Isabelle Muller was appointed Secretary General of EUROPIA in June 2007, having been Deputy Secretary General in charge of Energy Policy and Climate Change issues since July 2006. Having graduated from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1978 and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1983, and earned a Master's Degree in Economics from Cornell University(USA) in 1981, Isabelle had an extensive international career within Total in the downstream oil industry, where she held numerous positions. Having joined the department of Renewable Energies in 1981,she moved into refining engineering and then into refinery operations at the Feyzin Refinery (France), firstly as Production Manager of the Steam-Cracking unit (1986-1989) and then as Head of Refinery Production Planning (1990-1992). As of 1992, Isabelle contributed in former Eastern Germany to the acquisition of Minol service stations network and Leuna refinery,and was appointed Supply Manager of Elf Oil Deutschland (Berlin) in charge of crude and refined products supply and Refinery operations optimisation (1992-1994). Back to France in 1995 she joined the Downstream Strategy Division as Economic Studies Manager, before becoming Research Programs Manager in the Division for Research, Technology and Environment in 1998. In 2000, Isabelle became Senior Manager in the Refining and Marketing Strategy Division in charge of Refining and Logistics. In June 2001, she was appointed General Manager of the Solaize Research Centre, one of the three research centres of TOTAL Refining and Marketing Division, in charge of products development (fuels, lubricants and bitumen) and environment programs.
Prior to the current position he had a global responsibility for stakeholder relations and marketing activities at Neste Oil's Renewable Fuels Division. He has also been accountable for "New Ventures and Business Operations" unit covering business development, feedstock sourcing and sales of NExBTL renewable diesel. He has over 27 years experience from oil industry in various international positions in Finland and other countries in EU.
Marcus Tennant has been with Yokogawa Corporation since December 2008 as a Principal Systems Architect. Prior to Yokogawa, Marcus was employed at Rockwell Automation for 10 years as a Product Manager and Application Engineer. Prior to that, he was with Morton International for 10 years holding various positions in Process Development, Project Engineering, and Q.A. and with Jones-Blair Company for 5 years as an R&D Chemist and Process Engineer.
Marcus has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and an M.S. in Operations and Technology Management from the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a member of AIChE since 1984 and is also a member of ACS and WBF-the organization for production technology.
Maurice Wilkins is vice president of Yokogawa's Global Strategic Technology Marketing Center (USMK), which is based in Dallas, Texas and is part of Yokogawa's Tokyo based Industrial Au-tomation Marketing Center. USMK works with standards bodies, industry associations, Yokogawa's customers and regional HQ's to identify industry trends and develop innovative solutions for global issues by leveraging advanced technology and talent.
USMK started the Modular Procedural Automation initiative inside Yokogawa and Maurice was the leader of the team that proposed the ISA106 standard for Procedural Automation in the Con-tinuous Process Industries to the ISA Standards and Practices Board. He is now heading up a new initiative inside Yokogawa on Human Centric Operations.
Maurice has 30 years experience in human factors, batch solutions, procedural operations, ad-vanced process control, benchmarking analysis and the chemicals and refining industries. He was inducted into the Process Automation Hall of Fame in 2011 and was Chairman of WBF – the Organization for Production Technologies from 2004-9. In addition to Yokogawa he has worked for Esso Chemical, Honeywell, KBC Process Automation, The ARC Advisory Group, LyondellBa-sell Industries and Breakthrough Process Automation.
Marcos Matsufugi is a Market Manager at Alfa Laval, responsible for heat exchangers business and applications development for refineries. Based at the central office in Paris his geographical responsibilities include Europe, Russia and Brazil. He has over 15 years experience in the refining market, including 9 years with Alfa Laval. Marcos is postgraduate in marketing and holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry in chemistry from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Yokogawa Europe and Africa
As Business Development Manager, Eric Jan Kwekkeboom manages European- and African market development for Yokogawa in oil and gas downstream, especially with refinery and petrochemical industry segments.
He holds bachelor degrees in process engineering and chemical engineering and graduated in business to business marketing.
Eric Jan has more than twenty years experience in several oil and gas segments and in various disciplines, starting in 1988 as a specialist for process equipment, moved on to process instrumentation and process analyzers in 1990 and was appointed Industry Marketing Director for process automation solutions in 1999.
Appointed to his present position, he develops strategies and plans for all Yokogawa products, solutions and services related to the oil and gas downstream industries. Based in Yokogawa Europe and Africa Headquarters in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, together with his team, he provides industry solution support to the company's sales offices and distributors in Europe and Africa.
Mike Watson, CEO of Tube Tech International, is an entrepreneurial, serial inventor with a Master DiplEng and a prolific background in R&D. Holding multiple patents his focus has always been in achieving the impossible, where others have tried and failed. Over the past 27 years this focus has led to a stream of multi million pound research programmes to solve impossible cleaning and inspection problems within the downstream and upstream industry. Mike formed Tube Tech International www.tubetech.com in 1984. The company is recognised by many oil majors as a world leader in the field of true "Specialist Industrial Cleaning". Their "niche" is cleaning heat transfer and process plant that others cannot, or where replacement was the only alternative.
Mr. SUN Junnan joined SINOPEC in 2008, is now nominated as the representative of Europe Office of SINOPEC Technology. Mr. SUN Junnan has participated in several refining and petrochemical integration projects for the past several years, including Fujian Refinery and Petrochemical Integration Project, Sino-Kuwait Guangdong Refinery & Chemical Integration Project, etc.
Mr. SUN Junnan is also responsible for the refining & petrochemical technology development and licensing in SINOPEC.
Since 2008 General Manager Environmental Catalyst and Technology, Haldor Topsøe A/S. 2005 Sales Manager DeNOx Catalyst and Technology, Haldor Topsøe A/S.Joined Haldor Topsoe, Inc as DeNOx Technology Manager in 1999.
From 1991 to 1999 Chemical Engineer at Avedore Power Station first IFV-Energy then SK-Energy in the end E2 (a Danish Utility now DONG). Had the responsibility for DeNOx & FGD, laboratory and water treatment facilities.
Until 1991 Process Engineer at Kuwait Petroleums Refinery in Denmark.
Peter has 20+ years experience with DeNOx and FGD systems designed the first DeNOx unit during the Master works in 1988.
Holds an B.S. in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Aarhus and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark.
