Derek is the Team Lead for Gexcon Australia. He is a Fellow with Engineering Australia and has been working in process safety and risk management for around 25 years. Derek has worked in many aspects of process and technical safety over the years including consulting on both greenfield and brownfields projects for companies such as Gexcon and Worley as well as managing operational process safety for companies such as ConocoPhillips and Santos.
Derek currently leads a team of engineers in the Australian office of Gexcon. At Gexcon Derek assists companies identify, assess, understand and manage their process safety risks in a range of different industries. In Australia Gexcon provides services to a wide range of hazardous industries including oil and gas, mining, CCUS, hydrogen and batteries.