Solvay

Steering Solvay towards innovation and sustainability while laying the groundwork for future executive leadership.

• Transforming and shaping the innovation portfolio to align with long-term business goals, promoting growth, sustainability, and reinforcing industry leadership.

• Implementing Generative AI solutions within the Business Unit, enabling a surge in speed and efficiency in our R&D operations.

• Catapulted innovative technology improvements, operational excellence, and energy transition, achieving a colossal >40% reduction in CO2 emissions since 2018. This propelled us towards carbon neutrality.

• Overhauled lab specifications and standardization, providing critical analytical services. Boosted Solvay’s licensing business, generating €2 million annually.

• Coordinated global network of 18 labs, ensuring integrity and reliability of €200 million chemical assets, bolstering key business operations and quality standards.

Process Innovation Manager (R&I) - GBU Peroxides

Propelled operational excellence and strategic alignment, setting the stage for subsequent leadership roles.

• Spearheaded procedural optimization across 18 global chemical plants, bolstering annual turnover of €1 billion.

• Coordinated with technical teams, facilitated industrialization and start-up of new production units. Implemented technology improvement programs, ensuring efficient ramp-up to full capacity.

• Championed the implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies, driving significant efficiency and productivity gains across all operations.

GBU Peroxides Technology Engineer & Digital Champion

Managed process engineering, production, utilities, and laboratory services while also overseeing demolition operations to improve site layout. Ensured strict adherence to safety and quality standards, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance.

• Transformed energy efficiency in the sodium chlorate unit, achieving a 4% improvement. This resulted in significant cost savings and a reduced environmental impact, demonstrating my commitment to sustainability and cost control.

• Directed the ISO 17025 laboratory, supervising the lab team to ensure strict quality control of our products while also delivering external analytical services (waste waters).

• Led team, executed safe demolition of deactivated plants, revamped layout, achieving complex operation with zero incidents.

Production Engineer & Analytical Services Manager

Ensured compliance and spearheaded improvement projects in environmental areas, fostering a culture of safety.

• Guided strategic environmental decisions through technical evaluations, improving company’s sustainability compliance with 30% decrease in TSS and 50% reduction in N-NH4.

• Maintained and strengthened positive relations with Portuguese authorities, enhancing cross-functional team leadership and stakeholder management.

• Prepared and submitted comprehensive environmental reports, demonstrating strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Deputy HSE Manager

APQuímica - Associação Portuguesa da Química, Petroquímica e Refinação

Key contributor in APQuímica's advocacy and regulatory affairs, aligning the Portuguese chemical industry with EU directives. Instrumental in engaging with authorities and associations, advancing industry interests in critical legislations like IPPC, REACH, and ETS.

• Served as a key liaison between the chemical industry and public authorities for IPPC, REACH, and ETS, achieving recognition as the Portuguese expert in Cefic’s REACH Experts Network.

• Instrumental in shaping industry responses and compliance strategies regarding critical EU regulations, demonstrating strong stakeholder management and regulatory standards expertise.

• Cultivated and leveraged extensive expertise in EU environmental and safety regulations, providing invaluable guidance to member companies, facilitating effective compliance strategies.

Technical Advisor for Responsible Care

In a world where innovation intersects with sustainability, my career is driven by a profound vision to champion sustainable innovation for a better world.

I am Nuno, a senior innovation leader with over 18 years of experience in the chemical industry. My expertise spans plant operations, lab management, global R&D leadership, and innovation management. Starting my career in engineering roles in Portugal and advancing to strategic leadership positions in Belgium, I have consistently prioritized merging innovative strategies with sustainable practices.

As Process Innovation Manager at Solvay's GBU Peroxides, I led initiatives that resulted in a significant reduction of CO2 emissions by over 40% since 2018. This achievement highlights the successful integration of sustainability into our core business operations. Beyond environmental impact, I have refined licensing business models by providing analytical services to Solvay's licensees, generating over €2M annually.

My leadership extends to building strategic partnerships with universities, research institutes, and other external stakeholders, securing €20 million in grants for innovative and sustainable solutions. I am committed to mentoring the next generation of professionals and actively collaborate with educational institutions to promote STEM and R&D partnerships, aiming to inspire sustainable future advancements.

Looking ahead, my focus is on leveraging technology, innovation, and sustainability as foundational drivers of growth and corporate responsibility within large organizations or international institutions. My goal is to guide these efforts, ensuring that innovative and sustainable solutions achieve significant societal, environmental, and economic benefits.

I am eager to connect with organizations and individuals that prioritize visionary leadership and pragmatic approaches to innovation and sustainability. Together, we can create pathways that harness these strengths, driving progress that benefits our businesses and the broader world.

