International Polyolefins Conference 2020 Attendees First Name Last Name Title Company Ron Abbott Sustainability Technical Manager Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC David Abdallah Researcher ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Michael Abrams Principal Scientist Arkema Inc. Zach Adams Millad Global Product Line Manager Milliken & Company Adeniji Adetayo Ph.D. Student Texas State University Ashok Adur retired Everest International Consulting (LLC) Rigoberto Advincula Professor ORNL/UTK and CWRU Jennifer Aiello Ms. Queen’s University Kevin Alexander Independent Mfg Rep KwaTech LLC Veniamin Alpern Senior Expert SIBUR LLC Francisco Alvarez Sr. Technical Service Engineer Shell Polymers Nilesh Amrutiya Senior Process Engineer Pregis Kevin Anderson Application Engineer 3M Stephanie Angelo Business Development Manager Polymer Products, A Division of PMC Jerome Anokwu Mr University of Salford Mubashir Ansari Dr. Dow Daniel Aranda Regional Sales Manager Siltech Corporation Ichihiro Aratani Manager Kuraray Co., Ltd. Lupita Arellano Technical Sales Manager Kiusma Americas Dr. Pal Arjunan CEO/President EUREKA-GlobChem Consultants Marcel Arno Regional Sales BASF Barbara Arnold-Feret 3D Printing and Digital Manufacturing HP Inc. Gregory Arzoumanidis Principal Consultant Oakwood Consulting, Inc. Leslie Atkinson Process / Project Consultant Self Iman Bahrani Sales Rep. Omya Inc. Carl Baker Sr. Technical Service Engineer - Pipe Shell Polymers Joel Baldeon Senior R&D OPPFILM SA Sudarshan Banger Industry Manager - Chemicals & Plastics Schenck Process Sourya Banik Mr. Texas Tech University Christina Barry Process Engineer Chevron Phillips Hatice Basbug Alhan Research Assistant University of Houston Parish Basham Vice President of Sales, Southwest Azelis Americas CASE Margaret Baumann President Performance Polymers and Additives LLC Cary Baur Manager, R&D / Applications Development - Polymers EOS Ron Becker Manager - New Business Development SI Group Rojin Belganeh Technical Director Frontier Lab Rojin Belganeh Technical Director Frontier lab Thomas Bell Owner/Managing Director S & T Group LLC Susan Bell Executive Director IHS Markit Amel Ben Mrad PhD Student C2P2 Laboratory Zsolt Bencze Dir. Sales & Business Development Entegris Paul Benenati Research Scientist Dexco Dan Berg Global Manager Transportation BYK USA Derek Berkeley Sales Coperion Paul Bessonette Advanced Research Associate ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Donald Beuke Technical Manager Mitsui Plastics Inc. Gaurav Bhalla Managing Director KEMVEDA SERVICES Mark Bissaillon Account Manager Baerlocher USA Alberto Blanco Key Account Rep C&A Daikin America Jaime Blanton Director of Sales - North America Evonik Corp Bill Bodiford Product Development Flint Hills Resources Dominik Bold North America Regional Product Manager BASF Chrystal Boone VP, Marketing Brightmark Jeremiah Born LLDPE Production Engineer Westlake Chemical Tim Boundy Key Accounts PMC Biogenix Edward Bourbonais VP of Marketing Technology Chemtrusion Inc. Terry Bourgeois Customer Service Manager Townsend Solutions Tyne Brandon Account Manager 3M Patrick Brant Consultant CH2-X Michelle Brieske GKA Sales BASF John Brindle Market Development Manager Westlake Chemical Axel Brito International Business Corporacion Sierra Madre SA de CV Dave Britt Account Manager Maroon Group LLC Chad Brown Research Chemist Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Robert Browning R&D Engineer Valéron Strength Films Andrea Browning Product Manager Schrodinger Robert Bruell Manager Fraunhofer LBF Robert Brulotte Director of New Product Innovation - Plastics Vanderbilt Chemicals Jayne Brunswick GM Purchasing Advanced Composites Francisco Buitrago Scientist Arkema Inc Christoph Burgstaller Managing Director TCKT GmbH Patrick Burke Sales Manager Omya Inc. Brian Burton Regional Director of Sales Milliken & Company Yasemin Buyukeren Global Purchasing DIrector Hayat Kimya San S A Cole Calland Americas Sales Director Kraton Performance Polymers Rodney Cardona Director De Producto Esenttia S.A. Cosimo Carfagna Global Business Developmen Manager SACO AEI Polymers / AESSE Richard Carranza Editor Houston Energy Industry News Brock Carroll Account Manager Dow Chemical Robert Carter Product Development Engineer Advanced Composites, Inc. DeShay Carter System Sales