Greg Vas Nunes

Greg Vas Nunes joined Akoya in 2018 as a Managing Director of Specialty Chemicals.
Most recently Greg was Senior Vice President for Univar and an Officer of the Company.
Univar a $9B public company is the largest chemical distributor in North America.
Greg was responsible for the company’s Digital and Customer Experience investments and prior to this role served as President of the USA’s Specialty Products and Services businesses.
He held P&L responsibility for over $2B of specialty products in the USA from premier global chemical producers along with $700MM of value add service businesses including environmental services.
Before joining Univar, Greg served as President for the European region of a leading global industrial fiber producer, Performance Fibers based in Luxembourg.
Greg held P&L accountability for over 200MM€ in revenue and three manufacturing locations in Germany and France.
Before this he served as President for subsidiaries of two major Korean multinationals, Hyosung and LG in Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas serving the apparel and building materials industries respectively.
Greg launched his career with DuPont where he spent over 20 years in management and senior leadership roles with P&L accountability across numerous industrial and ingredient branded businesses.
Greg also held key leadership roles with the Corian® surfacing business in Europe and the USA, Engineering Plastics, Lucite® acrylics and Kalrez® perfluoroelastomers in the USA. Greg is the Chairman of Trinity Technology Group, an Akoya portfolio company.
Greg is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a member of their Phalanx Honor Society.
He was an active member of operating boards with joint venture companies in the USA, Japan, Italy and Mexico along with advisory board roles in European and USA industry associations.