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Aamir Farid has recently taken up the role of Vice President - Americas Region, Downstream Manufacturing. Formerly, Aamir was GM of the Deer Park Refinery. He transferred to Shell Deer Park Refin... [ view bio ]
John graduated from University of Delaware in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in chemical engineering and began working for Mobil Oil, holding a variety of positions in engineering, operat... [ view bio ]
Pierre Sigonney is the Chief Economist of Total, as part of the overall Corporate Strategy of Total. Pierre follows on behalf of Total group, the evolution of economic activity as they relate to ... [ view bio ]
Department Director Lean Six Sigma Program
U.S. Army- Office of Business Transformation
Retired Marine Infantry Officer, 20 years of Command and Leadership experience coupled with multiple global deployments. 13 years Civil Service with U.S. Marine Corps, Secretary of the Navy, an... [ view bio ]
Following an initial assignment in development of surfactant-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes, Joe Powell joined the Chemical Development Department at Shell’s Westhollow Technol... [ view bio ]
As a 6th generation Texan, Congressman Ted Poe learned very early on the meaning of “God and Texas.” Born and raised in Texas, his grandmother instilled in him a love for Texas, faith... [ view bio ]
Currently Head of Shell’s Project Academy, formerly Project Director of the Downstream Mega Project “Houdini” in Singapore. Dick was born in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1959. ... [ view bio ]
ALFRED G. HOLCOMB obtained his B.A. in Finance in 1974 from University of Texas, a J.D. in 1977 from St. Mary's University School of Law and a LL.M. in Taxation in 1978 from New York University. ... [ view bio ]
Russell has been serving the Refining Industry since 1990 when he began his career as a Senior Engineer with Conoco. Today, he oversees Solomon’s consulting services efforts as Vice Preside... [ view bio ]
Adam Schubert is a Commercial Development Manager for Butamax™ Advanced Biofuels, LLC. Butamax is a Joint Venture of BP and DuPont created to commercialize biobutanol. Dr. Schubert is res... [ view bio ]
Carlos Leite has a technical background with an Engineering degree in 1988, continued his education in Sales and Management by earning a degree in Sales and Marketing in 1992 and a Master's degre... [ view bio ]
Hiren Shethna, PhD University of Manchester. Hiren Shethna is a leading contributer of the Process Modeling and Optimization Unit at Saudi Aramco and works with OSPAS (Oil Supply Planning and Sch... [ view bio ]
Dr. Edward little obtained his Ph.D. in earth and atmospheric sciences from the University of Alberta in 2002. At the time he was also serving as the Quaternary Geologist for the Canada–Nun... [ view bio ]
Vern Yu recently joined Liquids Pipelines in the role of Vice President, Head of Business Development, for Enbridge Pipelines Inc. In this role, Vern is accountable for all business development ... [ view bio ]
Goutam Shahani is business development manager at Linde Engineering in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining Linde Engineering, Mr. Shahani was vice president, sales and marketing at Heat Tr... [ view bio ]
Professional Engineer, Fred Hallett, has more than 23 years of oil refining experience, much of which he gained through his employment with North Atlantic. As a long-time employee with North Atl... [ view bio ]
Skip York has almost 20 years of worldwide experience across the energy value chain. He has deep expertise in petroleum market economics specializing in strategy, commercial optimization (includ... [ view bio ]
Graduated in 1985 from Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, México as Agriculture Engineer. 23 years of experience in the manufacturing and plant management for the automobile... [ view bio ]
Carlos graduated from University of Concepcion in Chile in 2003 with a Bachelor of Civil Industrial Engineering. He began his working experience in Uno Computerland Microcare, an Information Tech... [ view bio ]
Pat Swafford is a Solutions Consultant for Spiral Software with deep expertise in crude oil quality, refinery planning and scheduling, and refinery performance monitoring. Mr. Swafford has over 2... [ view bio ]
Dan joined Spiral in 2004 after completing a PhD in catalytic chemistry at the University of Cambridge. After leading the development of Spiral’s Trader-focussed Netback and Blending tools,... [ view bio ]
John Postiglione is the Manager of Energy Programs for Spirax Sarco. He has more than 21 years of experience in Steam and Water. Postiglione’s primary responsibility is to assist clients wi... [ view bio ]
