About

Dr. Nicolas Kokel is a highly accomplished chemist, materials, technologies, and energy professional with over 30 years of global experience in business development. He is a seasoned polymers expert with a strong market and customer focus, broad skills in technical marketing, project management, market intelligence, predictive price and strategic analysis, and a track record of accurately identifying technology trends, elaborating market scenarios, and predicting market penetration of products and technologies. As an entrepreneurial leader with a strong business acumen, Dr. Kokel is pursuing private business interests and is the face of technology at portfolio planning plus, the first open platform for collaborative modeling of the refining and petrochemicals industry. He is also a Research Analysis Director at IHS Markit, EMEA, Acrylates & Oxo Chemicals. Dr. Kokel is a problem solver and a fast learner with a scientific mindset, strong in product innovation and application development, and has invented multiple chemical and polymer products and developed multiple plastic film formulations in various application segments. He is dependable, perseverant, result-oriented, and has the courage to make bold decisions. Dr. Kokel is a resilient person with a strong capacity to work under stress, not yielding to difficult circumstances but keeping motivated towards achieving his goals. Dr. Kokel is a talented educator and a skilled presenter and speaker capable of conveying abstract concepts in a simple and attractive way. He has designed multiple original training sessions, recorded a technical tutorial, organized and led workshops on innovation and technologies, for customers and employees, both practical, classroom, and online sessions. He has been a speaker at multiple international conferences and has a strong track record of publishing and developing websites and blogs providing informative technical content and elaborating successful marketing strategies via social networks and communication channels. Dr. Kokel holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Asymetric Catalytic Reduction Reactions with coordination metal complexes from the Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille (Lille I). He has also completed several professional courses in organizational leadership, supervisory leadership training, finance for non-financial managers, and strategic selling. Additionally, Dr. Kokel holds a Lifeguard National Diploma and a First-Aid National Certificate.