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Parm Bansal

Parm Bansal is a chemical engineer with over 15 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry. After graduating from University College London, Parm worked at Lonza Biologics providing support for their fermentation operations. In 1999 he started work at AstraZeneca in Loughborough, supporting the development and scale up of new medicines. He has gained experience of a wide variety of chemical engineering unit operations. Recently, Parm had published an article in The Chemical Engineer on the current issues facing the pharmaceutical industry. In his spare time, Parm is a keen runner,...Read more

Peter Herena

Chemical Engineer with 15 years of experience in controls, software and safety systems. Presently employed by Baker Engineering & Risk Consultants, specialists in blast effects analysis, blast scenario modeling, process safety and reliability engineering. Experience includes 3 years with Kenexis Consulting, an engineered safeguard consulting company, and 10 years at UOP, a petrochemical technology licenser.

Skilled at marketing, communication and customer relations. Trained in conflict resolution with extensive experience in meeting facilitation. Trusted to successfully resolve...Read more

Nathan Barber

Mr. Barber is a man of faith and family who also possesses a diverse set of highly developed skills. A life-long learner, he enjoys leaping up new learning curves and finding creative solutions to challenging problems; an unabashed engineer and businessman, he looks for practical ways to improve both performance and profits. Mr. Barber is also very involved in his church and community, often finding himself in leadership roles wherever he becomes engaged. Nate Barber, P.E.’s Specialties: Leadership Coaching, Budgeting & Financial Forecasting, Business Development, Business...Read more

Tom Smith

Tom Smith is the Managing Director of Focused Solutions Group, http://www.fsgnj.com, a NJ operations consulting firm. FSGNJ drives manufacturing and distribution companies' performance and profitability to higher levels. They primarily target companies with many problems across the spectrum of business. Everything from product design and workflow through strategic planning and everything in between, FSGNJ helps small businesses (< $100M) turn around their operations and position them for higher growth....Read more

Katie Horner

Katie is a member of the Young Professional Advisory Board and is a petroleum engineer working for Chevron in Bakersfield, Ca. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas and received her BS ChE in 2009. In the spring of 2011, Katie will begin attending USC part-time while pursuing a MS Engr in Green Technologies. While at Kansas, she held various positions of leadership for the AIChE student section and was the student chapter president in 2008. After several internships in the pulp and paper industry, Katie decided to test out the water in the upstream oil and gas industry by interning...Read more

Joe Hannon

Joe Hannon is a director and senior adviser at Scale-up Systems Limited, developers of Dynochem software and Scale-up Suite and now part of Mettler Toledo. Joe is a chemical engineer and graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1987. He worked first for BHR Group Limited (FMP) in the UK, carrying out laboratory research & development and scale-up work on behalf of a consortium of companies including Dow Chemicals, ICI and DuPont. He obtained his PhD on CFD simulation and prediction of chemical reactions from Cranfield University (UK) in 1992. In 1994 he started Scale-up...Read more

Teresa Jurgens-Kowal

Teresa Jurgens-Kowal is passionate about innovation. She is a writer, speaker, coach, and trainer. Teresa founded Global NP Solutions in 2009 to help individuals and organizations learn, adopt, transform, and sustain innovation. She enjoys helping people reach their highest levels of success with innovation. Teresa’s consulting clients include a full spectrum of large industry corporations to entrepreneurs seeking to launch new products and to improve innovation system effectiveness. She frequently presents keynotes and breakouts locally and nationally on her favorite...Read more

Aurian Campbell

Aurian graduated with honours from Chemical Engineering in Canada before taking her career in Engineering Consulting to the U.S and then Australia. Starting with her work in dynamic simulation, and more recently process safety and risk consulting, Aurian has worked on projects for some of the world’s largest energy operators. When she’s not working Aurian enjoys getting kids excited about science by volunteering at the Scitech Science Centre in Perth, or taking advantage of the Aussie lifestyle by camping throughout Western Australia. She also authors a blog on her perspectives...Read more

Richard Byrnes

Rich Byrnes is a native New Yorker who attended Manhattan College where he obtained a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering in 1983. After graduation, he was Commissioned as an Officer in the United States Navy Nuclear Submarine Program, and attended the Naval Nuclear Power School achieving a Masters level Education in Nuclear Engineering. Rich served overseas operating out of Holy Loch Scotland on active duty, and was assigned to Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines. After leaving the Navy, he joined the DuPont Company in Wilmington, DE where he filled Management roles in R&D,...Read more

May Shek

May Shek received her B.S. and Honors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2002. She Immediately upon her graduation, she joined Shell in 2002 where she has held various position with increasing responsibilities: Process Technical Support to Olefins (2002-2004), Control Systems Support to Heavy Olefins and Aromatics (2004-2005), Economics and Scheduling Coordinator to Olefins, Heavy Olefins and Aromatics (2005-2007), Refinery Planner/Supply Chain Optimization Planner in Shell Canada (2007-2009). In early 2010, she has recently returned to Houston after her Shell...Read more

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