Meet our Women In Packaging Excellence Finalists

Driving innovation, leadership and meaningful change in packaging

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This month, packaging professionals will come together at the Women in Packaging Excellence Awards to celebrate the achievements of women across the industry who are driving real change and shaping a more innovative and sustainable future.

We’re proud to celebrate and introduce our very own finalists here at Aura Global, who bring passion, expertise, and leadership to our business and the wider packaging community. Their dedication plays a pivotal role in supporting our global clients.

Meet our finalists below…and if you’d like to find out how we can help protect and grow your brand you can get in touch

Caroline Mawby - Packaging Operations Excellence

Caroline is a Senior Project Manager, and excels in packaging operations, leading the global rollout of Aura’s e-halo packaging data platform and driving data harmonisation across multiple regions for major global retailers.

Caroline’s work has helped clients such as Walmart and Aldi gain visibility of their packaging data, achieve sustainability goals, ensure compliance, reduce total cost of goods, and drive continuous improvement by futureproofing their packaging.

Gaynor Denton-Bray - Woman of the Year

Gaynor, is part of our Consultancy team, and has over 27+ years experience leading major packaging projects for household brands and retailers – delivering significant material reductions and financial benefits.

Gaynor has worked with major retailers and brands such as Keurig Dr Pepper and Starbucks. Her work spans commercial strategy to practical application, to help ensure transformational, packaging sustainability outcomes.

Lisa Skinner - Sales and Business Development Leader

Lisa , Account Director, loves everything to do with private brand packaging and champions innovation in all we do across creative, graphics and technology. She has been nominated for driving high-impact growth, identifying new opportunities and efficiencies, then converting them into sustainable success.

She has a vast knowledge, with over 25 years’ experience gained from partnering with global brands and retailers, and delivered measurable success for clients such as Aldi UK and Aldi US, through her strategic vision, relationship building and extensive knowledge.

Rebecca Cusworth - Quality Assurance Excellence

Rebecca, who heads up our Legal team, excels in the ‘legal’ aspects of packaging, from a food and non-food perspective. She has over 15 years’ industry experience and has played a pivotal role in managing regulatory compliance for major retailers and brands across the UK, EU, and US, including; Morrisons, Aldi, Ocado, Whole Foods Market, Tropicana Brands Group, and Musgrave Group.

Rebecca excels in quality assurance – helping clients to drive major process improvements, compliance, and measurable performance gains. She has reduced review times, improved supplier performance, and advanced industry standards.

Gillian Garside-Wight - Woman of the Year & Packaging Leadership

Our award-winning sustainability guru  Gillian Garside-Wight, Director of Consulting, has been our spokesperson and “go-to” for all brand and private brands sustainability initiatives for almost 25 years now.

Championing the sustainability agenda, she has helped to shape the future of packaging for major brands and retailers including Aldi, Twining’s, Amazon, Walmart, and Asda (but to name a few!) – developing strategies, roadmaps, and solutions spanning innovation and value chain optimisation to meet client, consumer, and environmental needs.

If you need any packaging advice, you’ll be in safe hands with our finalists, who together, have over 120 years of packaging experience. Get in touch to find out more about how our team can help to protect and grow your brand.