Zeppelin Systems USA Roberto Castaneda North American Sales Director -- Special Additives Baerlocher USA Barry Cavinaw Director, Engineering Agilyx J. Fernando Cevallos-Candau Senior Business Development Manager W.R. Grace Debtosh Chakrabarti CEO PMC Group Morrie Chamberlain Technical Sales Azelis Americas Edward Chapman Manager Poly America Zach Charlton SVP Technology Ingenia Polymers Xuejian Chen Postdoc University of Houston Sixue Cheng Doctoral Candidate Texas Tech University Chia Cheng President Polymertech LLC Thomas Chirayil Senior Scientist BASF Dan Chirico Technical Sales Manager - Central States Mitsui Chemicals America, INC Yashodan Chitnis Vice President Fine Organics Industries Ltd Byoung-Ho Choi Professor Korea University Lamy Chopin Chief Scientist Liqui-Box Tonoy Chowdhury PhD Student University of North Texas Gale Clark VP Development and Origination Brightmark Energy Matthew Clauss Sales Director Solvay Polymer Additives Blair Colby Product Specialist Flint Hills Resources Renee Colyer Regional Sales Manager JM Huber Travis Coney Market Manager Imerys Talc c/o WeWork Michael Connor President NoracAdditives LLC Tyler Cooksey Graduate Assistant University of Houston, Chemical Engineering Terence Cooper Chief Executive Officer Argo Group International Chanard Cooper Business Director- Compounds & Additives Daikin Scott Courter Vice President, Sales Valtris Specialty Chemicals Nathan Crawford Rheology Applications Specialist Thermo Fisher Scientific Sean Crews South East Sales Manager 3V Sigma USA Mike Cubera Commercial Manager Nouryon Tyler Culp Senior Research Specialist The Dow Chemical Company Daniel Currence Director of Engineering - Drainage Plastics Pipe Institute Kent Cutler Sales Manager Imerys Talc David D'Amato Global Sales Director Solvay Chaitanya Danda Research Assistant CWRU Robert Daniel Managing Director PROGNOST Systems Inc michael danylo Sales Manager Clariant Michel Daumerie Consultant Consultant Parashar Dave Senior Technical Sales Service Manager Huber Engineered Materials Donna Davis Sustainability and Advocacy Manager ExxonMobil Chemical Company Stephen Davis Licensing Manager - Americas LyondellBasell Jeffrey Davis Regional Sales Manager AMETEK - Westchester Plastics Alexander De Groot Dr. The Dow Chemical Company Carlos De La Rosa Product Development Manager Reef Industries Inc. Cristovao De Lemos Dr. SAUDI INTERNATIONAL PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY Robbin Dean Business Development Manager 3V Sigma USA Carmelo Declet-Perez Dr. Dow Judd Delcambre Purchasing Manager Pinnacle Polymers Fanny Deplace Senior Technical Service & Development Manager SK Global Chemical Amit Desai Senior Scientist Kraton Polymers LLC Bhushan Deshpande VP of Technology Techmer Polymer Modifiers John Desmarteau Director of Communications and Government Affairs Agilyx Corporation Dean Dodaro Quality & Engineering Manager POLYVEL INC. Rob Dolan Business Director, North America and Europe HE-RO Chemicals Eric Doll Business Engineer Baerlocher Production USA Mei Dong Graduate Student Texas A&M University Antonios Doufas Dr. Exxonmobil Chemical Roger Doughlin Process Engineer Zeppelin Systems USA Patrick Downey Sales Manager Imerys Talc c/o WeWork Dell Doyle Research Scientist Dow Chemical Shaun Duhaime Account Manager 3M Company Maarten Dullaert Commercial Manager Katoen Natie Erik Dunham Sr Product Development Engineer Westlake Chemical Tuerxun Duolikun Mr Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre Robert Dushek CEO Natural Frequency Sam D'Uva Business Manager - Superblends Ingenia Polymers, Inc. Christopher Dziedziak Senior Project Associate The Catalyst Group Resources Alma Dzudza Sr Business Development Manager W.R. Grace Warren Ebenezer Dr SI Group Lawrence Effler Development Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Baris Ege Strategic Purchasing Group Manager Hayat Kimya San A S Fred Ehrman Chief Engineer Polyethylene Process Technology ExxonMobil Chemical Company Sarah Eisel Pelletizing Systems Sales Manager Davis-Standard, LLC Florian Eisenbarth Head of Sales Resin Producer/GKA BASF Erik Elliott Account Manager Gillco Products Kevin Ellis Regional Sales Manager Huber Engineered Materials Ryan Emerick Business Development Manager Maag Automatik, Inc. -- The Maag Group Nicholas Emerine Process Engineer Westlake Chemical Jerry Eng