Jacqueline H. Beckley, MBA, is the founder of The Understanding & Insight Group, LLC, Denville, NJ, an innovative business development and strategy firm working with both large and small companies to integrate traditional approaches with new concepts and tools for business growth. Previously, Beckley held positions within industry and consulting, including director of consumer perception at Nabisco, Inc., group manager of sensory research and R&D for the Quaker Oats Company, and research scientist for Amoco Chemical Company. Maria Dulce Paredes, PhD, serves as Director, Consumer Sciences for Avon Products, Inc., Suffern, NY. Leading Avon’s Global R&D’s Consumer Sciences Group, she leverages new consumer insights and research tools to enable development of innovative and meaningful products that meet consumer wants and needs. Previously, she worked for Kraft Foods and the Pepsi Cola Company.
Kannapon Lopetcharat, PhD, is Manager of the Avon Products’ Consumer Science Department (Innovation, New Method Development & Fragrances). In this role Dr. Lopetcharat manages international consumer product insight studies to identify business opportunities, develops predictive models to guide NPD and global strategies for product innovation, and leads consumer insight teams for product innovation to fill the NPD pipeline. Previous assignments were at Unilever Research and Development and Oregon State University.
