Our leadership team is highly experienced.

Prior to Vibrantz, Wilson joined Prince International Corporation as president and CEO in 2020. He has more than 25 years of executive leadership experience and a track record of success across multiple global businesses in the specialty chemicals space.

Before Prince, Wilson served as president and CEO at Ingevity from 2015 to 2020. Prior to that, he was executive vice president and president of Performance Chemicals at Albemarle Corporation from 2013 to 2015. From 1997 to 2013, Wilson held executive roles with FMC Corporation, including executive vice president and president of the Specialty Chemicals group, corporate vice president and general manager of the Industrial Chemicals group, and division manager for the Lithium division.

Wilson received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Turner has over 20 years of expertise as a finance executive, having held the CFO role in both public and private companies. Turner joined Vibrantz from publicly traded 3D Systems (NYSE: DDD), where he was executive vice president and CFO and led the company’s global finance organization, including the accounting, controllership, financial planning, tax, treasury and investor relations functions.

Prior to 3D Systems, Turner served as CFO at Innovative Chemical Products and prior to that, served as the global business unit CFO at Albemarle for the company’s Bromine and Catalyst business units. Before Albemarle, he held a variety of finance leadership roles at Wastequip, LLC, FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC), and Polypore International.

Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and management information systems from the University of South Carolina.

Prior to Vibrantz, Whitney joined Prince International Corporation in 2014 and served as the company’s senior vice president and general counsel. He has over 25 years of corporate legal experience including serving as vice president, general counsel of GSE Environmental Inc., senior vice president and general counsel of GenCorp Inc., and senior counsel of Tyco International. 

Whitney received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College and a juris doctor from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

Laborde has been a dedicated leader in the HR field for 20 years, well known for keeping people at the core of all she does and empowering her teams to reach their full potential. Prior to Vibrantz, she served as senior vice president of human resources at Prince International Corporation from 2017 to 2022, where she was responsible for overseeing the company’s global HR function. Laborde spent a decade with Alcoa Inc. – where she was the global HR director at the time of her departure – in various HR leadership roles focused on organizational development, talent acquisition and training. She also spent three years at Temple Inland, Inc. early in her career. 

Laborde received both her bachelor’s degree in organizational communication and master’s degree in organizational leadership and ethics from St. Edward’s University.

Prior to Vibrantz, he joined Prince International Corporation in 2018 and served as senior vice president, global supply chain and chief information officer. Rao has over 20 years of experience in the commercial, operations, process improvement and information technology areas. In the past, he has served in executive positions at GE, Genworth Financial and Mubadala Development Company. Most recently, Rao was vice president of digital technology at Baker Hughes. 

Rao received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Anna University, a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Bucknell University, and a master’s degree in software engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Prior to Vibrantz, he served as group vice president, global operations with Ferro Corporation and oversaw the global manufacturing, sourcing and supply chain, and corporate EHS and product stewardship functions. Most recently, Bell served as vice president, Americas and Color Solutions, and prior to his relocation to the U.S., as Ferro’s president for the Asia Pacific region based in Suzhou, China. 

Throughout his career with Ferro, Bell was at the forefront of organic growth initiatives, acquisitions, geographic expansion, innovation as well as large-scale manufacturing and footprint optimization projects. He joined Ferro in 2001 through the dmc2 acquisition and held numerous general, business and commercial management roles with Ferro, Degussa, Cerdec and dmc2 in Germany, Spain, Indonesia and Thailand. 

After his professional education as an industrial manager (Industriekaufmann, IHK, Frankfurt), Bell began his career in 1988 as a management trainee for international assignments with Degussa AG, headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

Vanier has spent his career in senior manufacturing roles and transformed companies’ operations to world-class performance standards in the aerospace, construction, industrial and automotive markets. Prior to Vibrantz, he was president of Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions, vice president and general manager at Norsk-Hydro, and the chief operating officer at Alcoa Forgings and Extrusions.

Vanier has both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in industrial management from Clarkson University.

Before joining Vibrantz, Karnstein spent over 30 years at Sherwin-Williams as an executive leader in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to his departure from the company, he served as senior vice president of corporate strategic initiatives, a role he held since 2022. From 2020 – 2022, Karnstein was president and general manager of the company’s Engineered Polymer Solutions group and their facilities in the Americas, EMEA and India. He was president of EMEA and India from 2019 – 2020, and president and general manager of Industrial Wood Coatings from 2017 – 2019. In 2016, Karnstein became senior vice president of global integration to lead Valspar acquisition integration efforts. He was also senior vice president and president and general manager of the Product Finishes group from 2014 – 2016. Karnstein held other leadership roles in marketing and sales from 1998 – 2014.

He holds a bachelor’s in business from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in business
from John Carroll University.

Misquitta has spent over twenty years in the specialty chemicals industry serving in various capacities with demonstrated success in maximizing profitability and sustaining growth through integration of sales, technical and manufacturing resources. Prior to Vibrantz, he held the position of vice president and chief commercial officer at Ferro Corporation. At Ferro, Misquitta served as vice president, Americas – Asia, Color Solutions, innovation and strategic marketing from 2019 to 2020, and as vice president Asia Pacific from 2015 to 2018. 

Prior to that, Misquitta served as Asia-Pacific commercial director for Energy Storage Materials with BASF China from 2012 to 2015. He also served as vice president of Energy Storage Materials within Novolyte Technologies from 2008 to 2012. Novolyte Technologies was privately held and has over 30 years of experience in delivery of electrolytes to the global battery industry. Misquitta joined Ferro in 1999 as a senior chemist and held positions, including senior research chemist, technical marketing manager, manager of North American sales for the Pharmaceutical and Fine Chemicals business and global business manager for Electrolytes and Phosphines. Prior to joining Ferro, Misquitta worked at High Point Chemical Corporation in North Carolina. 

He has a bachelor of science from the University of Bombay, a doctorate in chemistry from Louisiana State University and a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University.

Newton formerly served as vice president, global commercial for Advanced Materials at Vibrantz before assuming the role of President, Advanced Materials in September 2022. Prior to Vibrantz, Newton spent over 12 years at Ingevity where he was most recently vice president of corporate strategy and renewable energy ventures from 2020 to 2022, serving as a spearhead for technology scouting to drive the company’s growth initiatives. Also at Ingevity, Newton spent four years as vice president, commercial director and business manager for the company’s Performance Materials business unit and – from 2010 to 2017 – held various commercial and strategy leadership positions. 

Newton holds a Master of Business Administration in finance from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business and a Bachelor and Master of Science in civil engineering from Clemson University.