Doram Elkayam’s career encompasses more than 20 years of professional experience focusing on leadership and higher management.

As Chief Operations Officer (C.O.O.) at Obelis for over a decade, he has gained in-depth legal and regulatory expertise in EU affairs with a special focus on medical devices and cosmetic products.

Being a strong advocate of education, lecturing at different events and providing educational seminars belong to his daily activities. As part of Obelis’ vision of creating compliance for safer markets, his passion is providing tailored solutions to the needs of brand owners who wish to penetrate the European Market.

General Manager and Technical Director of Inovapotek – a Contract Research Organization providing customized R&D, Testing, Regulatory and Consulting Services to the Personal Care, Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices and Food Supplements Industries – and President of the Portuguese Society of Cosmetic Sciences. Holds a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Technology and has 15 years of experience in cosmetics product development, testing and regulatory affairs.

Based on his experience from the industry and in particular SME manufacturers and importers of Food Supplements, Zoran Gavrić identified a clear need for clarification and additional guidance in specific important areas, risk assessment of food ingredients and finished products, borderline cases between food supplements and pharmaceuticals, scientific claim support and substantiation, etc. As a result, Zoran Gavrić took up the challenge to organize and chair the first International Congress on Food Supplements Safety and Compliance (FSSC-2018) in Vienna in 2018.

Zoran Gavrić is the founder and managing director of The Regulatory Company, a leading EU expert service provider in the field of Consumer Products Safety Assessments and Product Compliance. More specifically, a technical service provider dedicated to the safety/risk assessment of ingredients and consumer products, and their regulatory compliance.

Mr. Gavrić has a background in Bio-Pharmacy and Regulatory Toxicology. As a bio-pharmacist and risk assessor by training, he has consistently built up his expertise and broad experience in regulatory toxicology, health and safety policies and related legislation. He started his career as an employee of the government of The Netherlands working on diverse topics related to the development and implementation of health and safety legislation. He continued his career in the industry sector, working for some of the leading EU FMCG companies as safety and regulatory compliance manager.  Since 2008 he is fully dedicated to applied toxicology, risk assessments and regulatory compliance of consumer products in his current role as the managing director and one of the principal advisors of The Regulatory Company.

Mr. Gavrić is coordinator and lecturer of the Master Lecture Series “Regulation of Drug Safety” at the faculty of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Leiden University and he is one of the teachers at the Safety Course at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Mr. Gavrić is a member of several professional associations: the Dutch Toxicology Society (NVT), the European Society for Toxicology in Vitro (ESTIV), the European Responsible Persons Association (ERPA), and co-organizer of the International Congress on Regulation and Compliance for Cosmetics (CRCC).

Chemical engineer, PhD, MSc. 

Katerina owns a Diploma in Chemical engineering from the National and Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and a Master’s degree focused in Natural Products Chemistry and Pharmacognosy from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She then pursued a research career and holds a Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry, focusing in the discovery of anti-aging natural products from microorganisms from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, while in parallel she has a demonstrated history of working as a visiting researcher in Research Institutes around Europe. After finishing her PhD studies she joined QACS Laboratories team in 2019 in the Services department, Safety Assessment and Efficacy Testing of Cosmetic Products.

Elena Grasselli is professor of Endocrine disrupting chemicals and human health, Cell Culture and Physiology at the University of Genoa, DISTAV. Head of KosmoLab a university of Genoa facility for in vitro cosmetic testing. In the last decade, EG scientific research and pubblication focused on thyroid hormones, lipid metabolism, polyphenols action and endocrine disruptors.

Academic background:
PhD on Materials Science
Degree on Chemistry
Executive Master on Innovation Management

Experience:
Over 15 years on the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry on different areas as Quality Control, Quality Assurance and Formulation Development.
Teacher on two Master Degrees related to Pharmaceutical Sector.
Working on Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices at Facilities of Cosmetic products Unit.

Amanda Isom joined Bloom Regulatory as Regulatory Affairs Associate Director in 2020.  Prior to 2020, Amanda worked for the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Perfumery Association (CTPA), initially in the Scientific and Technical department and later as Compliance Manager.

​Within her role at CTPA, Amanda provided support and advice to members on the European Cosmetics Regulation and related topics and legislative frameworks.  Amanda has liaised closely with the Government on the implementation of a UK regulatory framework for cosmetics post-Brexit.  Having delivered much training to industry during the launch of the EU Cosmetic Products Notification Portal in 2012, Amanda has been providing input to the development of a UK database for notifying products.  In collaboration with the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, Amanda has delivered regional training to Trading Standards Officers on ‘what compliance looks like’ – focussing on labelling, Product Information Files (PIF) and Serious Undesirable Effect reporting and the related causality assessment.

Within her role at Bloom Regulatory, Amanda provides compliance and strategic support for companies looking to develop and market cosmetics and ‘beauty from within’ products in the UK/EU and further afield.

​Amanda has been an active participant in a number of groups at Cosmetics Europe, including the Strategic Core Team Regulatory, PIF, nanomaterials, CMRs and the application of the Cosmetics Regulation.  Additionally, Amanda has participated in UK stakeholder and steering groups including the British Standards Institute technical committee for cosmetics and BRCGS Consumer Products Standard Working Group.

