Felipe Soto

General Manager / Ritrama

Felipe Soto is Chilean with more than 30 years experience in pressure sensitive coating and labels printing in Latin America. An industrial engineer of Universidad de Santiago de Chile he studied post-degree at Graduated Business School, Stanford Univ., CA. Soto has held managerial positions for Avery Dennison and Topflight Corporation of York, Pa in Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Brasil and Argentina. Since 2003 Felipe has held the position of Latin American Regional Manager for Ritrama Group and General Manger of the New Plant of Ritrama S.A, Valparaíso, Chile. Ritrama Group is a global supplier of pressure sensitive material with nine coating plants in Italy, Spain, England, USA, China and Chile plus several distribution centers. Right now Ritrama is opening a distribution center in Brasil that will provide complete local stock with slitting, commercial and technical support, and is likely to be in operation by Q-2, 2011.