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Thomas Hanley

Thomas R. Hanley is a professor of chemical engineering at Auburn Univ. After earning three degrees at Virginia Tech and a tour at the Air Force Materials Laboratory, he moved to Tulane Univ., where he served as AIChE student chapter advisor and chaired the New Orleans Section. At Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he chaired AIChE’s Terre Haute Section. While department chair at Louisiana Tech and Florida A&M/Florida State Univ., he was General Arrangements Chair (1986 Annual Meeting), Meeting Program Chair (1988 Annual Meeting), and chair of the Tallahassee Section. While...Read more

Jerrad Thomas

Mr. Jerrad Thomas is the carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration projects manager at Southern Company. He oversees carbon capture projects at the large pilot scale spanning a range of technologies, which are located at host sites throughout the Southern Company network. He previously held positions as project manager and project engineer at Forsythe and Long Engineering, a design/build engineering firm in north Alabama, and he holds two bachelor of science degrees from the University of Alabama, one in chemical engineering and one in physics. Currently, he is pursuing his...Read more

Alfonsius Ariawan

Alfonsius Ariawan is a Global Solution Architect with DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS), based in Ontario, Canada, Alfonsius is a Chemical Engineer by train-ing. In his role with DSS, Alfonsius specializes in Operational Risk Management and has provided support to clients in the Mining and Oil and Gas industries. With extensive experience in providing performance management, data collection and analysis support, Alfonsius is also a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He has acted as mentor to many improvement project teams and has shared his experiences to clients externally.Read more

David Drerup

Dave Drerup is the CEO of Operational Sustainability and has over 20 years of experience providing process safety and operational excellence solutions to a variety of clients in the petroleum, chemical and manufacturing industries. Areas of focus have included Title V permitting, compliance audits, corporate sustainability reporting, process/operational safety, asset and integrity management, risk management, solution architecture, mobile asset management, and engineering design. David has also built and managed an EHS IT consulting practice with over 70 consultants and recently led the...Read more

Colin Howat

Colin S. ‘Chip’ Howat is the principal associate of C. S. Howat & Associates (HowatRisk.com), the consulting firm he established in 1979.Read more

James Ritter

James A. Ritter, Ph.D., is the L. M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering and a Carolina Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of South Carolina.

He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989.Read more

David Foster

Dave Foster obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1988 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1999.

He spent over 30 years as industrial scientist/engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, while also teaching fundamental transport phenomena courses at the undergraduate and graduate level at the University of Rochester for the past 14 years.

He received the Engineering Professor of the Year Award for teaching excellence in 2007 and 2012.

He recently joined the authorship of "Fundamentals of Momentum,...Read more

Dave Randle

David A. Randle is the Technical Director for Frontier Laboratories, Ltd.  Supporting Frontier Lab’s business partners in North America, Dave brings over 20 years domestic and international management and business development experience with companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies to lead Frontier’s strategic direction and growth.  As a former lab manager, Dave also has hands-on experience with many analytical techniques including GC/MS, which is a critical component to the pyrolysis and catalysis products manufactured by Frontier. Dave conducts...Read more

Anahita Williamson

Dr. Anahita Williamson serves as Director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In this role, Williamson leads NYSP2I’s statewide research and technology transfer efforts in pollution prevention, sustainable design and life cycle engineering. Anahita and her team provide comprehensive pollution prevention resources to companies across New York.

Dr. Williamson has extensive experience in the field of environmental engineering, including manufacturing process modification for improved material recovery and reuse, design...Read more

Christina Borgese

Christina Borgese is Director of Engineering and Development at PreProcess, Inc., a process development, engineering, and program leadership firm that delivers customized technical solutions to entrepreneurs.  Focused on first of their kind chemical processes, Christina and her team scale systems from bench, to pilot, to plant and lead the commercialization process for projects with values up to one billion dollars.

In 2013 Christina was recognized for excellence by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering and in 2010 her team received a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer...Read more

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