Ramya Ramaswamy

As Director of Strategic Innovation at MonoSol, Ramya Ramaswamy leads efforts to advance innovation across the company’s existing detergent segment while laying the groundwork for future growth in new applications and markets. She is responsible for driving product innovation, strengthening innovation capabilities, and building a culture of entrepreneurship within the organization.

Since joining MonoSol, Ramya has built the company’s Innovation function from the ground up—establishing a lean, agile team with a focus on speed, creativity, and business impact. Her leadership has helped bring to market a range of new products, including edible water-soluble films, dissolvable wrappers for bath products, and refillable pods for hand soap and shampoo. She has also played a key role in embedding strategic thinking and innovation discipline as core organizational capabilities.

Looking ahead, Ramya is focused on expanding MonoSol’s innovation pipeline by exploring new applications for water-soluble technology, developing new formats for existing markets, and identifying entirely new technology platforms beyond solubility. She is also working to strengthen key innovation enablers within the organization, such as market research, prototyping, and technology scouting.

Prior to joining MonoSol, Ramya spent over 13 years at Eastman Chemical Company, where she held diverse roles in market insights, business process improvement, product and business ownership in the Acetyls stream, and strategic marketing for the Adhesives business.