Let us unite our efforts towards a future that is as innovative as it is sustainable.

Nuno Formiga

FutureScaleX

Principal Consultant

Evalueserve

Past projects:
1. Helped a specialty material company to develop roadmap for green hydrogen offerings for next 5-10 years
2. Helped a crop protection solutions company to understand sustainability parameters in rice &cereals farming and opportunities arising from it in near future

Manager

Worked as a consultant to CEO office of a petrochemical major

FutureBridge

Helping companies to formulate their short, mid and long term strategies. 
Few of the latest projects:

> Helped a US $1.3 billion elastomer company to develop a technology roadmap for 2030
> Helped a brand owner (US $86 billion revenue company) to develop sustainability strategy for 2025–30
> Helped a largest mineral water company with their circular economy strategy for packaging
> Technology identification and  manufacturing economics for plastic waste to olefin production 
> Acquisition target identification and qualification for a electronic chemicals company
> Helped largest furniture company to select technologies that uses biobased raw materials such as Ethanol based, nano-cellulose, etc. to produce relevant chemicals

My Responsibilities in operations:
>> Sub-P&L management 
>> Involved in business development, FLCC, proposal preparation
>> End-to-end project execution
>> Client presentation and regular communications
>> Team building and development: Leading a team of 4 members

Assistant Manager - Strategy Consulting

Few recent strategy consulting projects:
> Battery electrolyte manufacturing economies>> for 2nd largest auto OEM
> Opportunity identification and customer acquisition for specialty metal company>> For 3rd largest rare earth metal company
> Process analytical tools for continuous manufacturing of bio-pharmaceuticals (at-line / in-line / online)>> For 2nd largest bio-pharma company

Project Manager

MarketsandMarkets™

•	Involved in business development activities and sales support 
•	Proposal preparation and presentation to the client. Efforts estimation and resource management
•	Provide revenue impact solutions by conducting value/ supply chain analysis, competitive bench-marking, customer analysis, market sizing, growth outlook
•	Strategic recommendations to the client that include market entry strategies, new product or technology investment, new geography, mergers & acquisitions, etc.
•	Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical & business writing skills and presentation to the client
•	Leading the of team of 5-6, team building, training and coordinating with other team members
•	Financial analysis of companies, cost structure modeling, logistics modeling, financial statement forecasting, break-even point, etc.

Team Lead-Consulting

Providing business research services to global players operating in the field of specialty chemicals & materials, commodity chemicals, food & beverages, agriculture etc. domains, which would help them in their strategy formulation in terms of new product development, new market entry, existing product expansion, margin improvement, make or buy, etc. 

Key competencies:
> End-to-end project execution
> Team / resource handling
> Business research proposal 
> Product-application mapping
> Value chain analysis and Porters five forces model
> PESTLE, SWOT and specific regulatory analysis
> Competitor, customer & technology landscaping
> Pricing and cost structure analysis
> Industry and region attractiveness analysis
> Raw material procurement and logistics analysis

Senior Research Analyst - Consulting

Cheers Interactive

Providing holistic market scenario to global players operating in the field of specialty chemicals & materials, commodity chemicals, etc. domains, which would help them in their strategy formulation. Business research and consulting expertise backed by custom research, analysis & market / industry insights.

Key competencies:
> Primary & secondary research
> Market sizing, segmentation & forecasting
> Product-application mapping
> Value chain analysis and Porters five forces model
> PESTLE, SWOT and specific regulatory analysis
> Competitor, customer & technology landscaping
> Pricing and cost structure analysis
> Industry and region attractiveness analysis
> Raw material procurement and logistics analysis

Business Analyst

Transparency Market Research Pvt. Ltd.

Research Associate

Transparency Market Research

Summer intern

National Institute of Virology

Research Assistant

Indian Institute of Science

Ph.D dropout (Junior research fellow)

National Chemical Laboratory

Research trainee

Helping companies across industries to develop their technology and sustainability roadmaps for next 5–10 years

Expertise in competitive bench marking, techno-economic analysis, industry analysis and management consulting with knowledge in identifying and defining market opportunities, current and emerging trends, substitute and market potential analysis

Experienced in market sizing, technology assessment, manufacturing economies, value chain analysis, financial analysis and comprehending data to derive logical conclusions.

Experienced in client communication, presenting data, analysis and providing strategic recommendations.

Experienced in strategic consulting and providing customized research solutions. Utilizing business research and analysis to provide valuable revenue impact insights to clients in multiple industries such as ICT, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology and chemicals & materials



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