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Basem Sarandah Mr. Sarandah has over 24 years of experience in managing consulting and technology development organizations. Prior to taking the leadership role at Nexant in 2000, Mr. Sarandah was a principal vice president of Bechtel Group, Inc. and general manager of Bechtel's Technology and Consulting (BTeC) unit and Bechtel Software, Inc (BSI). During his tenure, BTeC emerged as a leading provider of technology commercialization and consulting services, and BSI became a leading developer of engineering and work-process software products. Earlier, Mr. Sarandah was vice president and manager of business development for Bechtel's Research and Development operation, where he was responsible for commercializing advanced energy, process, applied physics, and engineering and construction technologies. Mr. Sarandah started his career as a strategy analyst at the Institute of Asian Pacific Studies and as a management consultant with Arthur D. Little in San Francisco. He has an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University and an M.A. in economics and B.S. in physics from the University of San Francisco. |
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David Bauer Mr. Bauer has more than 17 years of experience in accounting-related positions of increasing responsibility. He serves as Nexant's controller and vice president of finance, managing all of the company's finance and accounting functions, including consolidation of subsidiary entities, audit management, and financial reporting to senior management. Prior to joining Nexant, he was an implementation consultant for Deltek, where he assisted many clients (including Nexant) with the implementation of accounting systems. After graduating from Pacific Lutheran University with a Bachelor of Business Administration (concentration in accounting), he worked for two years as an auditor for the accounting firm of Benson & McLaughlin. |
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Christine Harper Ms. Harper has 28 years of experience in all aspects of human resources management. She is responsible for Nexant's personnel policy development and implementation; benefits administration, including ERISA compliance; EEO and affirmative action planning; and professional recruiting and employee training. During her career, she has worked in the technical consulting, engineering and construction, and financial services industries. Her extensive background in several key areas of human resources management includes benefits, staffing, operations, and employee relations. Before joining Nexant, Ms. Harper was with Bechtel Corporation where, over an 8-year span, she was a human resources manager for employee relations, senior staffing recruiter, and senior benefits consultant. |
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Deborah Forhan Rimmler Ms. Rimmler is Nexant's general counsel, responsible for all of the company's contracts and legal services. She began her tenure with Nexant as a consultant for World Bank and USAID-funded energy efficiency projects in Southeastern Europe before joining Nexant's in-house legal team. She previously worked as a legal and management consultant to the France Growth Fund, a closed-end mutual fund listed on the New York Stock Exchange. She began her career as an attorney in the General Counsel's office of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) in Washington, D.C. While there, she became the director of business development for the Caspian Finance Center, a regional project office located in Ankara, Turkey combining the efforts of USTDA, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Ms. Rimmler has an LL.M. in international and comparative law from Georgetown University, a J.D. from Southwestern University, and a B.A. in political science from Boston College. |
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Don Bari Mr. Bari is responsible for managing Nexant's global oil and gas practice and has over 29 years of technical and management experience in the chemical and petrochemical industries. He came to Nexant from the former Chem Systems, which Nexant acquired from IBM in 2001. Before joining Nexant, he spent 19 years with Chem Systems as a global consultant managing numerous technical, economic, commercial, and financial engagements associated with polymer, petrochemical, and chemical products. |
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Bruce Burke Mr. Burke leads energy-related consulting assignments in North America, South America, and Asia, focusing on natural gas utilization, petroleum refinery planning and strategic analysis, refining/petrochemical interface optimization, project feasibility and financing, base oils/lubricants, and market and profitability forecasting. An experienced international project manager, he has conducted studies for a range of developed and developing countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Venezuela, the United States, and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Chem Systems in 1980 (acquired by Nexant in 2001), Mr. Burke worked for Gulf Oil, gaining practical experience in many aspects of refinery operations, including process evaluation, product blending and shipping, plant operations, and capital budgeting. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Phil Hunt Mr. Hunt heads Nexant's global downstream oil consulting practice (supply logistics, refining, distribution and retail), with responsibility for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. For more than 23 years, he has worked and traveled extensively in over 60 countries, and provided advisory services for over $20 billion of projects on behalf of lenders/sponsors such as QP/Sasol (Qatar), Sohar Refining Company (Oman), Reliance (India), Rayong (Thailand), NGL-4 (Qatar), Slovnaft (Slovakia), Thailube (Thailand), and Isab (Italy). |
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Andrew Spiers Dr. Spiers heads Nexant's global chemical industry practice, covering all proprietary services to the petrochemicals, polymers, gas-based chemicals, and fertilizers sector. He has over 25 years of industry experience and has consulted with major corporations globally, providing advisory services to companies such as BASF, SABIC and PTT. He has also managed the petrochemical master plans for countries such as Egypt, Thailand, and Kazakhstan. |