Director, NBD and Technical Service Solvay Piergiovanni Ercoli Malacari Product and application development manager Imi Fabi Spa Ana Estrada President ATDP Inc Jan Eubeler CEO COLLIN Lab & Pilot Solutions, Inc. Shannon Everett Midwest Sales Mgr. Arctic Minerals, LLC Greg Facchine Mr. Milliken Daniel Falla Technical Service Shell Polymers Paul Farwig Product Manager BASF Joseph Fay Expert, Plastic Additives Bldg/Constr BASF Frederik Feddes VP Biochemicals Corbion William Fender Global Business Unit Leader, Additives Dover Chemical Corporation Erica Ferreira Global Procurement Manager Braskem Simone Ferrero Sales Manager Sulzer Chemtech Marlus Ferretti Chief Operating Officer, Americas Kisuma Americas Inc Chip Few Sr Research Chemist Milliken Chemical Ben File General Manager Natural Minerals Tad Finnegan Sr. Technical Manager BASF Anthony Fiorini Sales Engineer Techmer PM Jim Foerster Southwest Regional Sales Manager PMC Group Kenneth Forziati Director of Business Development & Product Management Parkinson Technologies Inc Jeffrey Foster Technical Service Techmer PM Renato Frimm Senior Markets Editor ICIS Ying-Hua Fu PhD candidate seeking for an industry position Texas A&M University Dorie Fuller Account Manager BASF James Gacek Executive Vice President, Managing Director of North & Latin America Chitec Technology Co., Ltd. Avi Gadkari BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER TEKNOR APEX Vassilios Galiatsatos Advanced Polymer Solutions LyondellBasell Kristi Gangelhoff Global Product Marketer 3M Wenting Gao Engagement Manager McKinsey & Company Pablo Garcia Technical Service & Development Kuraray Gerardo Garcia Sr. Strategic Project Manager Evonik Corporation Akanksha Garg Associate Research Scientist Dow Chemical Company Sharon Garrison Account Manager Rianlon Corporation Brian Gauquier Market Development Manager - Plastics Vanderbilt Chemicals Jorge Gerdts Essentia S.A. Mahan Ghosh Mr. University at North Texas Ryan Gibbs Regional Sales Manager Brabender Technologie Inc. David Gilchrist Principal Dispersions Rodrick Gilder Account Manager Baerlocher Reid Gillam Regional Sales Manager TECHMER PM LLC Shawna Gillespie Sr. Commodity Manager NOVA Chemicals Corporation David Gillespie Mr Tosoh Bioscience LLC Jim Giolitto Vice-President, Specialty Chemicals and Materials Sales Entegris JASON Gitt Technical Sales Representative Lintech International Jim Gledhill VP Marketing and Sales Cimbar Performance Minerals Ankush Gokhale Sr. Research Scientist Amcor Flexibles Michael Goliinar Account Manager Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. Diana Gonzalez Regulatory Affairs Engineer Esenttia S.A Micah Green Associate Professor Texas A&M University Matthew Greenley Sales Manager-Polymers NAM Sibelco Al Greenwood Deputy News Editor ICIS Adrian Griffiths CEO Recycling Technologies Larry Gros Sustainability Innovation Manager ExxonMobil Chemical Company Li Guo Chemical Venture Advisor Motiva Enterprise LLC Dr.C.P. GUPTA VP (R7D) GOLCHA TALC Tim Haake gm GOETTFERT Scott Hagstrom Regional Manager - Strategic Accounts Innospec Fuel Specialties Robert Hall Senior Director Global Marketing Kraton Corporation John Hamburger Strategic Account Manager Nouryon Peter Hanik President Pretium Innovation LLC Ashley Hanlon Product Development Engineer Formosa Plastics David Hansen President SBC Polymers Consulting Rommel Hariprashad Technical Manager Vintex Inc Ryan Harrison Account Manager PCC Chemax Gretchen Hauble Global Business Manager, 3M Dynamar(tm) Polymer Processing Additives 3M Company John Hay Owner Osterman & Company Bill Hayes Vice President and General Manager PMC Group Kristen Hays Global Market Lead- Polymers S&P Global Platts Richard Hays Technical Account Manager IMCD Yvonne Hed Senior Researcher Norner AS Bruce Hein Consultant Ribelin Sales Inc. Janell Helton SPE-STX Coordinator SPE - Inspiring Plastics Professionals Bill Helton Staff SPE - Inspiring Plastics Professionals Thomas Hempel MatChar Specialist METTLER TOLEDO Stephan Henne NA Customer Service Manager C.W. Brabender Instruments Inc Jim Henry Principal Engineer Arkema Inc. JESUS HERNANDEZ MARKET DEVOLPMENT CHIEF INDUSTRIAS INDELPRO SA DE CV Michaela Herrmann Engineer Croda Niloofar Heshmati Aghda PhD Student Texas State University Bryan Hilke Midwest & Ontario Account Manager - EPT & Tafmer Mitsui Chemicals America Katia