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Judges for the 2025 �ղⱹ���® Sustainable Healthcare Packaging Awards 

Thierry Wagner, ���Ǵ���

Thierry Wagner has spent over 30 years working for ���Ǵ��� in its polyester films and nonwovens businesses and is currently the Global Director, Regulatory & Standards – Healthcare, ���Ǵ��� – Safety & Construction. He is convenor of ISO/TC 198/WG7 “Sterilization of Health Care Products—Packaging” and CEN/ TC 102/WG4 “Sterilizers and associated equipment for processing of medical devices – Packaging”, past-chairman of the Sterile Barrier Association (SBA), member of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) and actively involved in various ISO and CEN technical committees on medical and pharmaceutical packaging, sterilization and aseptic processing. Thierry is also a member of ISO/TC 210 in charge of ISO 13485 and medical device symbols (ISO 15223 series), ASTM Committee F02 and of the CEN Advisory Board for Healthcare Standards - Europe (CEN ABHS). He earned a master's degree in mechanical and process engineering from ETH Zürich in Switzerland. He is a featured speaker at international conferences and seminars on medical and pharmaceutical packaging regulatory aspects.

Kelsey Bergan, ���Ǵ���

Kelsey serves as the Global Sustainability Leader for ���Ǵ��� Personal Protection within the Water & Protection Business, where she develops climate and sustainability action plans. She has a passion for bringing together diverse groups of stakeholders to deliver solutions to complex sustainability challenges. Prior to joining ���Ǵ��� in 2021, Kelsey managed corporate sustainability programs in the distribution and transportation sectors. She holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. Kelsey received a BS in Environmental Science from Drexel University and a MS in Applied Geosciences from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the Harvard University Executive Education in Sustainability Leadership Program. Kelsey and her husband live in Hampton Roads, VA and where they love to spend time outdoors with their young children.

Tracy  Taszarek, Antea Group and Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC)

Tracy Taszarek is a people-focused Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) professional with over two decades of experience managing EHS programs across office, manufacturing, and field-based environments. Known for her strong communication skills and collaborative approach, she is passionate about ensuring compliance and driving continuous improvement in workplace health and safety. Tracy leads the (HPRC), a private technical consortium of industry peers across the manufacturing, healthcare, and recycling industries seeking to improve the recyclability of plastic products and packaging used within healthcare.

Nina Minney, Vizient

Nina Minney leads corporate sustainability at Vizient, a performance improvement company serving the U.S. healthcare industry. Prior to joining Vizient, Nina led ESG advisory projects at Antea Group and worked closely with the (HPRC), a private technical consortium of manufacturing, healthcare‌ and recycling leaders seeking to improve circularity of plastic products and packaging used in healthcare. Nina also helped launch the ESG program at a publicly traded software company and oversaw the publication of its first two sustainability reports. Her earlier experience includes public relations, reputation management and corporate communications for industries including technology, manufacturing and mobility. She is based in Dallas, Texas.

KarlHeinz Haussmann, Dow

Dr Karlheinz Hausmann, Sr Advisor with Dow Europe GmbH in Horgen, Switzerland is holding a doctoral degree in Material Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and a Engineering degree of the FAU (Friedrich Alexander Universität) Erlangen-Nürnberg He has more than 30 years of experience in polyethylen and ethylene copolymers. He joined ���Ǵ��� in 1987 in Geneva to work Packaging and Industrial Business Unit. Here he had a number of R&D and Technical and Market Development assignments including packaging, polymer modification, cosmetic packaging and automotive and started the development of ���Ǵ���s reactive modifier and compatibilizer business for polymer modification and recycling. As global sustainability leader he has been contributing to the development of the sustainability strategy of ���Ǵ���s Packaging and Industrial Polymers business unit After the merger between ���Ǵ��� and Dow in 2017 he has been heavily involved in Sustainability aspects associated with recycling and lightweighting of packaging Structures as SR TS&D Fellow at Dow Europe in Horgen, Switzerland In his current function as Sr Advisor he is also representing Dow in various industry Organisations and working groups on circular economy aspects such as CEFLEX, RecyClass and PCEP. Karlheinz serves also as elected member of the steering boards of both CEFLEX and RecyClass organisations.

Dr. Maria F. Cabrera, Umpierrez

Dr. Maria F. Cabrera-Umpierrez holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Department of Photonic Technology and Bioengineering at the same university. She serves as the Innovation Director for the Life Supporting Technologies Research Group (LifeSTech), Secretary of the ACTIVAGE.ORG Association, and Treasurer of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). She is national expert for the European ACCESSIBLE EU resource centre on accessibility. Dr. Cabrera-Umpierrez works as a coordinator and PI on competitive research projects funded by both the European Union and Spanish institutions. She is the coordinator of the ENKORE IHI project that aims to reduce waste and improve sustainability in the design of medical devices and packaging. Her expertise spans a wide range of applications in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), applied to sectors such as healthcare, social inclusion, and cultural heritage. This includes the personalization of services, clinical pathways, human-machine interaction, mobility and accessibility. She is co-founder of the IEEE-BHI women in engineering initiative. Dr. Cabrera-Umpierrez has authored more than 120 scientific articles published in national and international journals.