Management Moves
15 Apr 2008
Habasit Rossi … Victaulic … Excel Automation … Boge Compressors … Haden Freeman … Polypipe … HARTING … Sandvik … E2S … Danfos … Mac’Ants … Habasit Rossi … Shell UK Oil Products … MHW … Spelsberg … ISOPA … Sulzer Wood … T
Process Engineering Appointments Tracker: Key movers in the process industries and related industrial sectors:
Company (announced) | Position | Name | Career Path |
Habasit Rossi 10 April | UK general manager | Richard Smith | No details supplied |
Victaulic 8 April | Executive vice president and chief technical officer | Larry Thau | Has served in a number of key capacities related to the development of new products during his 35-year career at Victaulic, will be responsible for global product research and development activities as well as participating in global strategic planning. Is the inventor or co-inventor of more than 20 patents assigned to Victaulic |
Excel Automation 8 April | Operations director | David McCulloch | Renews a previous connection with the Conveying and materials handling company, having been director and general manager of Excel from 1992 to 1995. Needless to say, he brings to this new position, a wealth of experience in the conveying and materials handling sector |
Boge Compressors GmbH 28 March | International sales director | Geoff Taylor | No details supplied |
Boge Compressors GmbH 28 March | General manager | Mike Argent | Will take over the day-to-day management and leadership of the company in the UK. Has spent over 30 years in the compressed air industry and brings extensive industry experience and a proven record of management, leadership and business development skills to his new role. Most recently worked as the general manager at the Boge South Wales Sales & Service Centre |
Haden Freeman Risk Services 25 March | Principal consultant | Andrew Fowler | After 16 years at the Health & Safety Executive, Andrew Fowler has become a principal consultant with HFL Risk Services based in Manchester. His HSE career began as a specialist inspector of process safety and in COMAH assessment. He has since become prominent in developing methodologies for societal risk assessment and land planning use. Post Buncefield, he chaired a working group on emergency arrangements. As a Durham chemistry PhD, Fowler joined Courtaulds Research prior to HSE |
Polypipe 25 March | National sales manager, Polypipe Industrial team | Mark Gibbons | Has a strong technical, engineering and sales background plus a detailed knowledge of the UK plastic piping market |
HARTING KgaA 19 March | Board member for Connectivity & Networks | PhilipHarting | Since September 2005, Harting, who is the son of proprietors Margrit and Dietmar Harting, has held the post of managing director, with responsibility for developing the HARTING Technology Group’s business activities in Asia |
E2S 19 March | Sales and marketing manager | Neal Porter | With over 20 years’ experience in the signalling industry, Porter is a well known figure throughout the European, Middle East and Far Eastern markets |
NiTech Solutions 18 March | Scientific advisor | Professor Malcolm Mackley | Mackley, a professor in Process Innovation at the University of Cambridge, is an expert in the field of baffled mixing. He has directed the Polymer Fluids Group at Cambridge for the last 20 years – a group with a high international reputation for its polymer processing experimental studies and the use of advanced modelling techniques |
Arc Energy Resources 17 March | Technical & quality director | Neil Cook | Was previously special projects director at the company |
Arc Energy Resources 17 March | Production manager | Mark Johnson | Joins after 30 years with a leading cement manufacturer, where his role covered sales, engineering and regional staff management |
Arc Energy Resources 17 March | Project manager | Brian Powell | Has spent the last two years as works manager with a precision component manufacturer and before that, 26 years with a manufacturer of process control valves |
Sandvik 13 March | Product manager for process industries in the UK | Barinder Ghai | With over six years’ experience within the Sandvik organisation and expertise on projects both large and small, Ghai is able to advise customers on material selection and suitability, recommending engineering solutions for the most demanding environments and applications. He is a graduate in production engineering and also holds diplomas in materials management and sales and marketing |
