has over 30 years experience directing Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Validation, Regulatory Affairs, Technical Operations, and R&D. Florence served as a former Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Puretek Corporation for 19 years. Puretek is a manufacturer of cosmetics, dietary supplements, and pharmaceutical products. Other positions she held at Puretek include Executive Vice President of R&D/Regulatory Affairs to Business Development and Formulator. She has created many health and beauty products sold in mass, prestige, medical, spa and salon markets. Ms. Nacino joined Raffaello Research Laboratories in May 2011 and served for a year as Vice President of Research and Development working with major marketers and movers in the cosmetic field.

Florence has a B.S. Chemistry from the University of the Philippines, an MBA from the University of Phoenix, is an Exemptee of the California Board of Pharmacy, and a Regional Councilor for the FD&C Division of the American Society of Quality. She is an active member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, the Regulatory Affairs Society, Cosmetic Executive Women, the American Chemical Society, and a Board Member of Beauty Industry West. Ms. Nacinois the creator of Earth Baby, a prestige brand of eco-friendly/organic/natural products for babies. She started her own consulting firm, OYE INC  Consulting Group, in January 2011 to help colleagues and stakeholders in the food, drug, and cosmetic industries overcome challenges in formulation, research, product development, validation, sourcing, manufacturing, process, quality, and regulatory affairs. 

Dr. Padmaja Prem, Hair, Harry's Cosmeticology 9th Ed.

Dr. Padmaja Prem,

Dr. Padmaja Prem, VP of Combe’s Global Research and Development team, began her industrial career with Unilever R&D in 1997 as a Research Scientist at the Laundry and Cleansing Division. Later she got promoted to Sr. Research scientist and then to Principal Research scientist.  Padmaja has done extensive research on reactive chemistry, photofading of textile dyes, retinol stabilization, skin and hair melanin chemistry. During her last four years of tenure at Unilever, she has led many projects in the hair colorants division developing new technologies for hair coloring, color protection and hair bleaching. Most of her research findings were published in peer reviewed journals and technologies were patent protected.  

In 2004, Dr. Prem moved to L’Oreal USA leading the Hair Care Product development team responsible for the launch of all Retail and Luxury Hair care products and later all retail hair color products.  Under her leadership, many innovative products were developed and successfully launched driving the growth of L’Oreal Paris, Fructis and Kiehl’s brands.  In 2010, Dr. Prem joined Johnson and Johnson to lead Sun Care and Anti-aging innovation and product development team for Neutrogena and Aveeno brandes.  She has enabled the launch of Neutrogena’s first tear-free baby sunscreen (Pure & Free Baby Faces), Wet Skin baby sunscreen lotion and Clear Face sunscreen for Acne prone skin.  Padmaja has a broad research expertise in reactive chemistry, emulsions and surfactant systems, hair care and hair color, hair bleaching, color chemistry, sun care, photochemistry, radical chemistry, antioxidants and antiaging. 

Karl Lintner, Telomeres, Harry's Cosmeticology 9th Ed.

Karl Lintner

Karl Lintner obtained a Degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Biochemistry from Vienna University in Austria.

After 10 years of Research on Biological Peptides at the Nuclear Research Centre in Saclay, France, he became Laboratory Manager, then Marketing Manager with the HENKEL Company, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Joined SEDERMA in 1990 as Technical Director and later headed the company for ten years as Managing Director.

Presently, Karl  Lintner is an Independent Consultant to the Cosmetic Industry (President of KAL’IDEES S.A.S.).

He was recently appointed Associate Professor at the University of Versailles to teach classes on cosmetic chemistry.

He has filed several dozens of patents, published numerous articles and book chapters on cosmetic ingredients, and is an active member of SCC and SFC (France); he is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cosmetic Science and was the recipient of the Maison de Navarre Medal of the SCC in 2012.