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James Zallie is executive vice president, global specialties and president, Americas. Previously, Mr. Zalled served as executive vice president, global specialties and president, North America and EMEA. Before joining Ingredion, he was president and chief executive officer of National Starch, which was acquired by Ingredion in 2010. During his 27 year tenure at National Starch, he held various positions of increasing responsibility, first in technical, then marketing and then international business management. He holds master’s degrees in food science and business administration from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science degree in food science from Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Zallie is a member of the board of directors for Innophos, a leading producer of specialty grade phosphate products for the food, pharmaceutical and industrial market segments.

As CEO, Andres Lopez’s focus is to enhance the performance of the business to benefit customers, employees, investors and other key stakeholders. Lopez has established himself as a strong and successful leader, most recently serving as chief operating officer during 2015 and playing a key leading role on the recent acquisition of Vitro’s Food and Beverage business in Mexico, the U.S. and Bolivia. He has also served as president of O-I Americas, with a focus on strengthening O-I’s North America operations. Prior to that role, he served as president of O-I’s South America operations, where he led the region through significant organic and acquisition-based growth, adding new capabilities in Brazil and Argentina. Lopez has held various other leadership positions at O-I, including global vice president of manufacturing and engineering; vice president of manufacturing, North America; and country general manager for O-I Peru.

Peter Martin is a Chief Executive Officer at Cosmetic Essence and Board Member at Cosmetic Essence. He has worked as President/CEO at CAPTIVE PLASTICS, INC.. Peter studied at Colgate University.

Reporting to the CEO, member of three-person executive team leading IDEX (IEX, NYSE), one of the top two performing companies in the Industrial Conglomerate sector. Direct report to CEO of Rexnord. Leadership/Culture - Considered potential successor to the IDEX CEO. Mentored by IDEX Board member as part of formalized CEO leadership readiness process. Create high energy/fast paced cultures where accountability and risk are rewarded. Recruit “A” players and mentor “B” level performers. Earnings Performance - IDEX earnings and share price performance equaled Danaher (DHR, NYSE) and outperformed all others in the sector such as Dover (DOV, NYSE) and United Technologies (UTX, NYSE) for six consecutive years. IDEX executive team created over $5B (88%) in market capitalization value from 2012 to 2016  Led the largest most profitable group of IDEX ($650M) comprised of complex multi-division businesses. Led $820M business unit of Rexnord. Drove double-digit EBITDA growth over a two-year period at Rexnord. Manufacturing - LEAN OPS - Drive results through implementation of operating business systems based on Toyota Production Systems and IDEX Business Systems. Led Groups manufacturing up to 100,000 SKUs in five domestic and eight global plants. Strategy - In the last three roles repositioned organization from selling 80-year-old legacy products to selling solutions. Redefined value proposition. Shifted the strategy to focus on value creation for building owners, contractors. With IDEX developed unique water pumping system using gas burn off of oil rigs. Organic Growth - In every role for the past six years took market share and grew in shrinking markets. Accelerated margin performance through innovation, new product introduction and refocusing sales strategies. In several segments locked out the competition for two to five years. Online Marketing - automated the specification for construction project resulting in eCommerce sales growth of $20M (73% CAGR)