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Michael P. Broadribb, C.Eng.

Michael P. Broadribb, C.Eng., is a senior principal consultant with BakerRisk’s Process Safety Group (Email: mbroadribb@bakerrisk.com). He began work at BakerRisk in Dec. 2009 after more than 40 years of service with bp. He has worked in onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production facilities, oil refineries, and marine terminals in Europe and North America. He holds a BSc in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Wales. Broadribb is a chartered engineer in the U.K. and fellow of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).Read more

Michael Knight

Michael Knight has been with BP for 29 years and currently acts as the consultant on improvements around the refining supply chain, from crude acquisition through to manufacturing and operations. His career at BP includes building teams to deliver process modeling, simulation tools for plant engineers, LP and scheduling models, advanced control, and on-line optimization applications. Michael's current focus is to support work to improve business processes and tools for scheduling.Read more

Dr. Nathan Lewis

Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Lewis has been an Alfred P....Read more

Ignacio E. Grossmann

Ignacio E. Grossmann is the Rudolph R. and Florence Dean University Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and former department head at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.S. degree at the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, in 1974, and his M.S. and Ph.D. at Imperial  College in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He is a member and former director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making, an industrial consortium that involves 20 petroleum, chemical, engineering, and software companies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and...Read more

Dr. Michael M. Domach

Prof. Mike Domach received his B.S in Chemical Engineering with Environmental Engineering and Chemistry minors from the University of Massachusetts and he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University. He was the inaugural Dow Chair Recipient, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. He has served as a Senior Visiting Scientist, Bioinformatics, The Jackson Lab, Bar Harbor, ME and as a Co-Director of the NIH Training Program in Biotechnology. He is on the Editorial Board of the J. Biotechnology and was a Co-founder Automated Cell Technologies Inc, a NIST-ATP funded...Read more

Professor John Hooker

John Hooker is Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, and Professor of Operations Research, at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.  He is also part-time Visiting Professor at London School of Economics, 2009-2011.  His research and teaching interests include operations research, international business ethics, and cross-cultural issues.  He has published over 130 articles, five books, and five edited volumes in these fields, including his book Working Across Cultures.  He has lived and worked in Australia, China, Denmark,...Read more

Dennis C. Hendershot

Dennis C. Hendershot is a chemical engineer with 40 years of experience in process research and development, plant design and startup, and process safety. From 1970 until his retirement in 2005 as a Senior Technical Fellow, he worked at Rohm and Haas Company. He then joined Chilworth Technology Inc. as a Principal Process Safety Specialist (retiring again in 2009), and the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers as a Staff Consultant. With CCPS, he has worked with the Inherently Safer Design Subcommittee, the Risk Tolerance Criteria...Read more

Howard Blum

Howard Blum is a highly competent business professional, with over 20 years of international business experience in the chemical and polymer industries, as well as the biorenewable materials sector. He has developed successful entry strategies for new products and technology, performed competitive assessments and market research analysis, examined displacement of traditional products by new technology, assessed M&A candidates and assisted in the implementation of new business approaches and strategies for US and international clients in Asia & Europe.

Mr. Blum is a graduate...Read more

Vahid Ebadat, Ph.D.

Dr Vahid Ebadat Ph.D., M.Inst.P, MIEE, C.Eng., C.Phys. is the CEO of Chilworth Technology, Inc. He has worked extensively as a process and operational hazards consultant for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries. Dr. Ebadat is a regular speaker at training courses on gas and vapor flammability, dust explosions, and controlling electrostatic hazards. He is a member of NFPA 77 Technical Committee on Static Electricity, NFPA 654 Standard for the Prevention of Fire and Dust Explosions from the Manufacturing, Processing, and Handling of Combustible Particular Solids and ASTM E27...Read more

Rodney Dotson

Rodney Dotson currently serves as Director of the Institute for High Performance Learning (HPL) at the City College of New York. HPL is a science education and leadership development program developed by Mr. Dotson for talented K-12 youth interested to pursue careers in mathematics and science related fields.Read more

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