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Dr. Michael Schaller

Michael Schaller is the Process Technology Risk Assessment Global Leader for The Dow Chemical Company. Schaller joined Dow in 1987 after receiving his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.  His Dow career has been spent nearly equally in three different functions: manufacturing, process engineering and R&D.

Schaller’s manufacturing roles include production engineer, improvement engineer, process control engineer, capital project leader and production coordinator.  As a process engineer, Schaller supported capital and asset improvement projects...Read more

Ms. Joan Roller

Joan Roller is currently the business development manager for CRI, a custom milling, blending and repackaging company located in Fountain Inn, South Carolina.

Before coming to CRI, Joan worked as a tolling business development manager for FutureFuel Chemical Company for 5 years. Prior to this, she worked in business development for Eastman Chemical Company in their custom/tolling business. Her career at Eastman/Kodak spans 32 years in which she held numerous jobs in manufacturing and business units.

Joan graduated from East Tennessee State University in 1974 in Chemistry. Her...Read more

Mr. Michael Popule

Michael Popule is the Reaction Engineer Group Manager in the Process and Separations Center at Air Products where he is primarily responsible for process development for the commercialization of new offerings, reduced cost productivity and increased asset leverage.

He holds BS and ME degrees in Chemical Engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and Lehigh University respectively.  He has 25 years of experience in process development at both Air Products and Rhone Poulenc.
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Mr. John Peragine

John Peragine is a Senior Principal Technical Investigator in Manufacturing Technologies for Bristol-Myers Squibb and has over 30 years of experience in scale-up and technology transfer to commercial product manufacturing.  He is part of a team responsible for technology transfer of all finished product pharmaceutical dosage forms to manufacturing sites worldwide. Previous responsibilities included the technical evaluation and implementation of Process Analytical Technologies for pharmaceutical processing operations and finished product dosage forms.  He was a member of several...Read more

Ronald Leng

Ron is a chemical engineer, graduating from Michigan Technological University in 1981 who characterizes himself as a “Process Integrator” vs. a deep, but narrow subject matter expert. Over his 35 year career with Dow he has held a variety of roles in both Research and Development and in Manufacturing. He has manufacturing experience ranging from world scale Chlor-Alkali to small, specialty blown and cast film plants. Ron has extensive experience in the development and scale up of new processes as well as the development of supply strategies, with primary focus in the Agricultural Chemicals arena.Read more

Martin D. Johnson

Dr. Johnson is VP, Engineering at Eli Lilly in Synthetic Molecule Design and Development. He received his dual doctorate in chemical engineering and environmental engineering from the University of Michigan in 2000, and his undergraduate in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Tech.Read more

Kevin G. Joback

Dr. Joback is president and founder of Molecular Knowledge Systems, a small business located in Bedford, New Hampshire.

For more than 25 years he has worked in the areas of physical property estimation and chemical product design. He has developed a number of group contribution estimation techniques now widely used in industry. He has designed numerous chemical products including environmentally friendly cleaning and separation solvents, new lubricants, enhanced phase-change thermal storage materials, improved jet and rocket fuels, and non-hazardous aircraft deicing fluids. His...Read more

Mr. Brad Duckworth

Brad Duckworth is a Technology Group Leader at Eastman Chemical Company in Tennessee. He has been with Eastman since 1992 where he has been in various positions in both Eastman’s Longview, Texas, and Kingsport, Tennessee sites. His experiences include not only pilot plant scale-up, technology licensing, technical service, process improvement, process development, but also business management. Brad is currently leading a team at Eastman to develop a vision for an optimized way to do piloting and scale-up of new technologies.

Brad obtained a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from...Read more

Dr. John Dillon

John is Vice President of API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) Technology Operations, Pfizer Global Supply. He began his career at Bristol-Myers Squibb as a Research Scientist in 1983 and progressed through positions of increasing responsibility culminating in his appointment as Director of Chemical Development Labs.

He joined Honeywell in 2000 as Global Head of Technology for the Pharmaceutical Fine Chemical Business. In 2001 he joined Schering-Plough where he was responsible for Technology Transfer of API (Small-molecule and Biotech) from Research to Manufacturing as well as...Read more

Dr. David Berg

David joined DuPont in November 1986 at the Research and Development Centre in Kingston, Ontario. He has progressed through a series of different roles over the past 19 years and is currently Technology Group Leader – Process Development with responsibility for leading a diverse portfolio of projects including development and licensing of Versipol® catalyst technology, and development of a new family of biobased polymers.

David is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen’s University in the Department of Chemical Engineering since 1997 and was Treasurer of the Canadian Society...Read more

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