Louise is an electrical engineer by training and a seasoned Food & Beverage manufacturing executive with a diverse experience-set spanning engineering, maintenance, operations and quality. Her 35+ year career has included serving in global and national leadership roles at Unilever, along with stints earlier in her career at H.J. Heinz, Kraft and GE.
Before Saphineia, Louise spent 25 years at Unilever, where she held a series of global and national leadership roles in manufacturing and quality.
In Quality, Louise had responsibility for quality across Unilever’s external partnerships across food and non-food; her earlier quality roles covered FSQA for Foods & Ice Cream and Global Quality Excellence for manufacturing.
Earlier, Louise was Quality, Innovation and Mix Plant Manager and held other manufacturing and maintenance roles in Unilever’s Ice Cream business. Across these roles, she built teams from the ground up and implemented operations, maintenance, and quality systems that improved reliability and unlocked capacity.
Louise began her career in project engineering and engineering services at Kraft and H.J. Heinz.
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