Cory Ansel is the Global Applications Expert, Kitchen Care for North America.  With 20 plus years’ experience at Diversey, he has extensive knowledge in every sector of the business and holds a BSC in Communications.  Cory is based at the Diversey Global Headquarters in Ft. Mill, South Carolina and is a member of the Training & Applications team. Throughout his career, he has worked with customers from around the world, and has helped to provide solutions to the daily cleaning and hygiene challenges faced in our industry. 

“Enabling our team and our customers in attaining the highest results in cleaning and hygiene is my top priority.”

Carine Nkemngong has a PhD in food microbiology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. In 2017, Carine moved to the US under the USCIS diversity lottery program. Prior to relocating, she earned an MS in Crop Protection from the University of Buea-Cameroon and worked as an R&D Officer for the agro-American giant Herakles Farms Cameroon.

Carine joined the Diversey team in January of 2021 as a Sr. Scientist Food Safety Expert. She has primary responsibility to support Diversey and its customers with microbiological and food safety expertise. She was been actively participating in delivering high quality food safety support to Diversey’s customers through onsite visits, sanitation crew coaching and science-based approaches to troubleshooting customer sanitation concerns. Carine has wide experience working with bacterial biofilms and bacterial spores. She is passionate about changing the food safety landscape through science-driven approaches.

Jack Burnett is Technical Consulting Manager serving Diversey’s North American retail, food service and hospitality sectors. Jack is part of a team that focuses on industry engagement and knowledge-based services provided to Diversey’s customers. Areas of expertise include food safety, sanitation product application and environmental microbiology. Responsibilities at Diversey include training materials development and management, fielding questions from both customers and Diversey’s account managers, execution of field tests and validations, supporting Diversey’s brand through industry associations, and a variety of ad hoc projects supporting sales or internal initiatives. Concurrently with his responsibilities at Diversey, Jack is a Ph.D. Candidate at Purdue University and his research, focusing on biofilms in food processing environments, is guided by Diversey’s Customer Advisory Board and funded by the company.

Jack grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. In undergraduate studies Jack initially researched several aspects of pollinator behavior. In his junior year Jack completed an internship with the Institut National de Research Agronomique (INRA) in Montpellier, France where he studied stress response systems in plants. Upon returning stateside Jack continued his research career by applying his newly acquired molecular biology acumen to study protein secretion systems and regulation of extracellular-matrix degrading enzymes. After graduating in 2013, Jack continued this research as a full-time employee. 

Jack developed an interest in the interplay between microbes and the different stages of the farm-to-fork continuum and in 2014 accepted a role as the Production and Orchard Manager of a micro-cidery based in Door County, WI. Here he was responsible for managing the health and development of the orchard based on Washington Island as well as executing and overseeing the production processes including the fermentation, aging, pasteurization and sanitation processes. 

In 2016 Jack became a graduate student at Purdue University in the Department of Food Science where his research focused on Listeria monocytogenes in the retail produce environment. He managed and executed the largest longitudinal environmental swabbing project ever undertaken in grocery stores; the project sampled and processed over 10,000 environmental samples from 30 produce departments in the United States over a six month period. This USDA-funded research led to a second project studying the ability of processes to improve the microbial situation in highly-contaminated environments. Jack partnered with Diversey for the execution of this phase of his research.

Jack received his Masters degree in 2018 and accepted a position with Diversey. His Ph.D. research is robust and ongoing; Jack plans to complete his doctorate in 2023. He is recognized within the retail industry as a leading expert on control of bacteria in their environments. Jack currently lives in Wauwatosa, WI with his 1-year-old son, Miles, and 12-year-old dog, Louie. In what little free time he has, Jack enjoys gardening, reading, and spending time outdoors.

Dr. David Buckley is the Director of Technical Consulting for the Retail, Food Service, and Hospitality sectors within Diversey North America. David’s team is responsible for industry engagement and science-based consulting with customers on a wide range of areas, such as food safety, sanitation, and infection prevention and control programs. This includes customer training, field trials, and management of Diversey-funded external research. David’s team also has internal responsibilities to support product strategy and management, provide internal science-based training, and develop technical reviews.

Before arriving at Diversey in January 2020, David spent most of his childhood in The Netherlands before repatriating to North Carolina in 2007 to attend East Carolina University. It’s there that David earned a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry and commissioned as an Officer in the Army National Guard in 2011.

