People on the move July 2015
Performance Packaging appoints vice president of R&D
Performance Packaging announces Joseph Dunn has joined the company in the newly created position of vice president of research and development and regulatory affairs.
Dr Dunn’s responsibilities include researching, supporting, evaluating and managing the innovation development process as well as overseeing plant operations for Blue Kangaroo, the original pouch filler, a liquid food contract packaging facility that will open by the end of 2015.
He will also provide support to the sales teams with new market entries, technologies, customer projects and product formulations/analysis.
Blair Vance, vice president of sales and marketing, said: “His academic achievements, combined with a wealth of knowledge and expertise in extremely technical aspects of packaging, will add incredible value to our customers’ products as well as to our expanding services and capabilities.”
Dr Dunn is the author of more than 25 patents, and invented the use of pulsed light for packaging sterilization. He was a primary developer of pulsed electric field processing in the US, and authored numerous refereed publications, eight book chapters, and has been a speaker at over 100 international conferences on technological and regulatory issues of sterilization science.
His executive experience includes president and CEO of NanoMed Technologies and laboratory director and chief safety officer of Pilot Aseptic Technologies.
Dr Dunn was also the director of technology assessment for The National Center for Food Safety & Technology at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in addition to serving as the chief scientist for research and development for Automatic Liquid Packaging.
He has worked closely with the Food Safety and Nutrition Division of the US Food and Drug Administration on new food processing technologies.
Specifically relating to food and packaging, his formulation experience includes a two-year program that led to the production of food products for US armed forces personnel.
Additional military work included participation in the development of an energy drink used by the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Other beverage formulations included flavored waters, fruit smoothies, hot-filled beverages, cold-filled carbonated beverages and nutraceutical beverages for nutritionally/genetically deficient children.