Juan Grosso
About Juan Grosso
Juan Grosso is the Director of Global Digital Manufacturing for Baby Care at Procter & Gamble, with extensive experience in engineering and research across various fields.
Current Role at Procter & Gamble
Juan Grosso currently serves as the Director of Global Digital Manufacturing for Baby Care at Procter & Gamble. He has been in this role since 2021 and is based in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His duties include overseeing the digital transformation and manufacturing processes for the Baby Care division, ensuring the integration of advanced digital technologies to optimize production efficiency.
Previous Experience at Procter & Gamble
Before becoming the Director of Global Digital Manufacturing, Baby Care, Juan held several positions at Procter & Gamble. He was the Senior Manager of Global BabyCare Digital Manufacturing from 2020 to 2021, where he focused on digital manufacturing strategies. Prior to that, he worked as the Global Start-Up Senior Manager for the Baby Care Mainline Platform from 2019 to 2020, and as the Digital and Quality Upstream Global Manufacturing Leader from 2018 to 2020. His initial role at P&G was in Global Digital Integration from 2015 to 2018, indicating a strong, progressive career focused on digital manufacturing and process improvement.
Academic Background
Juan Grosso has an extensive academic background in engineering and automatic control. He earned a Ph.D. in Automatic Control, Robotics, and Computer Vision from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya between 2012 and 2015. He also holds a Master's degree in Automatic Control and Robotics from the same institution, achieved in 2012. Additionally, Juan attended several specialized PhD schools at IMT - Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca and European Embedded Control Institute, focusing on control of networked and large-scale systems, and decentralized and distributed control in 2013 and 2012 respectively.
Research and Engineering Experience
Juan has a rich research and engineering background, having worked in various capacities. He served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart in 2014 and as a Researcher at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial from 2010 to 2015. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Research & Development Engineer and Energy Consultant as a freelancer, and as a Design and Development Engineer at Industrias Acuña. His initial roles were as a Research Engineer and Programmer with Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga - COLCIENCIAS, focusing on control and mechatronics research.
Specialization and Expertise
Juan Grosso specializes in integrating scientific and technological knowledge across various engineering fields including Chemical, Mechanical, Electronics, Systems Theory, and Automatic Control. He focuses on industrial process data analytics, prognostics for fault detection and isolation, and designing economic-robust predictive controllers for constrained systems. His research experience spans plant-wide advanced control, robotics, biological systems modeling, and energy systems optimization, complemented by a strong entrepreneurial attitude towards innovation.