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Paul Martin

Paul is a program manager and senior technical fellow at Zeton Inc.  During his 20 years at Zeton Inc., Paul has been principal engineer, lead consultant and project manager on numerous pilot- and demo-scale projects across the wide breadth of the chemical process industry.  Prior to Zeton, Paul worked in the environmental consulting industry and in the design and development of novel treatment technologies for contaminated ground- and wastewaters.  Paul has a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo....Read more

Christianto Wibowo

James Robinson

Gregory Benz, P.E.

Gregory T. Benz, P.E., is president of Benz Technology International, Inc. (2305 S Clarksville Rd., Clarksville, OH 45113; Phone: (937) 289-4504; Fax: (937) 289-3914; Email: g.benz@benz-tech.com; www.benz-tech.com). He also partners with Terrace International (www.terraceinternational.com) and Lee Enterprises Consulting Partners (www.lee-enterprises.com). He has over 40 years of experience designing agitation systems...Read more

Minye Liu

Minye Liu is a principal consultant in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and mixing at Chemours. Previously, he worked for DuPont, Procter & Gamble Co.; Cray Research, Inc., and subsequently Silicon Graphics, Inc.; and the Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity at Rutgers Univ.

He has served in the executive committee of the North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) since 2005 and has served as treasurer (2007 – 2010), vice president (2010 – 1012), and President (2012 – 2014). He is the 2014 recipient of NAMF Award for excellence and sustained...Read more

Stavros Papadokonstantakis

Stavros Papadokonstantakis studied Chemical Engineering (National Technical University of Athens, BSc+MSc, 1993-1998) and obtained his PhD in the field of "Modeling Chemical Engineering Processes with Neural Networks" in 2006. He has worked for 3 years (2003-2005) as engineering consultant in American Process Inc. (Atlanta, US - Athens, Greece) in the field of "Energy Monitoring in Pulp and Paper Industries".  Since 2007, he has been conducting research in sustainability aspects of process design (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich). Since 2014, as...Read more

Paul Szabo

Avani Patel



Avani Patel is the Senior Global R&D Director responsible for silicones process research for the Dow Consumer Solutions (DCS) business. In this role, she directs research for all silicone related process technologies for the Feedstocks & Intermediates and Performance Silicones & Specialty Materials businesses of Consumer Solutions, including product launches, process innovation, and manufacturing plant optimization. 

Avani began her career with Dow in 1997 as a Research Engineer in Dow Core R&D in Midland, MI. Since then, she has held several...Read more

David Kahn

Mr. Kahn is a process risk and automation specialist with focused experience in Process Safety Management development and facilitation of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to risk assessment. 

Prior to entering the field of PSM consulting, Mr. Kahn developed a foundation in instrumentation and automation, including design, programming, and integrity level verification of Safety Instrumented Functions with...Read more

Elizabeth Guenther

Elizabeth Guenther is a Senior Industrial Engineer at OSRAM Sylvania with responsibility for processes and projects at its Eastern Distribution Center. She is this year’s AIChE Young Professionals Committee (YPC) Chair and YPC liaison to the Career and Education Operating Council.

Prior to joining OSRAM Sylvania, Elizabeth worked in other non-chemical fields as a Lean Manufacturing Engineer at Mack Trucks, Inc and an Operations Engineer at Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.  Prior to holding the position of Chair in YPC, Elizabeth held the positions of Vice Chair and...Read more

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