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Robin Throckmorton

Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR is the President and Executive HR Strategist with Strategic HR, Inc., a human resources management consulting firm located in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Strategic HR, Inc. was a winner in 2008 and 2009 of the Regional Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce Small Business Excellence 10 under 10 Award.  Robin has been a generalist and consultant for over 18 years with healthcare, manufacturing, service, and non-profit organizations creating solutions to help them recruit and retain the best and the brightest employees.

Robin is the co-author of 'Bridging the...Read more

Ron Alsop

Ron Alsop, author of the book 'The Trophy Kids Grow Up: How the Millennial Generation Is Shaking Up the Workplace', is a freelance writer and editor, as well as a public speaker and consultant on the millennial generation, corporate reputation, business ethics, social and environmental responsibility, business education trends, and career development. His other books include 'The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation: Creating, Protecting, and Repairing Your Most Valuable Asset' and 'The Wall Street Journal Guide to the Top Business Schools'.

A longtime writer and...Read more

Caroline Reynolds

Caroline Reynolds, P.E. is a chemist and chemical engineer who has managed waste-related projects for over 25 years. Many of her past projects were investigations of potential soil and groundwater contamination. Investigation results often are used to determine the preferred remediation method and the extent and cost of cleanup. Ms. Reynolds found that it was important to quickly and clearly explain investigation findings to client management and attorneys. Understanding the findings and their implications are important motivators for the client to obtain sufficient funding...Read more

Dr. David Wood

David Wood received a double major in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology from Caltech in 1990. He then worked one year at Kelco in process development for commodity-scale mucopolysaccharides, and two years at Amgen in the Neupogen® manufacturing process. He then returned to graduate school and completed his PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2001. He then spent seven years on the faculty at Princeton University before joining the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Ohio State University in 2009. His current work includes protein engineering for...Read more

Dr. Ajoy Banerjee

Dr. Banerjee presently is an Executive Consultant to the nuclear power industry and is leading the effort to develop the project execution plan to negotiate the engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract and to prepare the loan application to the US DOE for a new $10 billion plus, new nuclear power plant. Until July 2008, Dr. Banerjee was the Chief Operating Officer of Delta-T, a company building over 30 ethanol plants. He is a highly qualified executive and has over 25 years domestic and international experience in project development, financing, engineering, construction...Read more

Joseph B. Powell

Joe Powell (Joseph B. Powell, PhD) is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and served as Shell’s first Chief Scientist – Chemical Engineering from 2006 until retiring at the end of 2020, culminating a 36-year industry career. He joined the Process Development Department at Shell Technology Center Houston in 1988, and over his career has led R&D programs in new chemical processes, biofuels, and enhanced oil recovery, in addition to a Hunters innovation group, and served as technology advisor for the energy transition to a net-zero carbon economy.  Dr....Read more

Henry T. Kohlbrand

Henry T. Kohlbrand is a chemical industry management and technology consultant. He recently retired from a 36-year career at The Dow Chemical Company where he worked in a variety of senior leadership roles in R&D; Manufacturing; Environmental, Health & Safety; and Sustainability. He has led global teams in areas ranging from process technology to new business development to intellectual asset management. Hank served on the Board of Directors of AIChE and was the 2010 President of AIChE. He has also provided leadership to a number of non-profit boards and organizations....Read more

Robert Langer

Robert S. Langer is the David H. Koch Institute Professor (being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member). Dr. Langer has written over 1,600 articles. He also has approximately 1500 issued and pending patents worldwide. Dr. Langer’s patents have been licensed or sublicensed to over 400 pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies. He is the most cited engineer in history.  

He served as a member of the United States Food and Drug Administration’s SCIENCE Board, the FDA’s highest advisory board, from 1995 --...Read more

Darlene Schuster

Darlene S. Schuster, Ph.D. is an established chemical engineer, with over 20 years of experience leading a technology and development professional consulting company, along with vast work experience in the chemical and bio-pharmaceutical fields, who now serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). She previously served as Chief of Technical Operations, Membership & Business Development at AIChE.

Prior to her appointment as CTO at AIChE, Dr. Schuster was the Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Senior Director of the...Read more

David Eckhardt

Dave is the Chemical Engineering Consultant for Irwin Engineers in Natick, MA. During his 45+ year career Dave has managed multiple projects in Process Development, Process Design, and Plant Operations for Monsanto, CH2M Hill and DuPont. His work has developed trade secrets for herbicides, Bovine Somatatropin, pharmaceuticals, and minerals. David holds PE licenses in Illinois, Massachusetts, and Missouri.Read more

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