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Bea Ponnudurai

Dr Bea has 30 years of working experience in the Oil and Gas Industry. She has a PhD in Chemistry and currently holds the position of Head, Group HSE Division for PETRONAS as of March 2012. 

She joined PETRONAS in 1992 heading areas in Laboratory Management, Quality and HSE Management in a PETRONAS Petrochemical company followed by 6 years as Head for HSE Audit at the Group HSE Division. She was General Manager, HSE Strategy & Performance at the Group level before taking up the position of General Manager HSEQ and Director of Engen Petroleum Ltd, a PETRONAS subsidiary in...Read more

Michael Millard

Mike Millard is the Sr. Vice President and General Manager for the Catalyst, Adsorbents & Specialty sector of UOP.  In this role, Mike has worldwide P&L accountability for seventy different UOP Catalyst and adsorbent products.  The activities include preparation of the strategic, annual operation plan, market plans for each product line to support new product launch strategies and VOC based stage gate business cases to guide R&D programs and ISC capital planning.  Market communications plans are developed to align with segment strategies and brand image.

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Umesh Dhake

Umesh Dhake, Asia Pacific Regional Manager for Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) is a Chemical engineer with more than 15 years of experience in Risk Consulting.  Previously, Umesh worked with ABS Consulting- Risk Division and Germanischer Lloyds GmbH. 

He was involved in Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Consequence Analysis, QRA studies, MAH Bow Ties development, SIL verifications as per IEC 61511, Fit for Purpose Certifications for offshore ageing assets- pipelines and platforms. Umesh is also Lead auditor, Lead Tutor for Quality, Environmental, and Occupational...Read more

Wayne Genck

Dr. Genck is president of Genck International, a consulting firm specializing in crystallization and precipitation. He has consulted with over 300 companies on a wide range of issues, including troubleshooting, design, scale-up, caking, polymorphism, downstream processing, the impact of additives and impurities plus microscopic examination of solids. Both batch and continuous processing has been addressed for inorganic and organic substances. Dr. Genck has written chapters on crystallization for three industry handbooks as well as numerous articles published in chemical...Read more

Walter Frank

Walt Frank is President of Frank Risk Solutions, Inc. and is a Fellow of both the AIChE and the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).  He received his BSChE from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1973 and has worked in the process industries in various capacities for over 45 years, beginning as a lab technician for Pfizer while working his way through college. After graduation, he joined DuPont where, over 14 years, he held positions in plant technical support, manufacturing supervision, R&D, project design, and project start-up.  He subsequently moved to...Read more

Ellen Lenz

Ellen Lenz has over 40 years of experience in the chemical industry working in plant operations, process safety and operational excellence, process development and commercialization, and project management at Lyondellbasell Industries and BASF Corporation.

Ellen is a certified process safety professional and has expertise facilitating PHA and risk assessments, developing corporate process safety standards, transferring and applying process safety information across organizations, scaleup, and EH&S...Read more

Frank Renshaw

Frank Renshaw is a certified process safety professional, certified safety professional, and certified industrial hygienist.  He is currently serving as an EHS consultant with Bayberry EHS Consulting LLC after 35 years with Dow Advanced Materials (formerly the Rohm and Haas Company).

He held various positions at Rohm and Haas including: EHS Director for Specialty Materials, Corporate Safety Director and Corporate Industrial Hygiene Director. He chaired the company’s Code of Safe Manufacturing Practice Committee, coordinated a business-wide initiative on closed system...Read more

Byron Sun

Byron has over 27 years of experience in chemical industry including 9 years as chemical engineer, 6 years as production management and 12 years as safety, health and environment professional. Byron worked for China Petrochemical Company (now SINOPEC) for 9 years and DuPont Company for 15 years. From 2004 through 2012, he was Safety, Health and Environment Manager for DuPont China. In 2012, Byron Sun became a full time safety consultant and joined CCPS as staff consultant.

Byron received a diploma from Shanghai Science and Technology University and obtained a Master Degree from...Read more

Robert Rosen

Bob is currently a Staff Consultant and Instructor for CCPS. Bob has over 15 years in chemical production management, five years in project and process engineering management and 20 years in the safety, health and environment area.  From 1997 through 2003, he was the Director of Emergency Response and Issue Management for BASF Corporation in Mount Olive, NJ.   Since 2003, Bob has done Occupational Safety, Process Safety and Emergency Response consulting. Prior to 1997, Bob worked for Merck, Polaroid, Story Chemical, and Polysar.

Bob received a B.Ch.E in 1966...Read more

James Conner

Jim Conner joined CCPS as a Staff Consultant in 2011. He has 35 years of experience in chemical process engineering, chemical manufacturing operations, and R&D across operations in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and North America. Most recently Jim held the position of Sr. Vice President, Operations for Enerkem, a solid waste-to-chemicals startup venture. Prior to Enerkem, he served as Vice President, Operations and Technology for Celanese, with responsibility for domestic and international operations and R&D facilities. He also was accountable for the design and startup of a world-...Read more

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