Pankaj Shah was the Chairman of Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP), and Past President of Asian Packaging Federation. He was the Past-President of FCBM and also Chairman of R&D and Technical Committee of FCBM.
He is Mechanical Engineer with Post-Graduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University, USA. He is well-known and respected for technical innovativeness and analytical approach. He is the Managing Partner of Mehta Paper Industries and Managing Director of Nova Machineries Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. R. H. G. Rau is a leading management consultant promoting organizational excellence as a business strategy. As an expert trainer, he facilitated over 3000 performance enhancement teams, with annual savings running over several crores of Rupees.
He has over 40 years experience and served with distinction in the fields of quality, technology, research, manufacturing and marketing.
He is member of many leading associations and institutions in the field of Quality Management.
Dr. Rau is currently an Adjunct Professor at NMIMS University, a leading Indian business school.

R. Srinivasan joined ITC’s Tobacco Division in 1974 after receiving a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur. He has overall responsibilities for ITC’s Paperboards and Specialty Papers, Packaging & Printing, Education & Stationery Products, Safety Matches and Agarbattis businesses.
He is a Director of ITC Infotech India Limited and its subsidiaries, ITC Infotech Limited, UK & ITC Infotech (USA) Inc, Asia Tobacco Company Limited and Wimco Ltd. He serves on the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Packaging, Mumbai. He is a member of the Chamber Committee of The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Arup K. Sengupta is a Fellow of Institute of Packaging, UK.
He is Consultant, Corporate Packaging Development to Converters & MNCs in India & Europe. International Packaging Consultant – International Trade Centre, Geneva – ITC / UNCTAD / WTO. Project Adviser ‘Packaging Value Projects’ – Packaging Association, Brazil. Technical Reviewer, Packaging Technology & Science Journal, USA in collaboration with Michigan School of Packaging (MSU), USA.

AL. Annamalai is a Mechanical Engineer. He has also done course in Packaging conducted by the Indian Institute of Packaging.
He has undergone Hands-on practical training in 5-ply Automatic Corrugator and Printer Slotter in Japan, with Nakatsugawa Dambor Kogyo, Kachigawa.
He is the Past President of FCBM and the Managing Director of India Packaging Products (P) Ltd. Bangalore.

Manish Patel is a B.E. Hons. in Chemical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and MBA from the University of Michigan.
He is the Managing Director of South India Paper Mills.
South India Paper Mills is a 50-year old paper manufacturing company that caters primarily, to the corrugated packaging industry.

Ludwig Anckaert is the Director of L.A. Consulting.
He started his career in the Packaging industry in 1992 by joining SCA Packaging.
In 2001 he started to work on a freelance basis and took up responsibilities for Turn arounds and delivering support on continuous improvement and implementation of best practices in companies all over the world. Early 2005, he was appointed Technical Director of the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO).

Archie Brown – A veteran of the corrugated box industry with 40+ years experience in the manufacture in the U.K., Cyprus & Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Malaysia.
Based in Bangkok for last 16 years offering second hand machinery, consumables and consultancy service to the box makers in South East Asia, India, Middle East, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean
Bazin.
In addition, operates an anilox roll cleaning service in Thailand using an an air pressure driven baking soda spraying machine.

Satish Kapur is the Managing Partner of Trident Trading Corporation, which is one of the leading corrugated box manufacturing companies of Kolkata. He has been in the packaging business since 1963.
Mr. Kapur is the Past President of the Federation of Corrugated Box Manufacturers of India (FCBM) and has also served on the committee of the International Corrugated Case Association (ICCA).
He is also the Hony. Consul for Finland, in Eastern India and Hony. Director & Treasurer of the Consular Corps of Kolkata.

John Hamer has been in design and sales of corrugating and converting equipment and has over 30 years experience.
He has worked with Fosber of Italy, and Tecasa of Spain, marketing a range of conversion machines in the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the USA. More recently, John has been working with companies such as Signode, marketing end-of-line equipment such as strappers and stretch wrappers along with consumables such as strap and stretch film.
John is now offering his services and knowledge as a consultant and is helping Macarbox of Spain to launch their new range of corrugated conversion machines into the market.

Patrick Mafrici has started Industrial Engineering, Management and Training.
Started working in the corrugator industry in 1969 in Australia.
He was also involved in the corrugator rolls development with a German company FRIESE and also as a consultant to Brently Engineering, an Australian based company.
In 2004 he joined BHS Germany as technical manager for their New Corrugator rolls, factory in China, where he is currently working.

Ram Kumar Sunkara has a Master Degree in Physics from Mumbai and 25 years experience in the manufacturer of boxes, paper tubes, paper bags, paper, etc.
He is the R&D Chairman FCBM Vice Chairman of WICMA R&D Centre. He is also a Governing Body Member of Indian Institute of Packaging and presently working as consultant to the industry.

Harish Madan is a renowned name in the field of corrugated packaging. He is presently the Director of Securipax Packaging (P) Ltd., Roorkee.
He was Past-President of FCBM and has been actively associated with NICMA and FCBM and contributed significantly to the growth of NICMA and FCBM.

Weine Wider is the Sales and Marketing Manager, Emba Machinery, Sweden, in Middle East and Asia. He has been in the corrugated paper board industry since 1969. As a mechanical engineer, in his early years, he was organising and setting up new corrugated plants. During that time he started with EMBA and since 1981 he has been in the service of EMBA. He has got an experience of 32 years in the corrugating industry.

Dr. Paul Singh is Professor at the School of Packaging, Michigan State University. He has served as a technical and legal expert to various companies, federal agencies and international organizations addressing problems related to Packaging, Machinery, Material Handling, and Transportation. He is past Chair of Division 1, D-10 Packaging Committee at ASTM.
He serves on the Board of International Association of Packaging Research Institutes and International Safe Transit Association. He is a lifetime Certified Packaging Professional and Fellow of ASTM and IOPP.
He provides consultation on a contract basis to assist projects related to packaging.

Koushik Saha is M.S. Packaging Science, Michigan State University and M.S. Food Science, University of Florida.
He is currently pursing a Doctoral degree in the Packaging Science program at the School of Packaging, Michigan State University. He is a Research Assistant at the Distribution Packaging Lab at School of Packaging.