IFF Appoints Dr. Shekhar Mitra to Scientific Advisory Board
March 23 2015 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF), a
leading global creator of flavors and fragrances for consumer
products, announced that Dr. Shekhar Mitra, President of
Innopreneur LLC and Premium Consulting Partner at YourEncore, Inc.,
is appointed to the Company’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
effective immediately. He replaces Dr. Brian Willis, former Senior
Vice President of R&D and Board member of Quest Flavors and
Fragrances (UK and Netherlands), who is retiring from the SAB.
Led by Dr. Ahmet Baydar, Senior Vice President, R&D, the SAB
provides external perspectives on a number of facets of IFF’s
R&D program to help deliver on the Company’s innovation
strategy.
“Technological advances and discoveries that help differentiate
our customers’ products are critical to our success. Our R&D
function is the incubator of these innovations and the SAB provides
important and diverse points of view that lead to fantastic
solutions for our customers,” said IFF CEO Andreas Fibig.
“We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Mitra to IFF’s SAB and thank Dr.
Willis for his contributions over the past three years,” said Dr.
Baydar. “Dr. Mitra is a well-respected innovation leader who has
led the creation and development of technology platforms and
disruptive innovation strategies that have resulted in well-known
consumer products. The addition of his skills and depth of
knowledge will complement the strength of our SAB and provide a
tremendous value to our organization.”
Prior to joining YourEncore, Dr. Mitra served as Senior VP of
Global Corporate R&D, Salon Professional, Prestige and New
Business Creation for Procter & Gamble. In addition to his
corporate responsibilities, Dr. Mitra serves on the Board of
Directors of Orabush Inc. and 2 X Consumer Growth Partners. He is a
member of the Board of Advisors for Vyome Biosciences and Silicon
Arts Laboratories.
About IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE: IFF) is a
leading global creator of flavors and fragrances used in a wide
variety of consumer products. Consumers experience these unique
scents and tastes in fine fragrances and beauty care, detergents
and household goods, as well as beverages, sweet goods and food
products. The Company leverages its competitive advantages of
consumer insight, research and development, creative expertise, and
customer intimacy to provide customers with innovative and
differentiated product offerings. A member of the S&P 500
Index, IFF has more than 6,200 employees working in 32 countries
worldwide. For more information, please visit our website at
www.iff.com.
IFFMichael DeVeau, 212-708-7164VP, Global Corporate
Communications & Investor RelationsMichael.DeVeau@iff.com
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