10 IFF operations leaders
Senior Vice President Operations, SVP of Operations, Scent and Vice President of Manufacturing are among the current titles held by these ten IFF operations leaders, who also cover texturants, flavors, fragrance ingredients, bioactives and contract manufacturing. A reader can learn how operations leaders work at IFF from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Amy Hartzell
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President Operations · IFF
Amy Hartzell has been Senior Vice President Operations at IFF since January 2025, based in Philadelphia, and the profile lists EHS, quality, capital and operational excellence among the responsibilities of the role. Amy Hartzell was Integrated Operations Director at FMC Corporation from 2020 to 2024 and SVP, Supply Chain at Innophos from 2016 to 2020.
Carl Rose
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Operations - Texturants · IFF
Carl Rose has been Vice President, Operations - Texturants at IFF since January 2026, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Carl Rose was Vice President, Operations - Specialties, Seaweed & Pectin at IFF in 2025, Vice President of Operations - Texturants, Cellulose & Inclusions in 2024 and Vice President of Operations - Core Texturants from 2023 to 2024.
Emilio Pérez Carrillo
LinkedInExperience: VP Manufacturing Fragrances and Ingredients · IFF
Emilio Pérez Carrillo has been VP Manufacturing Fragrances and Ingredients at IFF since October 2016, based in the Greater Valencia Metropolitan Area of Spain, and the row also lists VP Global Fragrance Ingredients Operations at IFF since November 2010. Emilio Pérez Carrillo was VP Sales & Marketing Fragrance Ingredients at IFF from 2006 to 2010.
Fernando Gomes
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Operations · IFF
Fernando Gomes has been Vice President Operations at IFF since January 2025, based in Wilmington, Delaware, and the profile headline places the role in food ingredients. Fernando Gomes was Digital & Operational Excellence Leader at IFF from 2021 to 2025, and the profile describes operations experience across supply chain and manufacturing.
Herve Hartmann
LinkedInExperience: VP Manufacturing Bioactives · IFF
Herve Hartmann has been VP Manufacturing Bioactives at IFF since May 2025, based in Leiden, the Netherlands, and the profile says the role leads operations across the Health & Biosciences bioactives business. Herve Hartmann was Site Director Glycom at dsm-firmenich from 2022 to 2025 and General Manager manufacturing at Veramaris from 2020 to 2022.
Jaime Gomezflores
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Operations, Scent · IFF
Jaime Gomezflores has been SVP of Operations, Scent at IFF since March 2022, based in the Breda-Tilburg Area of the Netherlands. Jaime Gomezflores was VP Operations Flavors, Greater Asia at IFF from 2021 to 2022, Regional Manufacturing Director GA from 2017 to 2021 and Flavors Regional Manufacturing Director LATAM at IFF from 2014 to 2017.
Jozef Ševčík
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Operations · IFF
Jozef Ševčík has been Vice President of Operations at IFF since January 2025, based in Czechia, and the row also lists the same title at IFF since February 2023. Jozef Ševčík was Manufacturing Director, Global at IFF from 2021 to 2023, Country Manager / Plant manager at IFF from 2018 to 2021 and Plant Manager at Kimberly-Clark from 2001 to 2018.
Lorraine Yeager
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Manufacturing · IFF
Lorraine Yeager has been Vice President of Manufacturing at IFF since November 2024, based in Loveland, Ohio. Lorraine Yeager was Vice President of Integrated Operations, Taste at Kerry from 2023 to 2024, Vice President of Operations at MANE from 2018 to 2023 and Director of Flavor Operations at MANE from 2017 to 2018.
Rasmus Steen Mortensen
LinkedInExperience: VP, Contract Manufacturing & Health Operations · IFF
Rasmus Steen Mortensen has been VP, Contract Manufacturing & Health Operations at IFF since August 2026, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rasmus Steen Mortensen was COO at REDUCED from 2024 to 2026, VP, Global Planning and Optimization at Novozymes from 2016 to 2024 and Vice President, Leadership and Organization at Novozymes from 2014 to 2016.
Teun Naalden
LinkedInExperience: Vice President Flavor Manufacturing Greater Asia & EAME · IFF
Teun Naalden has been Vice President Flavor Manufacturing Greater Asia & EAME at IFF since May 2024, based in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Teun Naalden was Europe Operations Director Flavors at IFF from 2020 to 2024, Western Europe Operations Director Flavors from 2018 to 2020 and Operations Manager IFF China Flavors from 2014 to 2018.
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Match the person's scope, such as food ingredients, scent, texturants, flavor manufacturing in a region, fragrance ingredients, bioactives or contract manufacturing, to the decision you face. Check when each current role started to judge how recent the person's view is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you change first when you took on your current operations role, and why?
- 02How do you set quality and safety priorities when you take on operations for a new business or region?
- 03What has your own work taught you about bringing different sites onto one way of working?
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