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Jayant Gorawara

Jay Gorawara is the Leader for Adsorbent Applications in Refining and Petrochemicals at UOP LLC. Prior to this Jay was a specialist in R&D’s hydro-processing and reaction engineering groups. Upon graduation from Virginia Tech with a Master’s in Chemical Engineering, Jay started his career with UOP in Experimental Development, following which he served as a Technical Advisor for commercial start-ups of Refining and Petrochemical units world-wide. Jay has been with UOP for 30 years and holds 6 patentsRead more

Jeanenne LaMarsh

Jeanenne LaMarsh works in a consultative capacity with organizations committed to effective organizational change. She is internationally recognized as an expert in helping companies to implement successful change. Jeanenne works with senior management, key change agents, and people who need to change; helping them to understand change and build effective change management strategies.

Jeanenne founded LaMarsh & Associates in 1979 as a firm that addresses the human factors that support successful change. While serving as both a consultant and teacher of the Managed Change™...Read more

Jeffrey O. Mudd

Jeffrey Mudd ia a graduate of Auburn University, and the Capital Project Manager for Cabot Corporation at the Fumed Silica Plant in Tuscola, Illinois. He has been at this site for over 15 years and has been involved in a lot of process design work as well as project work. This plant has a small engineering design team, so they often find themselves reading through various codes and working with outside engineering firms for guidance in our many design quests. One of these quests, evaluating Safety Instrument Systems, brought him to this symposium. This is his first...Read more

Jennifer M. Leberknight

Jennifer is in her 3rd year of the PhD program at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She completed her undergraduate work at University of Wyoming, after which she worked in environmental and process engineering in the Denver area for several years. Jennifer is a licensed PE in the state of South Dakota. She is married with 4 children.Read more

Jerry Forest

Jerry Forest has four decades of experience in manufacturing and process safety, with a mission to save lives, protect the environment, and preserve jobs by preventing process safety incidents. His 20 years of manufacturing experience include isocyanates, hydrazine propellants, and other technologies. He currently serves as a Process Safety Improvement Consultant at Jerry Forest, LLC, a company dedicated to reducing the severity and number of process safety incidents at manufacturing sites. Forest is also an adjunct lecturer in chemical engineering process safety at Louisiana State Univ. (...Read more

Jimmy A. Faria

Jimmy Faria obtained his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the University Antonio Jose de Sucre in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 2008.  His thesis was focused on the design and evaluation of polymeric resins for recovery of heavy metals from aqueous environments. In 2008 he joined the PhD program at the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He is working with Dr. Resasco in the development of different strategies for the upgrading of biofuels in emulsions stabilized by catalytically active nanohybrids particles.Read more

Joel Weldon

Joel Weldon is one of the most highly respected and sought-after speakers in North America, and has been an Idea Consultant and Speech Coach to many of the world's leading organizations and businesses for over three decades.
Joel is the only speaker to have earned all four of the highest honors in the speaking profession -- induction into the Speakers Hall of Fame, the coveted Communication & Leadership Award, The Golden Gavel, "for his profound impact on corporate America" and, in 2006, he was named "Legend of the Speaking Profession." As a former construction worker who...Read more

John Litynski

John currently serves as the Technology Manager for Carbon Sequestration in the Office of Coal Power Research and Development at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. John is responsible for managing a portfolio of applied research and development projects on geologic storage, CO2 utilization, and pre-combustion capture. He has over 15 years of experience working on environmental compliance and technology development for the energy industry and Department of Defense. John is a registered Professional Engineer and Project Management Professional. He received his B.S. in Civil...Read more

John T. Perez

John T. Perez received his BS in chemical engineering from Rice University. He worked as a process engineer for Rohm & Haas for 4.5 years before joining Berwanger. Mr. Perez focused on the pressure relief analysis business for Berwanger, first as a process engineer and then as the business development manager. In 2004, he started up Celerity3 Engineering, which provided process engineering and process safety solutions. He sold C3 to Lloyd's Register in 2008. After staying with LR for 2 years, John Perez left in November of 2010 to start Cognascents. Cognascents is a business...Read more

Jost O.L. Wendt

Jost O.L. Wendt is Presidential Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Utah. Previously he was Head of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. Jost obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD., and his B.Sc. in the same subject from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The author of over 100 peer reviewed papers and over 250 presentations, Jost is internationally recognized for his wide-ranging research on reduction of emissions from combustion...Read more

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