Global Business Director - Glass Laminating Solutions, Kuraray
Jonathan Cohen is Director of Global Marketing & Development, Trosifol® at Kuraray since July 2015. He manages a global team in charge of designing and implementing the Automotive and Architecture Glazing strategy, branding and communications, strategic planning and developing new business partnerships or acquisitions.
Jonathan joined DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions business in 2010, where he was Regional Business Director of Europe Middle East and Africa until 2012 and then Global Business Director of SentryGlas®. In 2014, Jonathan was co-leading the PMI (Post Merger Integration) of DuPont’s GLS PVB and Vinyls Business with Kuraray PVB and Poval divisions. From 2004 to 2014, Jonathan worked in DuPont in various marketing, sales, product management, business and venture management roles in industries such as packaging, printing, automotive, cosmetics and consumer goods. One of his main achievements is to successfully grow the SentryGlas® business from 2011 to 2017 from a niche emerging business into a major innovation in the glass industry. He is passionate about innovation and has launched more than 30 new products or services through his career. Prior to DuPont, Jonathan worked several years in consulting, strategic planning, and marketing with Unisys in the USA, Keyrus Consulting in France and Groupe Danone in France.
Jonathan holds a MBA in Strategy and Leadership from Yale University (USA) and a Master’s in Management and Marketing from Dauphine University (France) . He is French and is married to his Turkish wife. He has lived and worked in 6 countries, enjoys travelling (he has visited more than 50 countries), loves cinema (he holds a film-making degree from New York Film Academy), and when he has time he snowboards and plays tennis