Sergio Barbarino

Sergio Barbarino is an R&D Research Fellow at the Procter & Gamble Brussels Innovation Center. He leads the practice of open innovation, especially on large collaborative research projects. He is also the most Senior Process expert for the Home Care business. Sergio has been the Chair of ALICE in 2016-2019, the EU Innovation Platform for Logistic aimed at realizing the Physical Internet and is currently in its board as Vice Chair. Born in Naples, Italy, Sergio has a Master degree in chemical engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II and an MBA from the Solvay Business School in Brussels. Sergio has created in 2007 the first group of Supply Chain & Logistic R&D within Procter & Gamble, called Supply Network Innovation Center, of which he was the Scientific coordinator for 10 years. Sergio has been the scientific leader of 2 EU FP7 Logistic projects: the C03 consortium aiming at increasing shipper collaboration on Logistics in Europe and Modulushca, aimed at the development of new shareable and reusable logistic standard modules for the last mile delivery.

In the Chemical Engineering Domain, Sergio has represented P&G in the Large Collaborative projects Impulse and F3 on innovative micro processing leading some of the best demonstrators. Sergio has developed the manufacturing Processes of many well-known P&G Brands (e.g. Mr. Clean, Viakal,) and has been the chief designer for P&G of Innovative Liquid Manufacturing systems for developing markets. He is also responsible for several P&G Academic Partnerships and has been Visiting professor - among others - at the Ecole des Mines de Paris, the City University of London, Laval University Quebec, Solvay Brussels School, Georgiatech and Purdue.

Last but not least, Sergio is a certified Sommelier and is co-owner of the www.onlygreatwines.com company that imports many small producers wines in Belgium and runs the lovely Winehouse Osteria (www.wine-house.be) in the center of Brussels.