Carlos Richer

Current

• Owner at Richer Investment S.A. de C.V.

Past

• General Director at Absormex
• Plant Manager at Plasticos Omega

Education

• ADIT
• AD-2 IPADE
• AD-1 IPADE -Continuidad "Buisness Cases"

• IPADE
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Carlos Richer’s Summary

About Carlos Richer

After 21 years with Absormex, where he used to be General Director, Mr. Richer retired in 2005 to start his own company dedicated to provide consulting services to the disposable diaper industry. He is 50 years old and an expert in the field of manufacturing disposable absorbent products, with 24 years of experience. On his Website you will find useful links related to the disposable diaper industry, as well as links to websites of most of the manufacturers in the world.


About Mr. Richer's skills

Mr. Richer is very familiar with diaper requirements, production equipment selection, intellectual property issues and improving diaper performance. He is also an expert at analyzing products and patents to find weak and strong points and make recommendations for changes in the product design or to avoid infringement. Mr. Richer has experience with diaper factory economic feasibility studies and new plant layouts. He has also helped insurance companies and financial institutions with machine appraisals and with damaged warehouses claims. He has helped several independent inventors to write better patents and also helped them find potential clients for those inventions. He speaks fluent Spanish and English, he also has working knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.

This a partial list of Carlos Richer's clients:

J&J (Brazil), Zaimella (Ecuador), Royal Ahold (Netherlands), PGI (USA), Bonlam (México), DNS (Argentina), Tesalca (Spain), Evergreen (Brazil), ASA (Brzail), SCA-Familia (Colombia), Tecnoquímica (Colombia), Al Amal (Oman), Novatis (Morocco), BeLeader (Taiwan), Nobel Hygiene (India), Algodonera Aconcagua (Argentina), Petroquim (Chile), Absormex (México), Lambi (México), Artículos Higiénicos (México), AHP (USA), GLG (USA), BVM (Bulgaria), Beaufort (UAE), Accuval (USA), Dihosfa (Argentina), Nordson (USA), Weyerhaeuser (USA), Botswana Bureau of Standards (Botswana), Accusentry (USA), Linette (Greece), P&G (USA), Mr.Haffar (Syria).

Carlos Richer’s Specialties:

Diaper industry trends, Auditing hygiene factories, Benchmarking. Patents and Intellectual Property, R&D Projects, Diaper Industry Training, Strategic planning.
Helping inventors, Diaper analysis using reverse engineering, Professional Speaker, member of the board of directors in several companies.

Carlos Richer’s Experience

• Owner

  Richer Investment S.A. de C.V.

  (Management Consulting industry)

  January 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Disposable Hygiene Industry Consultant. Baby Diapers, Adult Incontinence, Fem. Care, Diaper factory audits, R&D Projects,
  Diaper Industry Trends, Feasibility and benchmark studies, Patents and licensing, Expert witness, Reverse Engineering, Cost models, Raw Material Selection, Start up training, Diaper Design, Cost Optimization.
  
  We have clients in 24 countries.

• General Director

  Absormex

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  June 1984 — February 2005 (20 years 9 months)

  Used to be General Director of Absormex. We sold more than 75 million dollars of baby diaper every year and had more than 500 workers.

• Plant Manager

  Plasticos Omega

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  June 1981 — January 1984 (2 years 8 months)

  Plastic Blow Molding. I made the HDPE bottles for the Tropicana Orange Juice company in Tijuana, Mexico

Carlos Richer’s Education

• ADIT

  Innovation and Technology 2008 — 2009 (expected)

  This is a joint effort from the IPADE with the Harvard Business School and Standford University. Topics are: Innovations and Technology. Program from June 2008 to December 2008. We visited companies in Silicon Valley, like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Tesla Motors and Virginia Atlantic.

• AD-2 IPADE

  Continuidad- Buisness Cases 2006 — 2008

• AD-1 IPADE -Continuidad "Buisness Cases"

  Continuity, Business Administration based on Harvard Cases, 1992 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Elected Class Official

• IPADE

  AD-1, Business Administration, 1990 — 1991

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Ph.D. Unfinished 1980 — 1982

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Master's Degree, 1978 — 1980

  Graduated with an A- over all average.

• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

  IQA, Chemical Engineer and Administrator, 1974 — 1978

  Graduated as an Honor Student

  Activities and Societies:

  Played the piano at the "Revista Musical" for several years.

• Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

  High School, Prepa, 1972 — 1974

Additional Information

Carlos Richer’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Carlos Richer’s Interests:

I like to play the piano. I am also an inventor looking to license my patents

Carlos Richer’s Groups:

Gerson Lehrman Group- Consulting Management Platform
Front End of Innovation

•    OPEN INNOVATION
•    Bright Ideas & Entrepreneurs
•    Front End of Innovation
•    Consulting Pulse
•    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association
•    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
•    Green & Sustainability Innovators & Innovation Network
•    Clean Energy Community
•    Instituto Panamericano De Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE)
•    Inventors United!
•    Innovator's Club
•    Intellectual Property Professionals
•    The University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Group
•    Intellectual Property Services
•    Medical Device Inventors
•    Disposable Diaper Network

Carlos Richer’s Honors:

Graduated with high honors at the Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Elected class representative at IPADE
Published several patents and technical papers about the hygiene industry.
Guest Speaker at many industry seminars.

Carlos Richer’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch