Vice President Continuous
Improvement Crown Americas Division
Crown Cork and Seal

Ken has 30 years of experience as an operations and safety leader in the metals manufacturing and ridged packaging space.

He is currently the Vice President of Continuous Improvement, Americas Division at Crown Cork and Seal USA, Inc. where he is responsible for training, education and implementation of Lean Manufacturing and Safety Leadership programs for the Americas Division of Crown.

Ken started his career with Crown in 2004 as a Plant Manager and has progressed to positions of Regional Manager of Manufacturing and Vice President of Operations for the Closures, Aerosol and Promotional Packaging business.

His academic background includes a B.S.in Business Management from the University of Phoenix, and certificates in General Management from the Foster School of Business, University of Washington and the General Management Program of the Harvard Business School. Ken is a certified SafeStart trainer and a certified practitioner of Human and Operational Performance in his organization.

HSQ Manager
EDP Renewables

Ms. Vivianna Laprea is currently working as a Health & Safety Project Manager at EDP Renewables and is based in Houston, Texas.

Vivianna has over 6 years of experience in Health and Safety roles with focus in incident and data tracking and analysis, starting her career in the Oil & Gas business and now in Renewable Energy. She is responsible for building new dashboards that represent the data coming from the company’s incident tracking system – EnHans.

She also has an important role managing construction projects in the North America portfolio, implementing behavioral safety program (SafeStart) and conducting H&S audits in the Western region (Washington, California & Oregon projects).

CANH EHS Lead LATAM
Cargill

Jessica Aguilar is the current ANH EHS Lead for LATAM (From Mexico to Chile). She has a multi- dimensional expertise; extending to occupational health, environment, health and safety management, sustainable operational solutions and process improvements, key program development and knowledge management, as well as drivers of corporate responsibility and continuous improvement. 

Jessica attained an MD degree from accredited medical schools in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, as well as a Master's degree in Public Health with concentration on Occupational Health and Safety.

She is based in Nicaragua for her current role, overseeing more than 12 countries where Animal Nutrition Health & Technologies (A Cargill enterprise) has operations.