The WACKER ACADEMY Team of Instructors
Theoretical expertise and practical experience are the cornerstones of the WACKER ACADEMY team. With backgrounds in sales or technology, our experts come to the table with extensive application knowledge. They are also trained instructors and moderators with a sixth sense for current trends and market developments.
Instructors for Textiles and Leather
Sougata Bhattacharya
Sougata Bhattacharya has been associated with WACKER METROARK CHEMICALS Pvt. Ltd. since 2004 and is based at the Amtala Plant near Kolkata. He is currently responsible for leading the technical service team, customer training and the formulation and application development of all market segments in the Silicones division, including Consumer Care, Textiles, Chemical Industry, Elastomers, Construction and Coatings. He has a Master of Science in Chemistry from Calcutta University.
Jasmine Lim
Jasmine holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) degree in Applied Chemistry from the National University of Singapore. Her area of expertise is the coatings industry. She joined WACKER in 2015, and currently heads the technical center for Performance Silicones in Singapore.
Guillermo Lopez
Guillermo is the sales manager for Mexico at the Performance Materials business unit. He has had two periods of employment at WACKER, initially from 1988 to 1992 and then from 2000. He has more than 36 years’ experience of the chemical industry, mainly with epoxy resins, polyurethanes, plastisol and release agents based on silicone fluids. At WACKER, Guillermo has been responsible for elastomers, pyrogenic silica, sealants, silanes and fluids, plastics, textiles, defoamers and industrial coating resins. Earlier, he worked for Hysol de Mexico, a company focused on epoxy resin compounds. He has a Chemical Engineering degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.