Hirt ENG BRASKEM Mike Hoech Vice President Zeppelin Systems USA PAUL HOMIK Products and Customer Services Manager Inter Pipeline Ltd Emile Homsi Research & Technology Manager Croda Michael Hoppe Sales Manager Emery Oleochemical LLC Jacob Horn Sales Mettler Toledo Mohammad Hossain Assistant Professor Texas A&M University-Kingsville Yushan Hu Sr Research Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Stan Huddleston Technical Services Manager GRACE John Hughes Gulf Coast Sales Director Dorstener Wire Tech Shanna Hulyk Associate Research Scientist Dow Charles Hunter Senior Manager, Research Trex John Hurley Engineer Trinity Resources Ltd. Paul Iacobucci Commercial Manager - Organic Peroxides N.A. Nouryon Alex Iida Sales Manager Kobe Steel, Ltd. Akihiro Iida Sales Manager Kobe Steel, Ltd. Tom Inch Market Manager - Thermoplpastics BYK USA Shinichi Ishikawa CEO Amfine Chemical Corporation Krishnan Iyer Senior Engineer ExxonMobil David Jack Associate Professor Baylor University Alexandre Jacquier Marketing Analyst Solvay Kris Jaggari Technical Development Manager Nouryon Michael Jakupca Director of Research and Development Dover Chemical Corporation Brendan Jamison Account Executive Wolf Container & Chemical Svein Jamtvedt Advisor Norner AS Doug Jewett Strategic Accounts Manager Dover Chemical Corporation Xiaozhou Ji Student/Graduate Student Texas A&M University Yan Jiang Senior Staff Engineer ExxonMobil Chemical Company Nicholas Johansen Polymer Scientist Daikin America David Johnson Sales Manager, Specialties North America Kraton Polymers LLS Gary Johnson Owner/Consultant CE Creative Eneterprises Scooter Jones Vice President Innovation and Technology Advanced Composites Emery Jorgenson Owner Jorgenson Polymers LLC Chris Jorgenson Sales Manager Jorgenson Polymers John Kaarto Principal Scientist W. R. Grace & Co. George Kalantzakis Business Manager - Primary Producer Division Ingenia Polymers, Inc. Vivek Kalihari Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Chuck Kaloczi Sales & Marketing Nouryon Surit Kandel Account Manager Ferro Corporation Shuhui Kang Chemist ExxonMobil Chemical Company Stu Kapp Sales Manager Leistritz Extrusion Mridula (Babli) Kapur Fellow Dow Chemical Company Teresa Karjala Principal Research Scientist Dow Naoshi Kawamoto Ph.D, Operating Officer, Head of Polymer Additives R&D ADEKA Corporation Richard Keeler Technical Sales Manager Kisuma Americas, Inc. Robert Keller Sustainability Manager BASF Katie Kellogg Account Manager Milliken & Company Taylor Kelly R&D Engineering Specialist Valéron Strength Films Ron Kesterke Global Key Acct Manager BASF Jay Khambekar Sr Consultant Jenike & Johanson Tossapol Khamnaen Dr SCG Chemicals Noshir Khandwawala Director of Technical Services Kisuma Americas Inc Liam Killough Mr NJC America Inc Jungdu Kim Technical Service Manager SONGWON MJ Kim Global Strategic Marketing Manager BASF Hyunwoo Kim Research Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Hyejin Kim Market Research Analyst Townsend Solutions Donna King Business Manager, Initiators Arkema Inc. Kysle King Sibelco North America Inc Roswell King Sr. Technical Manager BASF Corporation Steven King NAFTA Sales Manager Solvay Specialty Polymers, Inc. Dustin Kiser Account Manager NFM Welding Engineers, Inc. Jonathan Kleinman Vice President, New Business Development Azelis Americas Michelle Klump Polymers Editor Argus Media Saied Kochesfahani Sr. Scienstist Imerys Dharati Koenigs Senior Research Specialist Dow Andy Kovats Regional Sales Manager Brabender Technologie Inc. Stan Kramer North America Sales Director Huber Engineered Materials Fred Kramer Retired Tarquin Polymers & Colors, Inc. John Kreger Director of Sourcing and Industry Partnerships Montgomery County Food Bank John Kurdziel Chief Engineer Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. Mauricio Kusher Product Manager BASF Marvin Lai Global Sales Director Everspring Corp. USA Giorgio LaMotta General Manager Imerys Talc Jacob Lance Technical Manager, Polymer Additives Dover Chemical Corporation Tom Landels Director Distribution and Key Accounts Cimbar Performance Minerals Brian Landes President SPE Scott Laneman Director of Innovation Entegris Michele Laperna Innovation & New Product Development Manager Imerys Glenn Larkin, Jr. MBA, CPlasT Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LP Peter Lauzon Vice