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Sarah Yarger Kienzle Ms. Kienzle has over 25 years of experience managing strategy and operations consulting services for the chemicals and petrochemicals sector. Prior to joining Nexant, she was managing director of The SKY Group, LLC, a boutique consultancy focused on creating rapid growth in both newly launched and mature business enterprises. Her previous operating experience includes serving as vice president of corporate development at Olin Corporation (NYSE:OLN), where she was the architect of the portfolio strategy leading to the spinoff of Arch Chemicals (NYSE:ARJ). She subsequently served as a senior executive at Arch. Her additional consulting experience includes serving as a corporate director of operations consulting for PRTM, where she was also on the board of the firm's venture capital fund, Atlantic Ventures. Ms. Kienzle holds a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Brown University and an M.B.A. from New York University. |
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John King Mr. King heads Nexant's management consulting business in Asia. For more than 20 years, he has worked closely with petrochemical, gas, and oil industry executives on a variety of engagements involving key strategic and business decision-making initiatives in the areas of strategy, operations, and organization. He has worked with clients across many geographies, having lived and worked in the U.S. and Europe, as well as Asia, where has been based for the past 11 years. Mr. King originally joined Chem Systems (later acquired by Nexant) after completing his M.B.A. at the London Business School (LBS). He received a B.S. in chemical engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of Missouri and worked with Ethyl Corporation in the U.S. as a process and project engineer before enrolling in LBS. |
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Michael Kratochwill Mr. Kratochwill has 33 years of petroleum and chemical industry experience in finance and M&A, due diligence analysis, and company/plant valuations. He has managed valuation projects for U.S. chemical and petrochemical companies, refineries, and fertilizer plants, and liquidation valuations for chemical businesses. He has also performed due diligence for chemical company acquisitions, and provided expert witness/testimony services on protection and values of collateral assets, addressing product and industry segments such as styrene, acrylonitrile, acetic acid, and pulp chemicals. |
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Andrew Swanson Dr. Swanson has performed a wide range of consulting assignments, including strategic planning, competitive analysis, and market and commercial analyses for a diverse client base. The geographic focus of major projects has been varied and includes the ASEAN and North Asian countries. Before joining Nexant, Dr. Swanson was with the Chem Systems organization. Previously, he served as general manager, Olefins of ICI (now Orica) Australia. He is a graduate of Melbourne University with an M.S. and earned a doctorate in chemistry from Oxford University. | |||||
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James Bradford Dr. Bradford has more than 21 years of experience in system metering and monitoring; system modeling and simulation; development, and the use and evaluation of engineering algorithms and techniques. He provides primary client contact, technical direction, project management and oversight for numerous projects. He also directs all North American building engineering and technology projects and initiatives, and manages Nexant's Boulder, CO office and the Energy Delivery and Management practice in the Houston, TX and White Plains, NY offices. |
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Terry Fry Mr. Fry directs energy efficiency program services and strategic consulting studies in North America, where he oversees hundreds of energy performance analyses each year. He has been an active proponent of economically efficient energy production and use for more than 25 years, and has served as advisor on energy industry restructuring policies and regulations that encourage energy efficiency, focusing on economics of environmentally friendly technologies, demand-side management, and private sector services. In addition to his technical knowledge concerning the interplay between industry and regulation, Mr. Fry is also an accomplished industry educator and writer, having conducted numerous energy efficiency seminars, lectured at universities in China, Britain, and the U.S., and designed and delivered many training programs. He has also led and participated in numerous assignments on end-use energy efficiency, market development, institutional assessment, regulatory development, and efficient power production in countries around the world, including China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Korea, Macau, Macedonia, Mexico, the Philippines, and Thailand, as well as for investor-owned utilities in North America. His energy-related expertise includes economic and policy analysis; program planning, design, and development; and program management and evaluation. Mr. Fry holds an M.Phil in economics and politics of development from Cambridge University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. |
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Paul R. MacGregor Dr. MacGregor leads Nexant's clean energy solutions initiative, responsible for developing and delivering offerings to verify and monetize both renewable energy and energy efficiency transactions. He has nearly 20 years of experience in leading new market and technology developments as well as managing corporate operations in the areas of clean energy markets, energy trading and risk man-agement, and electric power systems. Dr. MacGregor is the co-founder of Neuwing Energy Ventures LLC, where he developed innovative approaches to securing and delivering long-term supplies of clean energy to major utilities and energy-users. He is credited with having spearheaded development of the first commercial energy efficiency certificate (EEC) program in the United States, helping to make Neuwing the nation’s leading EEC verifier and marketer. Prior to Neuwing, he founded and served as president and CEO of Tiburon Energy Systems (originally eTiburon), a firm specializing in the aggregation of distributed generation and curtailable load through remote control for real-time trading of peak energy blocks. Before founding Tiburon, he was executive vice oresident of Altra Energy Technologies, one of the first and leading providers of online energy trading exchanges and risk management software. Dr. MacGregor is the author of numerous technical papers in the areas of mathematical modeling and optimization of energy systems. He holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. in technology and science policy—all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
