Below are some general guidelines for presenters. Oral and poster presentations must offer technical information of benefit & interest to attendees. Marketing / commercial presentations are not appropriate. Make sure you follow the deadlines and direction given by your session chair. For oral presentations make sure your power point slides are of a high and visible to the audience. A frequent mistake is to use a font that is too small. Practice your talk and make sure it fits within the allocated time and you leave a few minutes for questions. Poster presenters must make sure their...
Andy Batachari is Vice President of Technip USA, Inc. and currently managing the business development and sales in Asia Pacific Region. He has over 35 years of experience in engineering, project management and business developments covering the oil & gas upstream, downstream and petrochem segments. Having lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia, Andy has extensive international experience. Andy began his career as a process engineer with Stone & Webster and progressed through the ranks of Project Manager, Project Director and Regional Business Development Vice President. Andy...Read more
After graduating as a Chemical Engineering, he received a PhD degree from the Technical University of Munich. His first steps in the professional career were taken in the process engineering department of Linde Engineering. After several years of engineering Petrochemical plants, project management was the next challenge to accept. From there he filled several management positions within the Petrochemical product-line, as head of project execution and head of conceptual design. His present designation is Senior Vice President, responsible for Technology & Operations of Petrochemical...Read more
Keith B. Ackley is a Vice President of Project Management of KBR’s Engineering and Construction Business Segment. As Chemicals PSL leader he is responsible for the acquisition and execution of projects in KBR’s Petro-Chemicals project portfolio globally.Read more
Denis Menegaz is a Vice President of Project Management and Process Technology. He has more than 40 years experience and has held numerous Project and Engineering management roles for various petrochemical facilities including numerous world class petrochemical complexes. His experience includes management of all disciplines on projects; procurement, contracts, process piping, mechanical, electrical, control systems, civil/structural and information management.Read more
Dane A. Osborne - VP of Operations for CB&I Houston. Over 30 years of Petrochemical / Oil and Gas experience on Domestic and International projects including both LS and Reimbursable type projects. Dane has held leadership roles at several of the major E&C firms, all based in Houston, Texas and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering, with business leadership training at Rice University and the IMD Institute in Lucerne Switzerland....Read more
R. E. (Ron) Corn is senior vice president of Projects & Supply Chain for Chevron Phillips Chemical.
Previously, he served as senior vice president of Specialties, Aromatics and Styrenics, and vice president, Corporate Planning & Development. Prior to that, he served as vice president, Olefins & NGL, and before that he was general manager, Asia, where he was responsible for all Chevron Phillips Chemical activities in the region including marketing, manufacturing and joint ventures.Read more
