Mark Porter is a partner at Bain & Company in the London office and leads Bain’s global chemicals practice (Email: mark.porter@bain.com). He joined Bain in 2000 and has worked with many leading chemical companies globally on topics including strategy, portfolio management, and major capital investments. Prior to Bain, he spent 11 years with ICI, working in commodity chemicals and specialty polymers. Porter has an ME from Imperial College London, and an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Jason McLinn is a partner at Bain & Company in the Chicago office (Email: jason.mclinn@bain.com). He is a leader in Bain’s industrial goods and services and customer strategy practices with a focus on the chemicals sector. During nearly 20 years of consulting, he has worked with leading chemical companies on growth strategy, M&A, customer relationships, and asset investments. McLinn has led Bain’s initiatives to evaluate the impact of shale gas on industrial companies. He has a BA in mathematics and economics from Northwestern...Read more
David Burns is a partner at Bain & Company in the Chicago office (Email: david.burns@bain.com). He is a leader in Bain’s industrial goods and services practice with a focus on the firm’s chemicals sector. Since joining Bain in 2006, he has advised a diverse range of clients on their biggest opportunities and challenges, and has focused much of his work on growth strategy, sales acceleration, and pricing. Prior to Bain, he spent three years working at McMaster-Carr, a maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supply company, in...Read more
David Freidl, PE, CCP will present a compilation of lessons learned when gathering intelligent project data and conducting project performance analyses. Parallelly, he will describe fundamentals consistently ignored by project managers or that are controversial to the conventional project controls...Read more
Kristine Chin graduated from The Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York) in 1995 with a master’s degree in chemical engineering. She started out in a traditional chemical engineering job in an R&D laboratory. One year later, she opted for a different career path as an editor for McGraw-Hill’s Chemical Engineering Magazine. There, she honed her skills as a writer and reporter. She wrote a monthly column focusing on information technology, which eventually led to the start-up of her own magazine, ePlant.
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The Flint water crisis created a perfect storm of drinking water issues, exposing 100,000 residents to unsafe drinking water. Join us to revisit what happened and how. In 60 minutes, you’ll...
