SynBioBeta Speaker

Amy Trejo

Procter & Gamble Company

Dir. Hair Care Sustain.

Amy is the R&D Director of Hair Care Sustainability at the Procter & Gamble Company. She began her career with P&G in Cincinnati, OH in 1998 after completing her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University. She has gone on to become a proven innovation leader with over 25 years of experience in the consumer goods industry. She is skilled in product innovation, R&D, fast-moving consumer goods, open innovation and product development. In her career at P&G she has worked across a variety of categories and functions with focus in Life Sciences in service of P&G’s Health & Beauty focused businesses. She has contributed to the development of products supporting brands such as Olay, H&S, Pantene and Align. She currently leads Hair Care R&D teams in the development of superior beauty and personal care products and technologies that are sustainable.

Sessions Featuring

Amy

This Year

Fireside Chat

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9:40 AM

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10:00 AM

Planetary Health

Got to Have It: Bio-Derived Ingredients that Drive Meaningful Performance, Delight, and Craveability in Consumer Products

Biotechnology is enabling a new generation of ingredients that elevate both product performance and sustainability. In this fireside chat, leaders from Procter & Gamble will discuss how biotech is being applied across key material classes to enhance consumer products, highlighting innovations behind their latest Native launch and emerging bio-derived ingredients for hair and beauty. The conversation will also explore how biotech platforms are helping shape the future of high-performing, sustainable consumer goods.

Featuring

Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia

Procter & Gamble

Sr. Dir., Research Fellow

Builds biotech “from microbes to marketplace” at consumer scale.

Amy Trejo

Procter & Gamble Company

Dir. Hair Care Sustain.

Bridges biology and big brands

Mikah Coffindaffer

Procter & Gamble

R&D Director

John Cumbers

SynBioBeta

Founder & CEO

Founder of SynBioBeta: synthetic biology’s global connector and storyteller

Fireside Chat

•

9:40 AM

-

10:00 AM

Planetary Health

Got to Have It: Bio-Derived Ingredients that Drive Meaningful Performance, Delight, and Craveability in Consumer Products

Biotechnology is enabling a new generation of ingredients that elevate both product performance and sustainability. In this fireside chat, leaders from Procter & Gamble will discuss how biotech is being applied across key material classes to enhance consumer products, highlighting innovations behind their latest Native launch and emerging bio-derived ingredients for hair and beauty. The conversation will also explore how biotech platforms are helping shape the future of high-performing, sustainable consumer goods.

Featuring

Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia

Procter & Gamble

Sr. Dir., Research Fellow

Builds biotech “from microbes to marketplace” at consumer scale.

Amy Trejo

Procter & Gamble Company

Dir. Hair Care Sustain.

Bridges biology and big brands

Mikah Coffindaffer

Procter & Gamble

R&D Director

John Cumbers

SynBioBeta

Founder & CEO

Founder of SynBioBeta: synthetic biology’s global connector and storyteller

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