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  Asian Downstream Summit 2017 advisory board comprised of the following members:
  Datuk Kamarudin Zakaria, Head of Group Technical Solution
  Datuk Kamarudin Zakaria holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Surrey University. He joined PETRONAS in 1984 and is a Fellow of IchemE. Apart from that, he attended SMDP at Wharton, USA and completed the Management Programme at IMD, Switzerland. He has served in senior managerial roles in PETRONAS Petrochemical Business, PETRONAS Penapisan (Melaka) Sdn Bhd and PETRONAS Penapisan (Terengganu) Sdn Bhd where he was appointed Vice President, Group Health Safety Environment, Operational Excellence
  Martin Hawkins, COO
  Martin Hawkins serves as Chief Operating Officer of HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited. Mr. Hawkins has responsibility for the operation of all of HMEL's assets from the crude receipt at the SPM through production of products at the Bathinda Refinery. He has over 32 years of oil refining experience in operations, maintenance, process engineering, major projects, planning, and economic and price forecasting. His accomplishments include breakthroughs in safety, major projects, process improvements and optimization, and cost control. He has worked at six refineries and two corporate offices in the USA. Mr. Hawkins earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.
  Gerard de Nazelle, Head of Technology
  Dr. Gerard de Nazelle joined Reliance in September 2014, after four years in India as entrepreneur, running a (chemical) polyester recycling business and plant in Nashik (Polygenta Technologies). Before joining Polygenta he served as the first Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), to contribute to the improvement of Europe's innovation performances.
  He joined Shell in 1990 and was Global Manager Innovation & Research, responsible for the development of new technology options and clean energy futures until he joined the EIT. In 1994, he moved to Japan, then to Singapore, where he participated in the construction and start-up of two large petrochemical projects (1996 - 2003). He held the position of Technology Manager of Shell Seraya (Singapore), before becoming Chief Technologist of the multi-billion CNOOC-Shell project in China (2004-2007). He holds a MSc degree (Chem.Eng) from ENSIC (France) and a PhD (Physics) from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).
  Selva Guru, Principal Engineer
  KT Khong, Head of Production
  KT served as the Non-Executive Director in Ethylene Glycol Singapore (Pte Ltd) from Apr 2008 to Feb 2011. He also served in 2 public listed companies as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director at Shell Refining Company (Federation of Malaya) Berhad since Mar, 2011 to Sep 2014 and Pakistan Refinery Limited (Karachi, Pakistan) from Feb 2008 to 2010.
  He has Bachelor Degree in Chemical Engineering and Master Degree in Material Science & Engineering both from National University Singapore. Prior to joining Shell, he worked in DuPont Singapore for 14 years, during which he performed various roles in technology, engineering and operations. Between 2004 and 2006, he has also performed a role in managing a joint venture operation between DuPont and Asahi Kasei in China as the Deputy General Manager. He is a qualified Six Sigma black belt and familiar with lean practices.
  He is now the Head of Production for Shell Chemical Complexes in Jurong Island.
  Mai Tuan Dat, Production Manager
  Manoj Singh, Reliability Specialist
  Manoj is currently based in Singapore, working as a Reliability Specialist for Chevron. His role is to provide Reliability linked technical support to Chevron's Joint Venture refineries in the Asia Pacific.
  He is a Mechanical engineering graduate with a Masters in Industrial Metallurgy from I.I.T. Delhi & Madras respectively. He has over 25 years of cumulative experience in the fields of Reliability, Maintenance, Engineering, Project Management & Process Safety. He has previously worked for Reliance in India, Singapore Aromatics (an erstwhile Exxon/Amoco JV), Celanese Singapore , Huntsman & BP (the last two in Regional roles based in Singapore).
  Abdullah Al Dhafer, Operational Excellence Coordinator, Riyadh Refinery
  An experienced employee with over twenty five years of experience in maintenance, mechanical, quality, maintenance and planning field. Holding Master of Business Administration degree in Performance Measurement with distinction from Strathclyde university and currently perusing a DBA at Grenoble Management School. Having served as scheduler, planner and planning supervisor, forman and compliance coordinator, worked with gas plant, producing, and mechanical shops and refining. Certified in constructing and analyzing planning & scheduling from marshal institute, USA. Certified as Lean Six sigma. planning & scheduling professional, OE assessor and NLP certified.
  Vishal Mehta, Head of Digital Strategy, Architecture and Technology
  Vishal heads the Digital Strategy, Architecture and technology portfolio at Reliance Industries. His role is to transform traditional model into a digital business technology platform which is futuristic and leverages adoption of new generation technologies like Analytics, IoT, mobility, cloud etc.
  Prior to Reliance, he worked at KBR, where he was the heading business for KBR Technology for Asia Pacific, Middle east, Africa, CIS and Russia region. He was esponsible for P&L. strategy, team building, global partnerships, sales and operations. He was also in charge of setting up the Digital Solutions, Automation and Process Technology business unit for KBR in India and also the global Chief Technology Advisor for large Operations Management Systems Projects.
  Before getting into consulting he worked for the Energy business of Reliance Industries, in setting up the largest Oil refinery, Port and facilities in the world, Business management, MIS, Planning and Scheduling.
  Steven McMurray, Senior Technical Advisor
  Steven A. McMurray is Senior Technical Advisor for PTT Global Chemical Public Company Ltd. He has been with PTT GC for 11 years advising in aromatics with an ever-expanding role into refining, olefins, downstream petrochemicals and recently Bio-based petrochemicals. Prior to joining PTTGC Steve worked for UOP LLC for 17 years on field operating services starting up and troubleshooting numerous grass roots facilities across the entire spectrum of technologies with a heavy background in CCR/Platforming, Aromatics production units and process controls. Steve holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.
  Reddiam Raghu Ram, Global Head of HR for Specialties business & Asia Talent Lead
  Rohaya Roslee, Manager, Talent Management (SEA)
  Rohaya Roslee is the Manager, Talent Management (South East Asia) for Dow Chemical Pacific (Singapore) Pte Ltd. She is responsible for driving initiatives to enhance the capability and performance of employees and engaging the workforce to create a dynamic and inclusive workplace. She also oversees the implementation of global and local programs in South East Asia, influencing respective country leadership stakeholders to gain buy-in for these programs and providing guidance to the countries in the implementation. Prior to Dow, she was with Federal Express Pacific Inc. (FedEx), responsible for leadership development for Asia Pacific. Rohaya earned a Bachelor's Degree in Building and Real Estate from National University of Singapore in 2001 and a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Southern Cross University in 2004.
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