Norman Richardson

COMPETENCIES: - 30 years of successful experience working with four global personal care and pharmaceutical companies supporting multiple market-leading brands and excipient sales. - Translation of science into new business opportunities. - Creation of new markets through deep understanding of unmet customer needs - Catalyzing innovation through divergent thinking and implementation of creative methods - Collaboration for success with market leaders, contract organizations, and regulatory agencies. - Creative identification of new functionalities for excipients and formulations to drive new claims and differentiation. - Management of cross-disciplinary, cross-business unit and cross-industry projects and initiatives. - Conversion of technical knowledge into marketing communications and sales tools. - Management of technical activities in microscopy, rheology, spectroscopy, cell biology, biochemistry, physical chemistry and dermal clinical science. - Specialties: topical medical devices, topical semi-solid formulations rheology and material science, microbiology, skin biology