Sophia Lipantetzoglou

•Built a competitive edge for our brands (Activia, Danonino, Actimel) through health marketing •Raise awareness, credibility, recommendation of our functional brands and their benefits to the scientific community and to consumer •Design and lead an advisory board of KOLs •Prepare and deploy a full health marketing plan for all brands •Be the intermediate key link between medical society and marketing •Approve of all material according to regulations on pack, TV copy, leaflets, prints etc Quality

•Management of 18 food technologists •Evaluation of microbiological results, recommendation and deployment of corrective actions •R&D of new products •In HACCP team of the company and and internal auditor •Personnel trainings on GMP •Audits of distribution centers+develop Manual “Good Distribution and Storage Practice” •Preparation of team and QC procedures to meet American Standard PMO based on which FAGE was audited by FDA and managed to get IMS list and continue export to US

•Establishment of the microbiological lab of the company •Microbiological analysis of all types of food and raw materials •Microbiological analysis of cosmetics and drugs, “challenge tests” •Hygiene controls of food manufactory and retail chains Counseling on corrective actions following regulations and the international guidelines •Under my supervision the lab successfully passed audits of multinational companies and was accredited with ISO 45001 for food analyses and GLP for cosmetics analyses

Dissertation: Microbiology of low-fat milk

Dissertation: Incidence of Penicillium expansum in long stored apples