With over four decades of leadership in the specialty chemicals and consumer products industries, William Auriemma brings a proven track record of strategic growth, operational excellence, and global market development to his role as CEO of Presperse Corporation. William has dedicated his career to building high-performance organizations, guiding teams through innovation and transformation while strengthening partnerships across international markets. 

Bill currently serves as Chairman of Diversified CPC International, a Sumitomo Group company and sister company to Presperse, where he previously held the role of President & CEO for 24 years. Under his leadership, Diversified CPC achieved record growth, advanced sustainability initiatives, and expanded operations through major capital investments, including the construction of a world-class production and distribution facility in Beaumont, Texas. His career is distinguished by an ability to align strategic vision with execution, delivering long-term value for customers, employees, and stakeholders alike. 

Widely respected across the industry, Bill has served as Chairman of the Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA), Chairman of the Consumer Aerosol Products Council, and President of the National Aerosol Association. His contributions have been recognized with the prestigious Charles E. Allderdice Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring his lasting impact on the household and commercial products industry. Beyond business, Bill has demonstrated a strong commitment to education and community service, including his role as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at St. Norbert College. 

As a leader, he combines vision and pragmatism, ensuring that growth is achieved with integrity, innovation, and a deep respect for people and planet. 

Jennifer Zientek, President and Chief Operating Officer of Presperse Corporation, brings extensive leadership experience across the beauty, personal care, and specialty ingredients industries. Her career spans commercial leadership, business strategy, innovation, customer development and cross-functional management. 

Prior to returning to Presperse, Jennifer served as Market Director, Consumer Care – North America at Syensqo, where she was responsible for the commercial strategy and performance of the North American Consumer Care business. Her scope included portfolio and asset management, sales and business development strategy, innovation delivery, distribution strategy, and cross-functional execution across manufacturing, R&D, regulatory, quality and customer service. 

Jennifer previously served as Vice President, Global Account Management, Strategy & Design at Presperse, where she was responsible for the strategy and development of global key accounts. She helped shape global account strategy across the broader Sumitomo cosmetic network, develop new business and innovation opportunities and strengthen strategic customer partnerships.  

Earlier in her career, Jennifer held senior commercial roles at Firmenich, IFF and Solvay, building extensive experience managing major global beauty and consumer brands and leading strategic customer, innovation and market-development initiatives. 

Throughout her career, Jennifer has combined a deep understanding of customers and market trends with a highly collaborative approach to business leadership, bringing together commercial, technical and operational teams to translate market opportunities into sustainable growth. 

Mehul Shah, Chief Financial Officer, oversees Finance, Accounting, and Information Technology functions. Mehul brings 20+ years of cross-functional experience across various industries and which helps him drive economic value for Presperse.

While being a career financial leader, Mehul prides himself as being a solid business executive first. Mehul’s strengths include the development of new business processes to create efficiencies within the cross functional framework including Sales, Operations, Marketing and R&D. This collaboration provides him with a unique perspective and places him at epicenter of strategic decision making. Business partnering, driving cost reductions, and improving profitability is Mr. Shah’s passion.

Mehul believes in delegation through trust philosophy. This enables employees to move up the value chain, taking on more challenging and meaningful tasks. Growth of his staff is important to Mehul in his leadership role at Presperse.

Mehul holds an MBA in Finance, master’s in industrial engineering and a bachelor’s in production engineering.

Mehul enjoys kayaking in his spare time and enjoys reading about macroeconomics and monetary policy.

Carla has been passionate about the cosmetic and personal care industry since she was a child, when she would wake up early for school to custom blend her own makeup to find the perfect product. Since then, she has never stopped pursuing excellence and innovation in beauty and personal care product development. From working in the lab to account management of prestige beauty brands, Carla is driven by the challenge of bringing new products to life.

Carla puts her customers first and works with them to achieve growth and innovation. She collaborates with her customers by listening to their feedback, working with them to achieve their goals, and building trust and partnership with them. She has demonstrated her leadership and performance by guiding cross functional global teams to record results. She values her long-term relationships with her customers.

Carla has a deep understanding of the prestige beauty market and knows how to meet the diverse and complex needs of multinational corporations. Carla is committed to serving her customers around the world in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Carla holds a BS in Chemistry and a Masters in Cosmetic Science.

She enjoys keeping herself up to date on the latest brand market developments and consumer preferences by engaging with social media and travelling to new destinations to discover new products from around the world.

Lori Katz is Vice President, Supply Chain/Operations. In this role, she oversees Presperse Supply Chain operations, including planning, quality assurance, logistics and customer service. Lori brings 20+ years of experience in the personal care industry with the last 15 years in Supply Chain. Lori motivates and leads our Supply Chain and Operations teams, while collaborating with business partners, suppliers, customers, and third parties to drive value through improvements in productivity and service.

Lori has received her degree in History and Sociology from Thomas Edison State College. While not working, Mrs. Katz enjoy spending time with her family, friends, and her dogs. She loves to read and garden.

Stephen Doherty, Director of Information Technology, has more than 20 years of experience in the Information Technology space with 15+ of those in the personal care industry. In his role, Stephen manages the development of business applications, creating and improving business processes and procedures, customizing ERP and CRM systems, integrating systems, and key IT projects, and maintaining and installing internal systems and equipment.

Stephen holds a degree in Computer Science/Information Technology and is a top Business Central 365/NAV developer and is proficient in many other programming languages. He is also skilled in virtualization and cloud computing.

In his spare time, Stephen enjoys playing ice hockey, watching football, spending time with his family, and figuring out how things work.

Renash Gopie has been an integral part of the Presperse organization since 2011. As the Director of Europe and core member of our leadership team, Renash leads the company’s international operations, with primary responsibility for our overall business in Europe.

Renash is also responsible for our global distribution partnerships and provides strategic leadership and guidance for our GKAM functions across the broader global Sumitomo organization. In addition, he manages key supplier relationships.

With over 20 years of experience in the cosmetics industry, Renash brings vast experience to Presperse with deep knowledge of the ever-changing industry landscape. Prior to joining Presperse, Renash held management positions at Pro-Tec Ingredia and Chesham Specialty Ingredients.

His working ethos is a trusted partner approach with problem solving expertise. Renash places emphasis on managing lifetime business relationships.

During his spare time he enjoys running, reading, watching his football team Liverpool FC and the Springboks play rugby.