President PPI LLC John Layman Engineer The Procter and Gamble Company Jong-Young Lee Research Scientist DOW Chemical Cyrus Lee Application Development Formosa Plastics Jeho Lee Manager SK innovation Clifford Lee President Townsend Solutions Matt Lenington Senior Scientist BYK Charles Less Operations, Marketing and Sales Faci US Distribution LLC Wen Li Sr. Engineering Associate ExxonMobil Chemical Company Yongfu Li Research Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Ted Li Senior Staff Scientist air liquide Vincent Liang Product Specialist Phillips 66 Company Jordan Lightstone Undergraduate Researcher Georgia Tech Julie Lin JLS Chemical Co. Victor Lin PE Process Technology Manager Westlake Chemical Corporation YenTing Lin Student Texas A&M University Jing Liu Dr. GEON Performance Solutions Johnny Liu Director Polyindex Jason Loiland Sr. Scientist SABIC Brian Long Associate Professor Univ. of Tennessee Rob Lorenzini Technology Manager Maroon Group LLC Joao Lorenzoni Marketing Manager, Americas - Coatings, Polymers & Chemical Solutions Sibelco North America Inc Samantha Lowman Sales Representative JohnPac Robert Lowrie Field Sales Engineer Arkema Inc. Heidi Lu General Manager Chitec Technology Co., Ltd. Yu Hua Lu General Manager Chitec Technology Co., Ltd. Honglan Lu Sr. Director, R&D Formosa Plastics Corp., USA Ed Ludwig Sales Director Corbion Erik Luijendijk Product Manager PMC Biogenix Ronald Lutz Research Fellow Braskem America Darryl Lux Director of Sales, Technical Polymers Applications Omya Inc. Rudy Macdonel Sales Director Fresh Pak Corporation cam macisaac salesyle ThermoFisher Saurabh Maduskar Process Research Engineer ExxonMobil Chemicals Company Ken Malin Director - Global Sales & Marketing POLYVEL INC. Tracey Malone Senior Product Steward BASF Corporation John Mara Technical Manager Amfine Chemical Corporation Scott Marko Meetings and Events Manager SPE - Inspiring Plastics Professionals Mark Maroon CTO Maroon Group LLC Justin Marriott Product Manager, Key Filters Parkinson Technologies Inc Niall Marshall Technical Director Everspring Middle East Charles Martin President & General Manager Leistritz Extrusion Gerhard Martin President Kunststoff Prozess Technik GmbH Jill Martin Fellow Dow Brad Martin Strategic Account Manager Polymer Products Marcos Martinez Associate R&D Director Dow Liesl Massey Business Unit Manager- Plastic Additives 3V Inc. ANTONIO MATA REPRESENTANTE TÉCNICO INDUSTRIAS INDELPRO, SA DE CV Fumiaki Matsuoka Research & Development Sumitomo Chemical Company Robin McCann Sales Director Imerys Preston McDaniel Senior Research Engineer Dow Caleb McDonald Technology & Applications Consultant Mettler Toledo J. Stephen McEntire Sr. Technical Director Natural Minerals Michael McGinty Account Manager Nouryon Pat Mcgrenera Vice President Dorstener Wire Tech, Inc. Tom McHouell President Polymers Technology Center Jay McHugh President - Southwest Region Maroon Group LLC Kirk McNamara Chemicals Venture Manager Motiva Bo Mebane President/CEO PCC Chemax Inc Emilie Meddah Plastics Market Manager BL Performance Additives Clariant Corporation James Meeker Southeast Sales Manager Modern Dispersions Michelle Mejia Senior Analytical Chemist Dow Chemical Kevin Menard TA Product Specialist Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. Kevin Menard TA Product Specialist Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. Michelle Mercurio Sales Director Huber Engineered Materials Matthew Messina Sales Manager Rubber and Plastics Vanderbilt Chemicals David Meunier Fellow Dow William Michie Mr WJMJRENTERPRISES Tim Miller Technical Manager PMC Group Jason Miller CEO Cosine Additive inc. Jeannette Miller Sr. Commercial Manager Imerys Talc Mike Millington Global Business Director Croda Allen Miskowiec Global Business Manager PMC Group Barb Mitchell Marketing Director Townsend Solutions Paresh Mody Engineering Fellow Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. Sanaz Mohammadi R & D Polymer Scinetist Thiele Kaolin Company Glendimar Molero Graduate Research Assistant Polymer Technology Center - Texas A&M University Ruben Molina Lab Manager Opticolor Inc. Amaia Montoya R&D Director W. R. Grace Bradley Morris Commodities Manager Carlisle Construction Materials Matthew Morrison Sr. Specialist, Sustainability Strategy SABIC Rovier Mosquera Sales Engineer Coperion Bikramjit