​Amanda achieved a distinction in the Society of Cosmetic Scientists (SCS) Diploma in Cosmetic Science in 2008 and is currently an author and examiner for the course.  From 2017 to 2020 Amanda held the voluntary position of Education Chair/Honorary Education Secretary for the SCS and has co-edited the SCS/Royal Society of Chemistry book on ‘Discovering Cosmetic Science’.

QACS Laboratories
Chemist, MSc.
Manager of Safety and Efficacy Department
Yiannis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Patras, Greece. After studying Forensic Science at Strathclyde University Glasgow, U.K. he joined QACS Laboratories team in 2012.
He served and gained knowledge in the Microbiological and Stability laboratories and then moved to Risk Assessment. He is heading the Services department, Safety Assessment and Efficacy Testing of Cosmetic Products. Key Account manager for a number of clients.
Yiannis is member of the Hellenic Society of Toxicology and the Forensic Science Society, Board Member of the Greek Society of Cosmetic Scientists

Safety and Efficacy Department

CPNP Management, Risk Assessment & Labelling for cosmetic, food products,

Hellenic Society of Cosmetology

King’s College London BSc. Chemistry

Imperial College London MSc. Chemistry

Vaios career in the field of Cosmetics involves a triple combination of R&D formulations experience,  marketing and sales for a number of companies as well as a more than 8 years of dedicated efforts in regulatory compliance & product assessment. He has been trained in QACS Ltd., today working there as a key account for a number of clients, participating in seminars, EU-level meetings and conferences.

BSc Degree in Pharmacy
Master Degree in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology
From 2011. Working on Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices at Market Surveillance of Cosmetic products Unit.

DG GROW/Consumer Industry/Cosmetics
Scientific and Policy Officer

George studied biology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He then pursued a research career and holds a Ph.D.in biochemistry/molecular biology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. After leaving his post-doctorate research work, he joined the Cosmetics team of DG GROW. As a scientific and policy officer George is contributing to a number of files relevant to cosmetics including, but not limited to endocrine disruptors, nanomaterials, preservatives, colorants and UV-filters, as well as fragrances and alternative methods to animal testing. George represents the European Commission in numerous consultations and meetings for cosmetics and supports the Cosmetics team on scientific and technical issues.

Since more than 15 years, Dr Stephane PIRNAY has been working in the field of certification, testing, quality control, and toxicological expertise for the products of goods (cosmetics, chemicals, food, drugs…).

1st studies began in 1999 at Inserm U26, at Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris, regarding omega 3 – nutrition and health impacts regarding intracerebral intake of xenobiotics.
Then, studies were followed in the field of forensics and toxicological expertise in the Toxicological Laboratory of the Scientific Police in Paris (5 years) from 2000 to 2004.
From 2005 to 2006, Dr Stephane PIRNAY was a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, USA, regarding drug abuse issues and clinical trials.
Back to France in 2006, He was appointed assistant Professor at University Paris V in Toxicology. Up today, he gives courses in different universities and private schools in France. His R&D researches are also continuing especially regarding the following topics: stability, impurity, microbiology of cosmetics and chemicals.
In 2008, he was selected in an independent agency for certifications of cosmetics, goods, and chemicals.
In 2010, he created EXPERTOX, his own independent Laboratory of industrial analysis and agency of Toxicology (www.expertox.eu) based in Paris, France up today.
In 2009 he started also a position of external expert for UNITIS for all the working groups of Cosmetics at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium up today.
From 2013 he is appointed expert in Court of Appeal of Paris, France up today
Last year in September 2018 he was elected President of the National association of the court experts in Chemistry (www.cnejc.org) in France.

Consultant Regulatory Affairs for Cosmetics at MDSS GmbH

University degree as Food Chemist/State certified Food Chemist

Joined MDSS in September 2013.

Prof. Dr. Emeritus In Vitro Toxicology and Dermato-Cosmetology (IVTD)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

EDUCATION:

Pharmacist (University of Ghent, 1974)

– Doctor in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1980)

– Master in Applied Toxicology (University of Guilford, UK, 2000)

– European Registered Toxicologist (since 2010).

BIOGRAPHY:

After many years of leading the department of In Vitro Toxicology and Dermato-Cosmetology at the VUB in a successful way, Emeritus professor in Toxicology Vera Rogiers is actually still teaching dermato-cosmetics at the VUB and the University of Ghent. She also gives a limited number of lessons to the University of Namur and the ULB. She yearly organizes international courses on Cosmetics and Risk Assessment. She is the Director of the Innovation Centre-3Rs (IC-3Rs) at the VUB and of the scientific Chair Mireille Aerens, both with focus on replacing experimental animals by novel technologies. At the EU level, she is co-chair of the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS). Her main research activity was many years situated in the development of in vitro models as an alternative to the use of experimental animals. Actual focus is on the differentiation of human skin-derived stem cells to functional hepatic cells and their application for drug discovery and the detection of drug-induced liver injury.  She has been promoter of 33 doctoral theses, is author or co-author of >380 publications in international peer reviewed scientific journals and is editor of several scientific books. She is an often-invited speaker (>350) and participated in the organization of more than 60 international congresses. She has coordinated 2 EU research projects and was partner in several FP6, FP7 EU and Horizon 2020 research projects concerned with in vitro methodology development. Of the obtained scientific results, several patents have been filed. Throughout her carrier she received several international scientific awards for her pioneering role in in vitro Experimental Toxicology, among these laureate of the Francqui Chair at the University of Antwerp.