Mark S. Dreux is a partner of Arent Fox’s Labor & Employment practice and is a nationally recognized expert in occupational safety and health law. Mark specializes in representing employers and trade associations in all aspects of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act). His practice includes counseling clients in regulatory compliance with the standards and regulations which the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the state plans have promulgated, investigating significant workplace incidents, managing OSHA inspections, contesting OSHA citations,...Read more

Blair Wheeler joined AspenTech in 2005 as Senior Vice President, Marketing, and leads the company's product management, product marketing, corporate marketing, and partners organizations. Blair brings to AspenTech oil and gas industry experience and more than 20 years of technology marketing, product management, and partner development experience. His experience also includes senior-level positions at Avid Technology, The Boston Consulting Group, and Amoco Production Company. Blair holds an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School, and a BS degree in Geology and Geophysics from Yale...Read more

Dr. Arthur William Etchells is a world recognized authority in the field of mixing for the process industries. He is a chemical engineer with BS and MS degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate from the University of Delaware.  For thirty nine years he worked for the DuPont Company, primarily as an internal consultant for the many diverse DuPont businesses in the field of fluid flow with emphasis on mixing and slurry transport. He has achieved the highest technical level of DuPont Fellow and the highest technical award, the Lavoisier Medal.

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Wendy Young is AIChE’s Senior Director of the Institute for Learning & Innovation (ILI). In this role, she leads the business units responsible for Education/Workforce Development and Membership/Career Services. By promoting career discovery, skills development, practice plus (ex. internships) and certifications, the ILI is positioned to provide value to chemical engineers throughout all stages of their careers – from the classroom to the boardroom.

Wendy is joining AIChE’s team after dedicating time to the Institute as a volunteer in a wide variety of roles throughout her...Read more

Dan Banks is a chemical engineering graduate of Rice University, and a P.E. in Oklahoma. He has worked with combustion systems for 33 years, mostly in the design of thermal oxidizer systems for vapors and liquids.

He began private consulting as Banks Engineering in 1996. Presently his work includes combustor accident investigations, safety reviews, and system upgrades to improve performance and safety. He also designs new combustor systems and assists end users with system specifications and proposal evaluation.Read more

Jeremy Lebowitz is an Associate Engineer at the Boston office of Rolf Jensen & Associates. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has project experience in industrial and laboratory facility design and code consulting, as well as explosion protection.Read more

Jonathan Eisenberg, P.E. is the Associate Manager of the Boston office of Rolf Jensen & Associates. He is a licensed fire protection engineer, with over 9 years of fire protection and code consulting experience, as well as over 11 years of chemical engineering and chemical plant management experience. Mr. Eisenberg has extensive project experience in industrial, chemical, and laboratory facility design and code consulting, as well as explosion protection and fire suppression system design for special hazards. He is a member of the NFPA 30 (flammable and combustible liquids) and NFPA...Read more

Michael P. Broadribb, C.Eng., is a senior principal consultant with BakerRisk’s Process Safety Group (Email: mbroadribb@bakerrisk.com). He began work at BakerRisk in Dec. 2009 after more than 40 years of service with bp. He has worked in onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production facilities, oil refineries, and marine terminals in Europe and North America. He holds a BSc in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Wales. Broadribb is a chartered engineer in the U.K. and fellow of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).Read more

Michael Knight has been with BP for 29 years and currently acts as the consultant on improvements around the refining supply chain, from crude acquisition through to manufacturing and operations. His career at BP includes building teams to deliver process modeling, simulation tools for plant engineers, LP and scheduling models, advanced control, and on-line optimization applications. Michael's current focus is to support work to improve business processes and tools for scheduling.Read more

Dr. Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, has been on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology since 1988 and has served as Professor since 1991. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Beckman Institute Molecular Materials Resource Center at Caltech since 1992. From 1981 to 1986, he was on the faculty at Stanford, as an assistant professor from 1981 to 1985 and as a tenured Associate Professor from 1986 to 1988. Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Lewis has been an Alfred P....Read more