Kelli Young-Davis

Kelli Young-Davis is a regulatory consultant at Exponent with 15+ years of experience specializing in biocidal products and antimicrobial technologies across the consumer and industrial chemicals market.

She helps clients navigate complex U.S. and global regulatory landscapes spanning Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Canada Pesticide Regulatory Directorate (PRD) and EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)/Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), delivering strategic product registration, compliance and regulatory strategy, and product stewardship.

Ms. Young-Davis has managed two of the chemical industry's most significant regulatory inventory overhauls, spanning implementation of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg Act) amendments to TSCA and REACH substance registrations across the lowest tonnage bands. Her TSCA work includes active and inactive inventory determinations, Premanufacture Notifications (PMNs), and FIFRA notifications spanning multinational specialty chemical manufacturers and emerging market entrants. On the REACH side, Ms. Young-Davis has advised clients on substance registration, dossier preparation, Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) and candidate list management, and substance volume tracking to support registration tier obligations and ongoing compliance planning. Ms. Young-Davis has negotiated consent orders and Significant New Use Rules (SNURs) directly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and has guided organizations through EPA audit readiness by identifying compliance gaps and building corrective action strategies.

Ms. Young-Davis has served clients in construction chemicals (LEED-compliant building materials including gypsum board and architectural coatings), textiles, paper and pulp, adhesives and coatings, and antimicrobial technology licensing and treated article programs across pool liners, water filtration, and ceramics. Her work has addressed registration deficiencies, proactive compliance strategy, green building certification compliance, and LEED material ingredient disclosure requirements across multiple jurisdictions for both large multinational organizations and small portfolio companies. Her experience spans pre-stage gate to commercialization, managing competing jurisdictional requirements where data accepted by one regulatory authority requires modification or supplementation to meet the standards of another, and compressed timelines requiring executive-level cross-functional alignment.

Ms. Young-Davis leverages deep knowledge of masterbatches and treated articles, including how antimicrobial actives are incorporated into substrates and the regulatory landscape governing those processes across FIFRA, BPR, Pesticide Regulatory Directorate (PRD), and Korea Biocidal Products Regulation (K-BPR) frameworks. She navigates the complexity of international regulatory compliance, bridging jurisdictional conflicts and reconciling competing regulatory requirements across markets. Ms. Young-Davis applies a jurisdiction-specific interpretation of Globally Harmonized System (GHS) requirements, recognizing that harmonization in name does not equate to uniformity in practice, and leverages that knowledge to develop forward-thinking product stewardship programs that anticipate regulatory change rather than react to it.

Prior to joining Exponent, Ms. Young-Davis served as Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager at Microban Products Company, where she oversaw antimicrobial registrations globally across the EU, Turkey, and Asia Pacific. She has also held regulatory and product stewardship roles at BASF, where she oversaw REACH implementation, and at Ingevity, where she supported Korea-REACH compliance. Ms. Young-Davis earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology, with a minor in Chemistry, from Eastern Michigan University.