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ELENI CHIOTELLI

Food Research & Innovation leader
French

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ELENI CHIOTELLI
49 years old
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Paris France
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Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
Food Technologist & food passionate, PhD

My specific strengths: strongly creative drive, entrepreneurial management style, results oriented, always seeking to learn and discover new possibilities and new ways of doing things, team player & leader.

My inspiration: Co-lead the transformation of alimentation through consumer-centric, business relevant and pragmatic, still creative, innovation approaches, in open and agile mode, leveraging eco-systems.

My motivations: bring on the market relevant and more sustainable food solutions for people & planet, open tastes & minds through food, leverage team potential to achieve superior results.
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Experiences

Head of R&I Design (Plant based, Drinks, Fresh Products) DANONE FRANCE

DANONE RESEARCH
2022 to 2023
  • Leading a team of Product Design managers to ensure both strong exploration (design of user centric value propositions) and excellence in delivery of the innovation/renovation pipeline cross-categories.
  • Drive inno agenda in EU by anticipating innovation business opportunities (vision), building them from scratch and landing them to projects and products in CBUs (PB porridge, healthy ageing, protein water, alu can..)
  • EU R&I CODI roadmap stream leader (new channels expansion)
  • EU 3PM R&I leader
  • AFH EU CODI member
  • Strategic Innovation projects R&I leader (Danone du Monde)
  • Les Deux Vaches, Danone Professional and Innovation Group Leader
  • Danonino, Velouté & Innovation Brand Manager
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  • Senior scientist for key innovation programs in Dairy business (Nutrition-Health Innovation-Product dévelopment)
  • Project leader antioxydants and polyphenols in plant extracts
  • Research scientist raw materials functional role in biscuit doughs
  • Teaching of practical work and lectures to engineering school students
  • Research in Physico-Chemistry lab
  • Supervision and coordination of students and researhers work
  • Study of the rheological behaviour of cereal-based products
Interests

Sensory experiences

  • Participation to sensory evaluation panels (dairy, wine..)

Sports

  • Pilates, basketball, squash, football

Other

  • Music & Books lover
Skills

Business Driver

  • Ability to develop a vision, implement strategies, engage and put in place
  • Strong business sense & strategic view on innovation
  • Agile thinking, quickly grasping new ideas/concepts and connecting them to business opportunities
  • Collaborative inside & outside leveraging networks and ecosystems (open innovation)
  • Design to Superior Value approach for profitable growth

Research & Development

  • Dairy & Plant based products formulation & process to deliver innovation and renovation pipeline
    Product and process development with a 360 degree view: integration of Marketing and Consumer tools to generate relevant innovation & renovation concepts, product brief co-built, design formulation to meet the product brief, apply quality and technology standards and specifications for sourcing, include regulatory constrains, lead pilot and factory trials to deliver prototypes and implement and launch NPD product.
  • Building, implementation and management of scientific plan: clinical and preclinical studies
  • Development of scientific collaborations (experts, KOLs, research instituts, public organisations)
  • Suppliers collaboration animation
  • Functional ingredients evaluation

Project & People Management

  • Breakthrough Innovation projects lead from define to launch in multiple EU countries
  • Capacity to inspire, engage and motivate multi-cultural teams (recruitment, talents management, mentoring, coaching, évaluation)
    team build and animation, objectives set , follow up an evaluation, tasks priorisation, decision making, development support and manager coatch, growth potential evaluation
  • Projects Portfolio management
  • Budget management

Langues

  • Greek: mother tongue
  • French : fluent both written and spoken
  • English: fluent both written and spoken
  • Spanish: beginner
Education

PhD Food Science

University of Bourgundy (AgroSup Dijon)

September 1998 to May 2002
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DEA Food Science

University of Bourgundy (AgroSup Dijon)

September 1997 to July 1998

Food Technologist

School of Food Technology and Nutrition, Thessaloniki, Greece

September 1993 to August 1997
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