Speaker Biographies

2008 PMF Cosmetic Microbiology Conference

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Jay Ansell, Ph.D.

The Council

Dr Ansell joined the Personal Care Products Council (formerly CTFA) in May 2006 as Senior Director - Cosmetic Programs where he is responsible for providing technical support for the Council staff and various committees and task forces addressing the science and regulation of personal care products. Dr. Ansell came to the Council from Yves Rocher, a France-based personal care products company where he served as Director Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs and previously had been Vice President of Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs at two international specialty chemical companies.

Dr. Ansell has been an invited speaker on topics including safety and risk assessment; he was founder and president of the Council for Advance Agricultural Formulations, chaired both the Alkylphenol Ethoxylates and NMP Producers groups, and currently serves as Chairmen of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC 217 – Cosmetics, and is Vice President of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology.

Trained as a chemist, Dr. Ansell received his BA from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and an MS from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He completed his graduate education at the State University of New York - Binghamton where he was granted a PhD for his work on novel synthetic routes to bioactive materials and was first certified as a Diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology in 1986.

Joyce Beauchamp

L'Oreal

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Eric Brown, Ph.D.

FDA

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Don English

Avon Products, Inc.

Donald J. English Donald English graduated summa cum laude from the University of Charleston with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and has a Master of Science degree from North Carolina State University at Raleigh in Microbiology with a minor in Biochemistry.  

Mr. English has nearly 30 years of experience in industrial microbiology.  He is currently the Senior Manager of the R&D Microbiology Laboratory at Avon Products, Inc. in Suffern, New York, USA.  He is responsible for supervising the R&D Microbiology Laboratory that conducts the following types of studies: microbiological content testing of raw materials and new product formulations; sanitizer/disinfectant evaluation; validation of laboratory test methods; investigation of new microbiological testing technologies; preservative challenge testing of new prototype product and marketed product formulations; sterilization studies; environmental testing; identification of microorganisms; Quality Control microbiological release testing; and provides microbiological technical support to the microbiology laboratories for the worldwide Avon manufacturing facilities.  In addition, he is responsible for establishing corporate microbiological policies regarding Quality Assurance and Good Manufacturing Practices.  

Before joining Avon, Mr. English worked at Schering-Plough Corporation in the microbiology laboratories of the Research Division and Quality Assurance and at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (formerly the Block Drug Company).

Mr. English is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, Society of Industrial Microbiology, Parenteral Drug Association, and AOAC International.  In addition, he is an active member of the CTFA Microbiology Committee and the Quality Assurance Committee.  He was the past chairperson of the CTFA Microbiology Committee.

Phil Geis, Ph.D.
The Procter & Gamble Company

Philip A. Geis Ph.D. is a native Texan who earned bachelor and doctor of philosophy degrees in microbiology from The University of Texas.  His career in microbiology began in the clinical lab, moving commercial media production and in 1981 to The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G).  Through over two decades at P&G, Phil has managed preservative and disinfectant development and qualification, the study of household and skin microbial ecologies and manufacturing micro quality.  He has also carried responsibilities for environmental and regulatory affairs and formulation chemistry for which he is co-inventor for a number of domestic and international patents.  He has published, lectured and represented P&G’s technical interests on subjects of applied microbiological and environmental policy and edited the most recent edition of the successful Cosmetic Microbiology: A Practical Handbook.   Phil brings unique global technical experience in diverse regulatory, manufacturing, product quality and consumer realities for a range of consumer products from OTC drugs to salted snacks. 

John Krowka, Ph.D.

Personal Care Products Council

Dr. Krowka joined the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association (later renamed PPPC) in October 2005 as a Senior Environmental Scientist.  In this capacity, he provides administrative and technical support for CTFA members and staff as well as for the CTFA Microbiology, Environmental, and Air Quality Committees, the CTFA/SDA Antimicrobial Coalition, and the ISO Microbiology Work Group of TC-217 (Cosmetics). He is currently an editor of the 2007 CTFA Microbiology Guidelines.  

He is a native of Flushing, NY and received a B.Sc. from the University of Vermont, a M.S. from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of Alberta (Canada). He has published many scientific papers, particularly in the field of AIDS/HIV. Prior to joining CTFA, he had extensive experience in industry, academia, and the public sector and was involved with private consulting assignments and teaching General and Food Microbiology courses in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a resident of Boonsboro, MD.

David Steinberg

Steinberg and Associates

David Steinberg earned his BS in Chemistry from Drexel University in 1965 and his MBA in Management Pace University in 1969. He founded the Masters program in Cosmetic Sciences at Fairleigh Dickinson University and taught the Chemistry of Skin Care and the Chemistry of Hair Care Ingredients from 1982-2000. He teaches continuing education courses for the Society of Cosmetic Chemists as well as a wide of other  professional organizations.  Mr. Stienberg is the author of Preservative for Cosmetics (Allured Books, 2006).

Since 1995 David has written a bimonthly column for Cosmetic & Toiletries magazine on cosmetic regulations and in 2006 David was the founder of the Cosmetic Preservative Council. (Executive Director).  David is the principal of Steinberg & Associates (http://www.steinbergconsult.com/ ) - a consulting firm specializing in serving the personal products industry.

Scott Sutton, Ph.D.

Senior Director of Microbiology Services, Vectech

Dr. Sutton earned his Masters and PhD in Microbiology from the University of Rochester (NY). With over 20 years of laboratory leadership experience in the microbiology arena of the pharmaceutical and personal products industries, he now consults through Vectech Pharmaceutical Consultants, Inc.  Clients have included startups, generics, established Fortune 500 companies, law firms and investment broker houses. Laboratory management, training, GMP, testing methodologies and microbiology-related project management are areas of special interest.  He has worked with the USP Microbiology Committee of Experts since 1993, serving as vice-chair since 2000.   He operates the Pharmaceutical Microbiology Forum with its monthly newsletter (http://www.microbiologyforum.org) and serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.  Dr. Sutton also operates an information source on the internet – The Microbiology Network (http://www.microbiol.org) that provides services to microbiology related user’s groups.  This service also supports two Email lists, the first devoted to pharmaceutical microbiology (http://www.microbiol.org/pmflist.htm) and the second devoted to pharmaceutical stability (http://www.microbiol.org/psdglist.htm).