Mukherjee Associate Research Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Cliff Mure Product Technology Leader Dow Chemical Co./Univation Technologies Barry Murphy Sales and Marketing Manager 3M Canada Company J. P. Murphy Sales and Marketing Manager Norac Additives Thomas Mustard Principal Scientist Schrodinger Victor Mwangi Sales Engineer Coperion Aditi Nandy Graduate Student University of North Texas Paul Nardone NA Sales Manager, Chemical Division C.W. Brabender Instruments Inc Jason Neal Product Manager IMCD US Danielle Neu Associate Engineer Solvay Paul Neumann Application Engineering Team Leader 3M Greg Newcomb Business Development Leader - Dryers Gala Industries, Inc. -- The Maag Group Olivier Nguon CTO Sulis Polymers Shane Nicholson Director of Procurement Heritage Plastics Takahisa Nishibu staff Japan Polypropylene Corporation Hiroshi Nishimura General manager Kyowa Chemical Industry Co., LTD. Chris Nola Global Business Manager Vanderbilt Chemicals Scott Nolen Senior Technical Specialist, Polymers Sasol Scott Norton Vice President of Sales, Maroon Plastics Maroon Group LLC Roberto Nunez Director of Specialty Additives Baerlocher John O'Brien Associate Research Scientist Dow Chemical Company Paul O'Connell Dr DOW Chemical Justin O'Connor Director Technology INEOS O&P USA Ihab Odeh Sr. Manager, Sustainability Strategy SABIC Ido Offenbach Scientist,Polymer Processing & Specialties Evonik Corporation Kohei Ohori Mr. Kyowa Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. Andy Oishi Senior Sales Engineer KOBELCO COMPRESSORS AMERICA, INC. Sachiya Okamoto Researcher KOBE STEEL, LTD. Chuck Okoye Global Marketing Manager Kraton Corporation Charles Olsen Executive Director Savanture LLC Kayode Oluwabunmi Doctoral Candidtae University of North Texas Kevin O'Malley R&D Engineer Sekisui Voltek Kelly Ordonio Sales Manager, Specialties North America Kraton Polymers LLS Shinya Oshita Technical Service Engineer Kuraray America Inc. Jennifer O'Sullivan Product Manager BASF Rob Outwater Sales Director IMI Fabi S.p.A Terry Owen Product Development Engineer Printpack Inc. Jeffrey Owens Systems Coordinator Chemtrusion Inc. Orhan Ozturk Marketing Manager Sumitomo Chemical Company John Page Global Key Account Manager BASF Nagarjuna Palyam Senior Scientist Celanese Sangwoo Park Scientist Arkema Inc. Chul Park Professor University of Toronto Doh-Yeon Park Dr. SK Innovation Thomas Parsons Senior Sales Application Engineer Schenck Process Ron Pataky Sales Manager Imerys Talc William Patchen Research Fellow Pactiv Corporation Tammy Pate Account Manager Solvay Chetan Patel General Manager Technical Fine Organics Rajen Patel Fellow The Dow Chemical Company Nutan Patil Graduate Research Assistant Texas A&M University Eline Pattyn Sales Manager Fontijne Presses Mou Paul Dr. The Dow Chemical Company Jean-Roch Pauquet Head of Application Center EMEA BASF Martin Pavlik Director - New Business Development SI Group Clyde Payn CEO The Catalyst Group Hans Peckhaus Global Technical Director JohnPac Bruce Petersen Chief Procurement Consultant Mathelin Bay Associates LLC Rudolf Pfaendner Division director plastics Fraunhofer LBF Hoang Pham R&D Principal Avery Dennison Hieu-Dinh Phan Sales & Marketing Manager NJC America Inc Ed Phillips Technical Business Development Specialist E-BEAM Services Inc. Akash Pisharody PhD Student Baylor University Steve Pontiff Business Leader, Development Goodyear Chemical Robert Portnoy Managing Member Portnoy Technical Services, LLC Steve Post Business Development Manager Thermo Fisher Scientific Mick Potenza Sr. Account Manager Corbion John Poulakis Global Business Development Director Imerys Talc Bob Powell CEO Brightmark Energy Amrita Poyekar Senior Technical Manager Fine Organics Amrita Poyekar Senior Technical Manager Fine Organics Manuel Prieto Partner McKinsey & Company John Prindl Application Engineer 3M Company Daniel Pulipati PhD Candidate Baylor University Amit Puri Mr. Alok Masterbatches DINESH PUROHIT Vice President Business Development and Strategy Golch Group Justyn Pyz Process Engineer Coperion Corporation Chen Qian Additive Lead ExxonMobil Zengquan Qin Principal Material Scientist Firestone Building Products Ian Query Technical Specialist Baerlocher USA Johnny Quinonez Sales Zeppelin Systems USA Joseph Raborn Sales Manager BYK USA, Inc. Jeff Radcliffe Manager Marketing & Sales Natural Minerals Michael Rancich Global Innovation Director Valeron Strength Films Fariha Rashid Marketing Intelligence Analyst Kraton Polymers LLC David Read Regional Sales Manager IMI Fabi, LLC Grant Reddoch Technology Engineer Sasol North America jonathan reeds R&D Engineer W R Grace Mary Jane Reilly Sr. Account Manager Chemours Jay Reimers Research Associate ExxonMobil Chemicals Gary Rex Technical Sales JLS Chemical Co. Melinda Reyes Account Manager BASF Patricia Riant-Less Customer Service Faci US Distribution LLC Bodo Richter Dr. Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH Greg Rigby Vice President Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. Jason Riggs Director, Technical Services Heritage Plastics Maria Rinaldi Product Specialist C&A Daikin America Eddie Rios Sales Manager Faci US Distribution LLC Brian Rivers Engineering Fellow Sealed Air Corp Cryovac Division Brett Robb Applications Chemist TOTAL Cray Valley Megan Robertson Associate Professor University of Houston Daniel Rondelez Technology Advisor Circular Economy Solutions Borealis UK Ltd. Kimberly Rosillo Director of Finance Carlisle Construction Materials Michael Ross Marketing & Business Development Manager Americas Evonik Corp Jim Rounick CEO He-Ro Chemicals Ltd William Rowlands Chief Scientist Licella Paloma Ruiz Mate Director General Cimbar Performance Minerals Mexico Damilola Runsewe Mr Texas State University Nino Ruocco Senior Product Development Engineer ExxonMobil Chemical Company Timothy Russell Student Baylor University Glen Russell Manager Materials Engineering Zurn Industries David Russell Sales Manager Byk, USA Miguel Salamanca Technical Account Manager IMCD Sari-Beth Samuels New Business Development Director Solvay Polymer Additives Rómulo San Martin Product Engineer Indelpro Jason Sanchez Business Director Valtris Specialty Chemicals Brent Sanders Account Mgr Cytec Industries Deidre Sandrock Market Manager Milliken and Company Estibaliz Santamaria Dr NJC America Inc Dave Santoleri Sales & Marketing Consultant NJC America Inc Mahesh Sawant Research Engineer Dow Inc. Joe Schebek Sales SRC Worldwide, Inc. Henry Schirmer CEO BBS Corporation Tara Schlomka Customer Events Specialist 3M Sarah Schneider Senior Pricing Specialist S&P Global Platts Frederik Schonewille Sales Manager/North America J-Tec Material Handling David Seiler Americas Business Manager Arkema Inc Kazuhide Sekiyama Researcher Kobelco John Sellers North American Business Manager Nouryon Surface Chemistry Jeffrey Sevens Sr. VP Sales and Marketing 3V Inc. Khadar Basha Shaik Mr. University of Houston David Sharp Undergraduate Research Assistant Texas State University Leslie Shawver Sales Manager W.R. Grace & Co- Conn. Bill Sheard Process Engineer Flint Hills Resources Minjie Shen Graduate Student University of Houston Lilli Sherman Senior Editor Plastics Technology Robert Sherman Technical Director Baerlocher Keigo Shimura Sr. R&D Engineer Sekisui Voltek BIll Shireman President and CEO Future 500 Maksim Shivokhin Senior Research Engineer ExxonMobil Jeff Shorter CEO Tubi Brianna Shoulak Materials Team Leader Amcor Jingtao Shuang PhD student Baylor University Hartmut Siebert Technical Marketing Manager Packaging Clariant John Sigler Scientist BASF Steven Slome Mr. Nexant Dave Smith Purchasing Manager Champion Polymer Recycling Antoinette Smith Markets editor ICIS Louis Snyders Global Marketing Director Polymers Sasol João Soares Professor University Of Alberta Robert Somich Engineer Braskem America Yue Song Graduate Student Texas A&M University Susan Sorbo Business Development Mgr Arkema Inc Keith Sorrell Marketing Communications Manager Huber Engineered Materials Thomas Spagnoli Reasearch Associate Wood Mackenzie Joe Spano Key Accounts Advisor - Polymers Imerys Talc N. America Mark Speer Regional Sales Manager Huber Engineered Materials Nick Speller Key Account Manager Croda, Inc. Nathan Spencer Sales Manager Imerys Shelby Stavretis Account Manager Schrödinger Thomas Steele Account Manager Solvay Yuliya Streen Global Marketing Manager Kraton Polymers LLC Hung-Jue Sue Professor Texas A&M University Luyi Sun Professor University of Connecticut Dinesh Sundaravadivelu Devarajan Graduate Student Texas Tech University Kapil Surve PhD student University of Houston Lisa Swain Global Market Director Corbion Vershima Tachia Research Scientist