After this, he worked as a clinical laboratory technician at AvuTox before starting his doctorate in microbiology at Clemson University. David studied the recovery, survival, and inactivation of noroviruses on soft surfaces. During this time, David was also visiting scientist with Procter and Gamble where he worked on evaluating cleaning processes and effectiveness of cleanliness indicators.

After earning his doctorate in 2017, David joined The United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service as a research microbiologist. His focus was the investigation of a novel biobased chlorine dioxide gas packaging system and other intervention technologies to improve produce safety against Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, and hepatitis A virus.

David currently resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Anna, and daughter, Lucy. His hobbies include traveling, golf, hiking, and watching college football; however, most of his free time is still dedicated to the Army National Guard where he is the Unit Commander for a health clinic that provides health service support to Service Members across North Carolina.

17 years working in the professional cleaning industry and more than 10 years responsible for the marketing of floor pads across Europe.

Claire Khosravi, PhD, currently works for Diversey Europe Operations as the European Infection Prevention Application and Technical Team Lead. She provides expert Microbiology consultation and application of EN testing standards across portfolios and external customers. She presents at Infection Prevention events and monitors the scientific literature related to environmental hygiene. She delivers training programs for technical managers and application specialists at a Global level. The trainings cover general microbiology, hygiene, infection control, and disinfectants and their mode of action.

As part of his global role in the IP & Healthcare Centre of Excellence, Victor is responsible for overseeing all innovation projects related to these product categories, as well as driving a number of key global and/or multi-regional innovation projects. He works closely across departments in maintaining global portfolio slots and key global platforms, and specifically with R&D to maintain and develop a healthy global innovation pipeline and technology roadmap, including the initiation of exploratory projects, the scouting of new technologies and M&A evaluation.

Part of his role is also devoted to keeping a close eye of the competitor landscape and gaining customer insights through Voice of Customer and ethnographic studies. Working closely with the regions and Global Strategic Accounts, Victor is able to share best practices and identify gaps in the portfolio and in the value proposition. Together with the Global Application Expert for IP & Healthcare, Victor is the main contact point for marketing and technical expertise in this area, and works with external global leading partners to develop Diversey’s thought leadership agenda.

He brings 15 years of Marketing experience and expertise across product ranges and verticals. For the last 6 years, his focus has been in the Personal Care category, and most lately widen its scope of responsibilities to Infection Prevention and Healthcare. Having spent most of his career in Diversey, Victor holds a good understanding of the cleaning & hygiene industry, its competitive landscape, regulations and trends. Prior to joining Diversey, Victor had worked in Henkel and Olympus.

Victor holds degrees in Economics and in Advertising/PR, as well as Masters in CSR & Sustainability and Strategy & Innovation – the latter from Said Business School - University of Oxford. He is natural from Barcelona (Spain) and lives in Oxford (United Kingdom) since 2012.

Barry Sperling is a global application expert for the Food and Beverage division with over 25 years of industry experience.

After formulating lubricants for the automotive industry, he began focusing on food and beverage applications. He is the author of 2 application patents for use in beverage packaging halls and continues to support the food and beverage industry, primarily in sustainability innovation and remote data monitoring capabilities.

Currently, he focuses on tools and approaches that bring data analytics to bear on resource sustainability issues while retaining customer quality and profitability mandates.

Joe graduated from the University of Guelph in 1987 with an Honors degree in Applied Food Microbiology and Agricultural Science.

He has worked in the food industry over the last 25 years at Peter Macgregor Meats, Ault Foods, Agropur-Natrel, Parmalat and Kraft Foods and has held a variety of positions at the Plant and Corporate levels including quality manager, corporate quality assurance manager/director, plant manager and corporate sanitation at Kraft Foods-Northeast (ON, QC, NY).

Joe is a Registered Microbiologist with the Canadian College of Microbiologists (RMCCM), a Certified HACCP Auditor(CHA) with the American Society of Quality(ASQ), and completed the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 6 with Merit. He has taught technical courses at Seneca College (Toronto) and has presented at the Ontario Food Protection Association (OFPA) and the Food Safety Symposium in Southwest Ontario. Joe currently is on the Board of Directors at the OFPA.

Joe brings 25 years of experience of using his microbiological and sanitation knowledge while working collaboratively with plant sanitarians to provide uncompromising food safety and superior quality.