An executive leader in the Innovation and Enterprise Project & Portfolio Management space, Dermot is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, enjoys leading from the front on client engage... [ view bio ]
Alastair Painter is Director, Refining & Petrochemicals, prior to this he was Business Development Leader and a Principal Consultant for DNV’s Energy Solutions business in North America... [ view bio ]
Dr. Partha Maitra heads planning and business development for the petroleum business division at Reliance. He is responsible for both short term and strategic planning. The short term planning ac... [ view bio ]
2010 Speakers Include:
Robert W. Pease became president and CEO of Motiva Enterprises LLC on Nov. 1, 2008, following the retirement of William B. Welte. He had been president of Shell Trading (US) Company, one of t... [ view bio ]
Keith Casey joined BP in September of 2006 to become Plant Manager and Business Unit Leader at the BP Texas City Refinery in Texas City, Texas, the nation’s third largest refinery. He offi... [ view bio ]
Aamir Farid has recently taken up the role of Vice President - Americas Region, Downstream Manufacturing. Formerly, Aamir was GM of the Deer Park Refinery. He transferred to Shell Deer Park Refin... [ view bio ]
Congressman Gene Green was first elected to Congress from the 29th Congressional District of Texas in 1992 after twenty years in the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate. In 1996,... [ view bio ]
David Goldie leads the refining, planning, and business development efforts of Cenovus’s Integrated Oil Division. His responsibilities include new business development and the development o... [ view bio ]
Pierre Sigonney is the Chief Economist of Total, as part of the overall Corporate Strategy of Total. Pierre follows on behalf of Total group, the evolution of economic activity as they relate to... [ view bio ]
Mr. Shoriak is the director of Major Projects for the Refining Group. His current responsibilities include execution of over $6 billion of domestic refining projects to be completed between 2009... [ view bio ]
Dr. Partha Maitra heads planning and business development for the petroleum business division at Reliance. He is responsible for both short term and strategic planning. The short term plannin... [ view bio ]
Jim Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., joined the Research & Advanced Engineering organization at Ford Motor Company in 1999. His primary area of research is biofuels science, which includes study of the... [ view bio ]
He graduated from Universidad Simón Bolívar as a Mechanical Engineer in 1985, and finished a Master program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. He began his career in th... [ view bio ]
Alice Tang is the Regional Manager for Greater China for Chevron Lummus Global, a joint venture between Chevron and Lummus Technologies, that licenses refining technology and markets catalysts wo... [ view bio ]
José Carlos Cosenza is the Executive Manager of the Refining in Petrobras Downstream since June, 2008. He is also currently Member of the Board of Downstream Participações Ltda., ... [ view bio ]
Mr. Paulo Roberto Costa has served as Member of the Executive Board and Downstream Officer of Petroleo Brasileiro SA – Petrobras since May 14, 2004. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering f... [ view bio ]
Bob Greco is Group Director of Downstream and Industry Operations for the American Petroleum Institute (API), a national trade association representing nearly 400 companies involved in all aspect... [ view bio ]
Frank Rusco is a Director in GAO’s Natural Resources and Environment team, working on a broad spectrum of energy and science issues, including electricity restructuring, crude oil and petro... [ view bio ]
Mr. Thompson joined Pcubed in 2009 to lead the oil & gas practice for the Americas. With over 20 years of experience in business performance improvement, Ron works with the majors, NOC’... [ view bio ]
Glenn Giacobbe has an extensive career in the downstream oil and chemicals industry where he held senior level management roles in engineering, operations and business development for Atlantic Ri... [ view bio ]
Regina Mayor is National Oil & Gas Advisory Sector Leader, Houston Business Unit Principal-in-Charge (covers South Texas and Louisiana) at KPMG LLP. Regina has almost 20 years experience d... [ view bio ]
Mr. Larry Vadori provides his experience of over 30 years with Shell Canada in all aspects of manufacturing operations, crude oil supply and the refining business. Mr. Vadori led the Shell Canada... [ view bio ]
Julius Walker is the lead Non-OPEC Supply analyst in the International Energy Agency’s Oil Industry & Markets Division, responsible for oil supply forecasts and co-authoring the benchma... [ view bio ]
Ms Toril Bosoni is the lead oil refining analyst within the Paris-based International Energy Agency, contributing to the benchmark monthly Oil Market Report and the annual Medium Term Oil & G... [ view bio ]