Amarinth 13 March | Sales engineer for the north of the country | Sheldon Wilford | Has been associated with Amarinth since 2003. Brings strong technical skills to his new role from over 18 years in the pump industry and from his experience in the chemical and petrochemical markets. His previous responsibilities include business development manager for Garlock (GB) Ltd and prior to that, technical sales for Aesseal plc and a spell at JP Pumps |
Danfos 10 March | Area Sales Manager - HVAC drives | Tim Keighley | Well known in HVAC circles in the north of England, Keighley has wide experience of HVAC applications having previously worked for Landis & Gyr, Satchwell and Johnson Controls |
Mac’Ants 10 March | Plastic blast media and export abrasives business manager | Sean Williams | Brings extensive experience to the role, including nine years in the abrasive media industry and an earlier background in the manufacturing of plastics and amino moulding powder. Has worked to develop plastic media sales throughout the world, in particular on a number of confidential military and aerospace projects |
Habasit Rossi Ltd 5 March | Andrew Randall | Marketing communications manager | Has a broad range of experience in project and campaign management. Previously worked for an electrical installation engineering company the Lowe Group, and for 11th Hour Marketing |
Shell UK Oil Products Ltd 29 Feb | UK Nordics marketing manager for its lubricants business | Justine Clare | Takes over the role from Caroline Missen who is moving to Shell USA. Clare has spent the last three years driving sales growth of lubricants for the transport sector.After starting her Shell career as a research scientist, she joined Shell Global Solutions with responsibility for marketing product development and service sales to the automotive industry, before moving to a key account management role for UK Transport Lubricants |
MWH 22 Feb | Director of MWH’s new Project Services business | Gareth Mills | Joined MWH from British Nuclear Fuels Ltd in 2001, and as project manager, managed United Utilities £60m Liverpool Wastewater Treatment Works programme. He then led MWH’s first decommissioning contract for the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Winfrith, Dorset. Most recently he has taken a business development role for MWH Nuclear Services, developing business for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and the Radioactive Waste Management Directorate |
Spelsberg 22 Feb | Representative for Scotland | David Nicoll | Has an electrical engineering background, including stints in the electrical contracting business, selling luminaries and carrying out lighting design work for specifiers and on to a senior position in distribution. Has been working as an agent for 15 years and represents a number of companies across the electrical spectrum |
ISOPA 21 Feb | Secretary general | Dr Wolfram Frank | Is to succeed Mike Jeffs, who will retire at the end of March. Wolfram has a wealth of experience in polyurethanes. After his PhD studies at the University of Aachen, he joined BASF and has worked in the polyurethanes area since 1982; in research and in commercial roles in the US, Hungary and as managing director for Elastogran in France from 1992 to 2005 |
Sulzer Wood Ltd (a JV between Wood Group and Sulzer Pumps UK) 15 Feb | General manager of Sulzer Wood Ltd | Graham Glen | Joins from a 17-year career with Howden Process Compressors in Renfrew, Scotland, where he was latterly general manager for Aftersales and Support, and before that, in repair engineering, field operations and customer support roles |
Thorite 15 Feb | Apprentice becomes fully fledged Thorite Service Engineer | Jonathan Kinsella | Has just graduated from the apprenticeship scheme, having completed an Advanced Modern Apprenticeship in Engineering. He has also gained an NVQ Level 3 certificate in Engineering Maintenance (mechanical), plus an Advanced Diploma in Engineering and Technology. Was Thorite’s Apprentice of the Year in 2005 |
Thorite 15 Feb | Apprentice service engineer | Jonathan Moulson | Latest person to join the company’s four-year apprenticeship programme training scheme Will receive hands-on experience and attend study periods during his time as an apprentice |
Adept Scientific plc 12 Feb | DAQ technical support specialist | Daniel Hadji-Ristic | Joins Adept having recently completed a PhD in Physics during which he designed and implemented a LabView based control and data acquisition system for thermo-electric experiments on semiconductor structures, including the development of LabView drivers. Between studies Daniel has worked in IT support |
