Julie Valentine is the Director of Flow Solutions for Refining at Emerson Automation Solutions in the Emerson Flow Group. She first joined Micro Motion in 1993 and worked as the Refining Industry Marketing Manager for Micro Motion for 14 years, until 2007. She rejoined Emerson in 2015 and is now responsible for all of Emerson’s flow technologies. She has authored numerous technical papers on various applications of flow technology in the refining industry, and is a co-inventor on two U.S. patents for Micro Motion. She is an active member of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM). She received a BS in chemical and petroleum refining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO). Before joining Emerson, she worked for UOP for eight years, primarily in the technical services group, where she was involved in the commissioning, start-up, and troubleshooting of UOP process units around the world.