Dr. Matthias Hobbie

· Developing new food business and addressing hurdles of market growth · Building and Running Alternative Protein Application and Technology CoE · Commercialisation of New Food leading edge technologies and applications

· Developing the color and coating businesses EMENA · Commercialization of sustainable ingredient solutions and technologies for customers in color, flavor, coating and extract applications · Driving New Product Development pipeline · Driving global collaboration across categories and sites

· Commercialization of global brand innovations (Tropicana, Wimm-Bill-Dann, Quaker, Naked Juice, Alvalle, etc.) · Driving transformational Innovation and productivity for sustainable food across categories (Plant based fruit and vegetables products, grains products, dairy replacements, NA beverages, dry foods) towards competitive business advantage · Development of technological innovation strategies for transformational innovation

· Developing and evolving strategic technology platforms for sustainable products within the categories plant based fruit and vegetables (foods and beverages) and dairy replacements · Commercialization of regional Innovation projects for global Juice and Dairy brands (Tropicana, Naked Juice, Wimm-Bill-Dann, etc.)

· Building up Innovation Center of Excellence and its capabilities for transformational Innovation towards sustainable growth for billion $ brands · Delivery of competitive advantages through developed breakthrough technology platform for sustainable Plant based Fruit and Vegetables beverages category

· driving two digits revenue growth through delivery of technology unlocks for business segments and transformation into adjacent categories · Driving competitive advantage through new business development and transformation towards new business opportunities via coating and drying Solutions · Assignments in Brazil, South Corea, Japan and China

· Driving profitable growth via competitive advantage & technology unlocks within business segment coating and drying Solutions · Commercialization of Technology unlocks for business segment (e.g. "no label look" coating machine) · Assignments in Italy and USA

Driving Quality and/or productivity with industrial partners through process optimization, new technologies or process efficiency (Project management and process/new technology development: • Project and innovation manager for liquid (food) industrial process development: o Spraying processes, High Pressure Spay Extraction o Liquid – Liquid Extraction, Supercritical Extraction o Hops extraction, Decaffeination of coffee extract for soluble coffee • Simulation of fluid dynamics of two phase flow (CFD)

Driving Quality and/or productivity with industrial partners through process optimization, new technologies or process efficiency • Project and innovation manager for solids (food) industrial process development o Roasting, quenching and grinding process of coffee beans o High Pressure processing (Extraction, Decaffeination) o Post Pressure Volume Expansions, E.g. Tobacco, Polymers • Simulation of transient 3D heat transfer with latent energies (FEM) o chocolate processing o coffee roasting

Driving quality and productivity through process optimization for a new technology • Development of an innovative, environmental friendly, economic process for extraction of plasticizer from a PVDF-Separator of Lithium-Polymer-Batteries: o Closed Cycles, Solvent free Product o 600% improved performance compared to the alternative conventional process using organic solvents

DMAIC Phases of Six Sigma Project Management - Change Management - Lean Management - Graphical Data Analysis - Statistical Tests and Methods - Design of Experiments

DMAIC phases Six Sigma Project Management - Lean Management - Machine Capability - Process Capability - Quality control Charts - Measurement System Analysis - Design of Experiments

Rheology - Spraying processes - Extraction processes - High pressure processing - Supercritical processing

Fermentation of wildtype and modified strains for production of spezific enzymes

Process engineering - Chemical reaction engineering - Thermal separation technology - Particle technology - Bioengineering