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February 2012

Partha S. Ghosh

Partha S. Ghosh is a renowned strategist and an innovator of Business and Economic models. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple organizations worldwide to help CEOs/Boards sort out strategic and organizational issues. Earlier Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and is the Founder/Managing Director of the strategy/policy advisory firm Partha S. Ghosh & Associates. 

In the last thirty years as a true global citizen and a professional consultant to prestigious organizations, corporations, and governments, Mr. Ghosh has focused on...Read more

Dr. Ray Cocco

Ray Cocco has been with PSRI for four years where he has the role of President. PSRI is a consortium-based company with 28 member companies in Canada, France, Brazil, Finland, Germany, India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and the United States. 

Before PSRI, Ray spent 17 years with The Dow Chemical Company where he led research and development efforts in numerous particle technology platforms including the production of WoodStalkTM (a particleboard made of straw) for Dow BioProducts, the production of vinyl chloride monomer and RCl oxidation using fluidized beds, the production...Read more

Nat Schatz

Nat Schatz is an Executive Associate with Pathfinder, LLC, with more than 35 years experience in project management, contract administration, project engineering, process engineering, capital program management and process plant design in the chemical and petrochemical industries.  Mr. Schatz has managed numerous domestic and international projects for both operating and engineering/construction companies. Many of these projects utilized offsite modular construction as a construction technique to lower costs and reduce schedules.

Mr. Schatz was involved in the development and...Read more

Merri Hanson

Merri Hanson is the Director of Peninsula Mediation & ADR and manages numerous federal contracts that provide mediators, coaches and trainers for agencies throughout the United States and the Pacific. Merri is a past president of the Virginia Mediation Network, has served on the Supreme Court of Virginia Dispute Resolution Advisory Board and taught communication, conflict management and ADR courses at colleges and universities in Virginia and California.  Merri enjoys finding new ways to teach and learn how to solve problems and make decisions....Read more

Christine Seymour, Ph.D.

Christine Seymour has enjoyed participating in AIChE leadership for more than 25 years. She had the great honor of being the 2018 AIChE President. Christine was the founding Chair of the Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development, and Manufacturing Forum and was the Secretary of the AIChE Board of Directors, on the Society of Biological Engineering (SBEE) Board of Directors, Chair of EBPC, an AIChE Board member, Spring Meeting Program Chair, Process Development Division Chair, and a Process Development Division Formation Committee member. Most of all, Christine has valued the friendships she...Read more

Jack Hipple

A chemical engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, a 30-year veteran of the chemical industry, and a fellow of AIChE, Jack Hipple founded TRIZ and Engineering Training Services in 2001. His industrial experience includes leading several of Dow Chemical’s discovery research efforts and managing its chemical engineering R&D. He has been the Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers instructor for AIChE for 15 years.Read more

Clinton M. Padgett

Clinton M. Padgett is President/CEO of Project Success, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.  Clint has provided consulting, training and account management to clients worldwide in a wide range of industries, such as: manufacturing, food/beverage, electric utility, and technology. His project experience covers many traditional and special applications, including: product development, equipment installation/startup, facility construction/relocations, marketing, software/hardware system implementation and international sporting events for clients such as The Coca Cola Company,...Read more

Dr. Michael Davies

Dr. Michael Davies is CEO of PROTEGO and has been with the company since 2001.  He attended the Technical University of Clausthal and earned his Masters Degree in chemical engineering and his Ph.D. in high temperature thermodynamics. He has more than 10 years experience in providing safety solutions to the process industry.  He is an active member of the API 2000...Read more

Doraiswami Ramkrishna

Doraiswami (Ramki) Ramkrishna, obtained his B.Chem Eng. in 1960 from BUDCT (now ICT). He received his PhD in 1965 from the University of Minnesota and returned to India to join the IIT Kanpur faculty in 1967. In 1974, he returned to the United States and after visiting appointments at Wisconsin and Minnesota, joined Purdue University in 1976 as Professor. In 1994, he was appointed H.C. Peffer Distinguished Professor. Ramkrishna is noted for his research on the application of mathematics to chemical and biochemical reaction engineering, biotechnology, particulate systems, stochastic...Read more

Dr. Richard Siegal

Richard D. Siegel, Ph.D., is an environmental consultant with over 40 years of experience focused on risk management for a wide variety of chemical, petrochemical pharmaceutical, and government clients. He is President of R & B Consulting Services where he specializes in assisting firms in marketing and selling their EHS&S services and products. Dick started this company in 2003 after an extensive career working for environmental services organizations.

Dr. Siegel has directed services and programs focused on business risk and sustainability, built around the fundamental...Read more

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