Ray WODAR is a Global Director of Business Consulting for the Consumer Packaged Goods & Retail Industry at Dassault Systèmes (DS). Ray has been with the DS team for 17 years and has more than 20+ years’ experience focused on Innovation platform strategies in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Life Sciences, and Specialty Chemical industries. Portfolio breadth includes best practice industry solution experiences for R&D formulation and materials development, Packaging Design and Simulation, Manufacturing Production and Supply Chain optimization. In his time with Dassault Systèmes, Ray has been responsible for R&D product strategy and industry value consulting functions within these industries worldwide.
Allison WRIGHT is an Industry Processing Consultant working in the NAM Technical Sales team at Dassault Systèmes supporting our formulations business. Prior to working at DS, Allison has 20 years of experience focused on formulations and the full product development process in leading CPG and Cosmetic Industries. Allison’s skills include leading global projects from ideation to launch, formulation management and lab and stability testing.