Cristina Acevado is the strategic marketing director for Medical Solutions & Engineered Polymers. Prior to joining Lubrizol, she served as the business director for the Medical segment at Ascend Performance Materials, where she led the successful launch and growth of the company’s medical business. She began her career at Ovik Healthcare (formerly Milliken & Company), where she held strategy, product, and innovation leadership roles in both Milliken Healthcare Products and Milliken Chemical. Acevado holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Purdue University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.