Professor Dale is Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. In 1996 he won the Charles D. Scott Award for contribu... [ view bio ]
Director, Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Mr. Simon is the Director of the Compliance and Innovative Strategies Division of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His role includes manag... [ view bio ]
Alastair Painter is Director, Refining & Petrochemicals, prior to this he was Business Development Leader and a Principal Consultant for DNV’s Energy Solutions business in North America... [ view bio ]
Justin Riemer is the Executive Director of the Industry Development Branch of the Enterprise Division within the Ministry of Alberta Finance and Enterprise. Since 2002, Justin has lead the branc... [ view bio ]
Reinhold Bietzker is a marine engineer by profession and holds a Chief Engineer license for any type and size ship. For a decade he worked in oilfield exploration and production with Schlumberger... [ view bio ]
Paddy Oates joined Pcubed in 1999, currently leads Pcubed’s Portfolio Management Practice in North America and is also a member of Pcubed’s Energy, Oil & Gas consulting team. Padd... [ view bio ]
Stuart Johnson is a manager in the Engineering and Environmental Office of Volkswagen Group of America, where he is a responsible for many environmental issues and regulatory affairs such as ener... [ view bio ]
William Thurmond is the President and founder of Emerging Markets Online, a global energy and biofuels market research and advisory firm started in 1997. Mr. Thurmond is also the author of Algae ... [ view bio ]
Mr. Sims is a proven leader with 30 years experience growing both emerging and established companies, including the successful commercialization of breakthrough technologies within numerous consu... [ view bio ]
Global Refining Industry Manager Hugh W. “Wes” Barrett has been in the valve industry since 1983 and with MOGAS Industries since February 2006. With the company he is responsible for ... [ view bio ]
Pat Swafford is a Solutions Consultant for Spiral Software with deep expertise in crude oil quality, refinery planning and scheduling, and refinery performance monitoring. Mr. Swafford has over 2... [ view bio ]
Eric Fidler currently serves as the Director of Oil & Gas Sales & Marketing for Rockwell Automation. During his 30-year-career in the global exploration and production environment, Fidler... [ view bio ]
Gerhard Abel is Vice President at TÜV SÜD America Inc. with joint responsibility as President of TÜV SÜD Industry Services, Inc. and PetroChem Inspection Services, Inc., both ... [ view bio ]
Michael Saucier, founder and CEO of Transpara, has 25 years experience leading technology innovation in the manufacturing and utilities industries. Prior to Transpara, Saucier served as vice p... [ view bio ]
Hanif Lakhani, P. Eng., is V.P. of Pall Canada’s Fuels and Chemicals group, based in Toronto, Ontario. He has been with Pall for 20 years, and has served in numerous positions including app... [ view bio ]
Chris Ryan comes to Gevo with more than 15 years of strategic leadership, business development, research and product development in bio-based materials. Most recently, Ryan served as chief operat... [ view bio ]
Wolf Koch has managed technology development programs for over three decades on environmental, safety and intellectual properties issues related to petroleum product distribution. He managed petr... [ view bio ]
Michael began his career in the electrical field 23 year ago in the military. During that time he designed and deployed the first wireless network to be used in a combat area. After the military... [ view bio ]
Dr. Michel Houtermans has a MSc. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in safety and risk management (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands). At Factory Mutual Global he held the po... [ view bio ]
Stuart Thomas is Vice President of Technology and Licensing for DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol, based in Itasca, IL. He has extensive experience in applied biotechnology, clean technology deve... [ view bio ]
Jean-Jacques Mosconi, is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, both in Paris. From 1983 to 1988, he was Research Ma... [ view bio ]
Dr. Mat Malladi is a Refining executive with more than 30 years' experience in Refining technology transfer, business development, acquisitions/alliances, and strategic planning. With Reliance In... [ view bio ]
Mr Mourtada joined Pcubed in 2003 and currently heads the energy practice focused on delivering value to customer through program & portfolio management. Walid has worked with major global en... [ view bio ]
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