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Chris Schroeder Mr. Schroeder is based in Nexant's Boulder, CO office. He has over 11 years of experience in the U.S. energy-efficiency market and in implementing demand-side management (DSM) programs. His experience includes all facets of program delivery in the residential, commercial, and industrial market sectors, including market potential assessment, program design and implementation, mass marketing and trade ally coordination, incentive processing, program tracking, and measurement and verification. He also routinely provides regulatory assistance to utilities in support of their energy efficiency initiatives. Mr. Schroeder received his M.S. degree in building systems from the University of Colorado at Boulder and B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from Willamette University. |
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SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS Ongun Alsaç Dr. Alsaç has over 35 years of experience in power industry computer applications. He leads the Energy Solutions division, responsible for developing and implementing power system network applications and advanced power analytics. He is the co-founder and CEO of the former PCA Corporation acquired by Nexant in 2000. After teaching at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey, he became a consultant to the EMS applications group at CEPEL, the Brazilian Electric Power Research Institute. Dr. Alsaç originated key methods and led software development in the areas of power flow, contingency analysis, security-constrained optimal power flow, state and status estimation, congestion management and financial transmission rights auction and allocation calculation. He has served on all IEEE Power Industry Computer Applications technical committees between 1989 and 1999, and in 1995, was elected an IEEE Fellow for his "contributions to efficient power flow analysis methods for large-scale power networks." He holds a Ph.D. in electric power engineering from the University of Manchester (UMIST) and a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey). Joseph M. Bright Mr. Bright has over 25 years of electric power industry software and consulting experience. His power industry experience includes research, software development, product testing, customer training and support, consulting, development of energy management systems, technical leadership and engineering support of systems planning and operations. Mr. Bright has researched and developed optimal power flow methods for system planning, operation and control, market operations and analysis, including bid-based dispatch, congestion management and TCC/FTR auctions. He has also worked on locational marginal pricing, fast security analysis, power flow external modeling for use with state estimation and other advanced control center applications, power flow, and sparse matrix methods. He received an M.S. and B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Thierry Godart Dr. Godart has over 20 years of experience in engineering management, consultative selling, business development, and strategic marketing. He is responsible for global business development, sales, and marketing of our advanced software tools, systems, and related consulting services for the electric power industry. He joined Nexant from AREVA T&D Automation, where he was worldwide systems marketing director. Previously, Dr. Godart served as director of energy information systems for ABB and as consulting engineer for GE Power Systems. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA and is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, France. Edwin Liu Dr. Liu has 23 years of industrial and academic experience in R&D, implementation, and consulting for power system computer applications. During the course of his career, he has worked with universities, consulting firms, software vendors, and electric utilities. Dr. Liu has focused on bringing state-of-the-art information technology to power system society, including Internet applications. His domain knowledge, especially in the new deregulated energy industry, ranges from electric distribution, transmission networks, pricing, transfer capability, congestion management, to power quality and distribution automation. He is an experienced project manager and an expert in analytical algorithm development. He has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California (Berkeley) and a B.S. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and is the Chairman of the IEEE Computing and Analytical Methods Subcommittee. He has published numerous technical journal papers and was a technical advisor to National Science Council of Taiwan. Jeffrey Plotkin Jeffrey Plotkin directs the Nexant ChemSystems Process Evaluation/Research Planning (PERP) program. Managing this activity often involves working closely with technology developers, including operating companies and engineering contractors. Jeff's interests are in all phases of process research and development with special emphasis on gas to chemicals, selective oxidations, alkane activation and biocatalyzed routes to chemicals. Jeff is co-editor of the American Chemical Society's Patent Watch website at Chemistry.org, co-author of "Industrial Organic Chemistry" (Wiley Interscience), and is a frequent contributor of technology-oriented articles to European Chemical News (ECN). Jeff holds more than thirty U.S. patents and is author of 25 publications in peer reviewed academic journals. Jeff received his Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, his B.S. from the State University of N.Y. at Oneonta, an Executive M.B.A. from Pace University, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at The Ohio State University. Richard Sleep Mr. Sleep has