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Monty M. Alger

Monty Alger is a professor of chemical engineering at the Pennsylvania State Univ., where he is Director, Institute for Natural Gas Research. His more than 30 years of experience in the chemicals and energy industries includes positions as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., and as Senior Vice President of Research at Myriant. He spent 23 years at General Electric (GE), where he led technology development at the Global Research Center of GE Plastics, and was the General Manager of Technology for the Advanced Materials business.

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Andre R. Da Costa

Dr. Andre Da Costa has over 26 years of diverse Chemical Engineering experience. He is currently a Chemical Engineering Manager with Corning Incorporated. Prior to this position, Andre worked for Chevron in different roles and most recently as an Engineering Manager on a capital improvement project for North American exploration and production. Prior to Chevron, Andre held the role of Process Development Manager at Membrane Technology and Research in the San Francisco Bay Area where he led research and development of separation technologies for natural gas, refining, and petrochemicals....Read more

Dr. Phillip R. Westmoreland

Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North CarolinaState University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research focuses on reaction kinetics and engineering, obtained from experiments, computational chemistry and reactor modeling. His Chemical Engineering degrees are fromN.C. State (BS73), LSU (MS74) and MIT (PhD86). From 1986-2009, Phil was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in 2006-2009 he served as a Program Director at NSF.

He was 2013 AIChE President; is a Trustee and past president of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation; and was...Read more

John Williams

John Williams has been a consultant to government entities engaged in the waste management including the waste-to-energy field for the past 25 years including 23 with HDR Engineering and several years prior with Hayden Wegman. He is on the WTERT Advisory Board as well as the faculty at Columbia University. Much of his experience is rooted in guiding public project sponsors through the full service procurement process associated with the development of public private partnerships.

For the past several years his efforts have broadened to address issues related to sustainability and...Read more

Reka Sumangali

As a Research Associate at Lux Research, Reka’s contributions to advisory projects include analysis of the water technology landscape for market opportunities, evaluating industrial applications of ongoing nanotechnology research, and assisting multinational corporations in navigating energy-related technologies and opportunities. Reka has also been working in the Water, Alternative Fuels, and Bio-Based Materials and Chemicals Intelligence practices, where she has conducted extensive primary and secondary research on topics ranging from desalination, the intersection of energy and water,...Read more

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