Cécile Saint-Paul holds a master's degree in food sciences and technologies from Polytech Montpellier Engineering School. She specialized in food innovation and business management with the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. Saint-Paul started at the Diana Pet Food Global Research Center in France, where she studied pet preferences, palatability drivers and pet food manufacturing. For the last 11 years, she has led the North America development and technical services team by managing new product design and industrialization as well as customer technical services. Saint-Paul recently took the lead in the marketing department for North America, where she works to translate market insights and trends into a strategic pipeline of services and products development to better serve pet food industry expectations.