over a quarter-century of experience in the olefins business, from engineering and production to product management, trading, and consulting. He manages Nexant's ChemSystems® practice and leads the global team responsible for developing, operating, and marketing Nexant's ChemSystems Online® suite of internet-based planning tools for the petrochemical industry. He also manages and markets the ChemSystems-branded Petroleum and Petrochemical Economics (PPE) reports program. Bernard Speckman Mr. Speckman is a senior electric production, systems, and power pooling expert, with over 33 years of experience in engineering, operations, and contracting for electric power production, transmission, and systems control and optimization. He has been responsible for a number of major generation, transmission, control, and contract restructuring initiatives, and has been an active participant in electric industry restructuring. As an independent consultant, he advised clients in California, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada on electric industry restructuring issues. He also provided market design and stakeholder support for eight utilities involved in creating the regional transmission organization-RTO West-that will encompass seven western states and two Canadian provinces. Narashimham Vempati Dr. Vempati has over 22 years of electric power industry experience, including research and development, software product testing, customer training and support. He has designed and developed analytical techniques and software principally related to sparse matrix techniques, generalized state-status estimation, and network topology estimation. He has also led and participated in software development teams in the disciplines of fault level analysis, and financial transmission rights (FTR) allocation/auction calculations and comprehensive web-based systems designed to support FTR markets. Previously, with Power Computer Applications and Empros Systems International, Dr. Vempati has participated in research and development of power system applications during his career. He received a Ph.D. and M.S. in electric power engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, (Madras, India). Dr. Vempati is co-recipient of the 1993 W.R.G. Baker Prize for his work on orthogonal transformations in state estimation. This is the prize awarded for the best technical paper of the year, among all papers published by all IEEE societies. Doug Welsh Mr. Welsh is responsible for developing and managing consulting services related to Nexant's advanced software tools. He joined Nexant from the GE Energy Consulting Group where he was manager of software products, responsible for production simulation, generation reliability, powerflow, and dynamic simulation applications. Prior to GE, he was a software product manager and analytical engineer for Power Technologies, Inc. Mr. Welsh holds an M.B.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University. |
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Hugh McDermott Mr. McDermott directs Nexant's electric power and international energy consulting practice. He has over 20 years of experience leading energy-related technical and management consulting projects and programs around the world. Most recently, he served as chief of party for the USAID-sponsored South Asia Regional Initiative in Energy (SARI/Energy). Previously, he was the resident advisor for private power development for K&M Engineering & Consulting in New Delhi, and a senior manager for the international consulting firm of Hagler, Bailly, Inc. Tan-Ping Chen Dr. Chen has over 28 years of experience in development, engineering/construction, technoeconomic feasibility analysis, gas turbine/combined cycles, market assessment, and due diligence for various technologies, including coal gasification, biomass conversion processes, solid/liquid waste treatment, emission control, fuel cells, microturbines, and natural gas conversion and utilization. He is currently responsible for clean energy technology development, demonstration, and consulting for power generation and transportation applications. Dr. Chen recently managed a joint venture business opportunity assessment for a major oil company investing in a fuel cell development company. The scope included an extensive market assessment, competitor analysis, verification of product performance and cost estimate, investment cash flow/profitability analysis, and critique of the JV's staffing plan, development schedule, market projection, and commercialization strategy and partners. Wayne Mikutowicz Mr. Mikutowicz has more than 25 years of experience in energy planning, economic and marketing analyses, strategic planning, project development financing, restructuring, and privatization. Mr. Mikutowicz has worldwide experience in energy sector restructuring, unbundling, commercialization and privatization. Much of his extensive experience in these institution-building activities has come in countries with dynamic economic and political environments. He also has worked on assignments designed to encourage privatization and private power and gas development, and on initiatives dealing with the issues and opportunities associated with transnational gas development. He has directed and conducted numerous assignments related to corporate strategy and organizational development, energy sector restructuring and privatization, reserve valuation, energy pricing and tariffs, energy planning and policy assessments for both the private and public sectors. Richard Smith Mr. Smith has over 25 years of global experience in energy efficiency, utilization, and conservation. He recently served as chief of party for the USAID-sponsored South Asia Regional Initiative in Energy (SARI/Energy), responsible for developing and administering this multi-year, multimillion-dollar technical assistance project in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Maldives. For the past 12 years, he has designed, managed, and implemented energy management programs for clients in the government, commercial, and industrial sectors in Asia, South America, and Africa. Prior to that, he was a principal of Hagler Bailly Consulting, Inc., responsible for management and technical advisory services on numerous USAID projects, as well as energy audits and energy management projects for various clients. |
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