About me
Richard Pisano Jr is the President of Citrus and Allied Essences Ltd a leading global supplier of processed essential oils and related flavor and fragrance ingredients that has been owned and managed by his family for 91 years. Since 1982, Richard has worked at C&A in a variety of capacities, including Sales Representative, Treasurer, and Executive Vice President.
Richard has served on the Boards and been President of: FEMA, the Flavor Extract Manufacturers Association, Chem-Sources, The Chemical Sources Association, NAFFS –The National Association of Flavors and Food-Ingredient Systems, as well as having served on the boards of the International Fragrance Association of North America and the International Organization of the Flavor Industry, headquartered in Belgium.
Richard has participated in SFC programs for each of the past five decades. His first presentation at an SFC Symposium was in 1986.
In 2018, he was awarded the “Richard Hall Distinguished Service Award” for service to the US Flavor Industry. This marked the first time a father and son have had that honor.
Richard is passionate about flavor ingredients, essential oils and the issues regarding their safety. He is a natural teacher and has helped to create two courses for the Flavor Industry, including one on Flavor Ingredients for the Non-Flavorist and Natural Products Procurement.
Over one thousand Food Science majors in the United States have witnessed his presentation entitled Sharing the Story of The Science and Safety of Flavor Ingredients.
Richard is an accomplished blue-water sailor, a singer, a writer and a photographer.
He serves the Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity as Secretary of the TKE Foundation as well as in the capacity as Chair of the Alumni Board of Advisors for TKE at Bucknell University, his alma mater.