Claire L. Cagnolatti is Vice President of Chemicals Studies for Solomon Associates, a world-renowned performance improvement consulting firm located in Dallas. Solomon provides benchmarking services and performance improvement programs to companies in over 70 countries in the refining, chemical, power generation, and pipeline/terminal industries. Ms. Cagnolatti has been with Solomon for over 23 years, after 14 years of hands-on manufacturing experience and four years working in economic optimization at plant and corporate levels in the chemical and petrochemical manufacturing industries. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Administration, both from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.