Victor H. Edwards, PhD, P.E., is a chemical engineering consultant with VHE Technical Analysis (Email: m2vhe@att.net). He has more than 50 years of experience in process safety management, process and environmental engineering, and pressure relief systems. His more than 100 career projects include biochemical and chemical processes, coal gasification, methanol-to-gasoline, liquefied natural gas (LNG), chemical weapons demilitarization, hazardous waste disposal, and emergency relief systems. In 2015, Edwards retired as Director of Process Safety for IHI...Read more

Gregg Kiihne joined BASF Corporation 18 years ago after receiving his chemical engineering degree from The University of Texas.  After assignments in operations and project engineering, Gregg joined the corporate process safety team in 1997, supporting all BASF sites in North America.

As part of the global BASF process safety organization, Gregg has had assignments in Detroit, MI and Altamira, Mexico, and is now based at the Freeport, TX site.

When not making BASF safer for employees and the community, Gregg enjoys helping his wife raise their three energetic children,...Read more

Bilal Patel is a consultant at the Centre of Material and Process Synthesis (COMPS), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He obtained his BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand.
 
He has received numerous awards during his PhD studies, including the NRF Scarce Skills Scholarship and the Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Programme Scholarship.

His research interest is in the field of Process synthesis and integration. He is particularly interested in developing systematic methods and tools to aid in...Read more

Reyad has worked in BP for over 19 years and joined as a graduate with a master’s degree in chemical engineering and chemical technology from Imperial College, London. He has worked in all of BP's operational business segments and in corporate roles in finance and BP's executive office. In exploration and production he worked in commercial roles in UK Offshore and in Algeria. In retail and marketing, he led European supply and logistics, and US commercial fuels marketing. Reyad has also worked in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. His previous role was chief executive of BP’s...Read more

Mr. Neil Gussman is the strategic communications and media relations manager for Chemical Heritage Foundation, a library and museum in Philadelphia. For the past eight years he has written the column “We’re History” on oddities in the history of chemistry for Chemical Engineering Progress magazine (American Institute of Chemical Engineers), and news articles for Chemical Heritage magazine. He also reviews books on the history of chemistry and chemical weapons for Books and Culture magazine.  Neil returned to the Army National Guard after...Read more

Brian Bahor is the Vice President of Sustainability at Covanta Energy Corporation, where he is responsible for climate change projects and management of its sustainability report. Mr. Bahor has been employed as an environmental professional for 29 years, including 22 years at Covanta. He has led a variety of diverse environmental projects, primarily in the waste management industry.

Mr. Bahor received his Bachelors Degree in Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and has also completed two graduate programs at Stevens Institute of Technology – a graduate...Read more

Dr Robin Pitblado is one of DNV's leading risk analysts and is responsible for the HSE technical activity globally. He has 30 years experience in risk assessment activities covering safety management systems, technical risk, and major accident investigation. He is based in Houston but travels extensively to other DNV offices. He has been working for the last 3 years on developing an Operations Safety portfolio of services based around safety barriers, culture, and enhanced web-based safety communications.Read more

Janet Hammill is an employee of The Dow Chemical Company, a global diversified chemicals company. She is a graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon University Chemical Engineering Masters program with an undergraduate degree in Chemistry. In her position as Organizational Effectiveness Leader and Master Black Belt (MBB) she has applied Six Sigma methodology to build roadmaps of process excellence and mentor performance improvement teams. She is currently providing Organizational Effectiveness support as an MBB for the Ras Tanura Integrated Project, a proposed joint venture between Dow and Saudi...Read more

Peter Lodal is the Principal for D&H Process Safety of Kingsport TN.  He is a retired Technical Fellow of Eastman Chemical Company, having spent nearly 42  years with Eastman in various positions including process engineering,  process safety and loss prevention. Pete is the author or co-author of over 20 papers and publications, a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a Fellow of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). He is a past Director and Treasurer of AIChE. Pete holds BS and MS degrees in...Read more

RC Ramaswamy, has a BS from Anna University, Chennai and MS from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, all in chemical engineering. Since 2006, he has been working for Eastman Chemical Company as an R&D engineer. RC has been an AIChE member since 2003.Read more