Ingenia Polymers Atsushi Takahara Professor Kyushu University Miori Takizawa Staff Japan Polypropylene Corporation LiMin Tau Director Phillips 66 Jack Teat President Dover Chemical Corporation David Temples Technical Service Manager Huber Engineered Materials Greg Terchick Vice President Sales US & Canada, Sales & Marketing Management Omya Inc. Patrick Thomas President PR Thomas Technologies, LLC Laura Thompson Sustainability Consultant 4 Minutes, LLC Qian Tian Research Assistant Texas Tech University Chemical Engineering Dpt. Tony Tikuisis Additives Technology Team Leader Nova Chemicals Corp. Therese Tokles US Operations Manager 3M Florencio Topete Sr. Business Director SI Group Ken Topping Regional Sales Manager Dover Chemical Corporation Rodrigo Torres COLLIN Lab & Pilot Solutions, Inc. Thi Tran Graduate Student University of Houston Paul Trimble Senior Sales Director SI Group Chia-Ying Tsai graduate student Texas A&M university Yota Tsuneizumi Technical Service Engineer Adeka Coropration Freddie Tucker Regional Sales Manager Gala Industries, Inc. -- The Maag Group Honn Tudor Vice President Nexant Uday Turaga CEO ADI Chemical Market Resources Costas Tzoganakis Professor University Of Waterloo Hidetoshi Umebayashi Catalyst Sales Manager Toho Titanium America Co.,Ltd. Pavan Valavala Research Scientist Dow Inc. G.J. Vancso Professor SULIS Polymers Juhi Varma News Reporter ICIS Andres Vaska Director Sales Americas BASF Adriana Velasquez Sr. Technical Service Engineer Shell Chemical LP Sumeet Verma Sr. General Manager - Sales & Marketing Golcha Talc Tom Vermeulen Global Key Account Manager BASF Adrian Villarreal Sales Manager Corporacion Sierra Madre SA de CV James Vizzini Business Quality Manager Specialty Catalysts W. R. Grace & Co John Wagner Process Engineer Ensinger Special Polymers, Inc John Wagner President Crescent Associates Inc. Leonard Walp Dir. Business Development Norac Additives Thomas Walsh President Walsh Consulting Services, Inc. Hao Wang Principal Scientist Firestone Building Products Chenxu Wang Ph.D student Texas A&M University Lance Wang Technology Leader Johns Manville Jun Wang Lead Scientist SABIC Jian Wang Sr. TS&D Scientist The Dow Chemical Company Heli Wang Lead Scientist SABIC Technology Center Bill Ward Vice President - Southwest Region Maroon Group LLC Carl Watkins Sr. Product Development Engineer - Thermoplastics Firestone Building Products Co Judy Webb Technical Services Manager - Americas Sasol North America Russell Webb Technical Services Manager, Packaging Omya Inc. Sarah Weisfeld Business Development EarthX Dan Weiss VP Principal Development Azelis Americas Colin Wells Account Manager NFM Welding Engineers, Inc. Brent West Sales Associate Davis-Standard, LLC Jelle Westra CEO Evans Chemetics Darrell Williams VP Commercial Advanced Composites Alexander Williamson Principal Research Scientist Dow KATE WILLIS AREA BUSINESS MANAGER EMERY OLEOCHEMICALS Debra Wilson Material Science Director, CPNA Berry Global Gerhardt Wissler Consultant 21St Century Polymers Tsui-Yin Wong Quality Engineer Inteplast Group Donald Woodall Mr. INEOS O&P USA Hong-Mao Wu Ph.D Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Texas A&M University Roman Wypart Senior Process Engineer ORBIS Corporation Jay Xu VP Technology Valtris Specialty Chemicals Alex Xue Mr. Trex Company, Inc. Charlie Yacomeni Vice President Global Sales PMC Group Takayoshi Yamada Researcher Kuraray Co., Ltd. Yuzhen Yang Principal Scientist Firestone Building Products Peng Ye Global Sales Support Manager Farrel Jiong Yu Sr. Manager - New Business Development SI Group Youlu Yu Team Leader, Polymer Characterization Chevron Phillips Chemical Xianghua Yu Lead Scientist SABIC Joshua Yuan Professor and Chair for Synthetic Biology and Renewable Products Texas A&M University John Yun Manager - New Business Development SI Group Hayder Zahalka Research Fellow, Global Technology Leader SI Group Yongchao Zeng Senior Research Specialist Dow Chemical Company Vivian Zhang Thermoplastics R&D Manager Carlisle Construction Materials Xiao Zhao PhD Candidate (Research Assistant) Texas Tech University Shengfu Zhao R&D Engineering Specialist Valéron Strength Films Mosha Zhao Senior Engineer ExxonMobil Chemical Company Maarten Zuiderduin Global Key Account Manager BASF Matthew Zwick Sales Tarquin Polymers & Colors Kumar President S Polymers