Mac’Ants Group 12 Feb | National sales manager, covering UK sales of abrasives, electro minerals and metals | Tim Berry | Qualifications include a five-year Mechanical Engineering apprenticeship and an HNC in Mechanical Engineering, alongside lengthy experience in the abrasive industry. Berry’s background in the Abrasive industry is enhanced by a number of years prior in the offshore oil and gas production sector, where he was directly involved in a number of high profile prestige projects – not least the HVAC contract for the Piper Bravo rig |
BP plc 11 Feb | Non-executive director | George David | David is the chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corp., a supplier of high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide which he joined in 1975. He is also a non-executive director of Citigroup |
Adams Rite 11 Feb | Managing director | David Wigglesworth | Commercial and leadership experience from a career starting as a trainee electrical & electronics engineer, through to commercial director of Fixt Logistics at GDA Holdings Ltd. His commercial experience includes operating in the the wholesaler, distributor, B2B and OEM markets. Other senior roles include two as MD, operating within the print franchise and electrical industry. Replacing Iain Mackay, Adams Rite’s current Chairman and acting MD who retires in March |
Hach Lange 8 Feb | Leader of a new team of water monitoring experts for the industrial sector | Martin Small | Team combines many years of experience in water monitoring, providing skills and technical knowledge, including in the food & beverage, power, chemical/petrochem, paper/pulp and aquaculture markets |
Sealed Air 8 Feb | Operations manager for its Bradford site | Mick Gillard | With 12 years of experience working with Sealed Air at the Cambridgeshire site in St Neots, Mr Gillard has an impressive depth of knowledge of the company in terms of culture and procedure |
Thorite 8 Feb | Capital sales engineer | Stewart Craig | N/A |
Adept Scientific plc, Letchworth, UK 4 Feb | Technical Sales Specialist | Bakhtiar Choudhury | Studied Electronic Engineering at Kent University. Joined from National Instruments, and has extensive commercial and technical experience |
Key Technology 31 Jan | Product Marketing Manager for Processing Systems | David Johnsen | Has been with Key for seven years and brings 18 years of industrial food processing industry experience to his new position. Prior to this promotion, he was a Product Specialist, Sales Engineer at Key. Previously, he was the Sales Manager for REYCO Systems and prior to that, he was the Northwest Regional Sales Manager for Cornell Pump Co. |
RA Rodriguez 31 Jan | Sales and marketing manager | David Hey | For seven years Hey was a product manager responsible for bearings at RA Rodriguez. Before joining, the company, he had spent 17 years in direct engineering sales and latterly was European sales manager for Holroyd Gears |
Habasit Rossi Ltd 31 Jan | Sales and marketing director | Ian Thornham | Brings with him 20 years of experience. Previously worked for Tensar International, a manufacturer of civil engineering products in Blackburn, for seven years, in sales and marketing roles |
Grontmij 29 Jan | Operations manager for land remediation team | Marlon Frost | Prior to joining Grontmij, Frost worked for Encia Group, most recently as an operations director accredited for the treatment of hazardous waste and responsible for programming works and developing knowledge of specialist treatment technologies. Prior to this he was a team leader, co-ordinating engineers responsible for the supervision, validation and verification of brownfield remediation projects, assuring the regulatory approval process. Began his career with CL Associates before working on major remediation and geoenvironmental projects with Leeds-based White Young Green |
Hi Flow Valves Ltd 23 Jan | General Manager for Mildenhall-based operations | Lee Vincent | Has over 20 years’ experience in the valve distribution industry, working in both the UK and international markets. He joins Hi Flow from another major UK valve stockist and distributor, where he was general manager for their North East England branch office |
Siemens Water Technologies 25 Jan | President and CEO | Chuck Gordon | Succeeds Roger Radke, who is moving on to a new position in Siemens’ healthcare business. Gordon has been a member of Water Technologies management since 1995 holding several management positions including Southern Regional vice president and senior vice president of Services and Products. Most recently, he served as the Executive Vice President of the Systems business, the global equipment and systems arm of the Water Technologies business |
Planned Maintenance (Pennine) Ltd 23 Jan | Contracts manager | Sean Haynes | Began his career with Yorkshire Water in 1988, as a mechanical maintenance fitter and brings extensive experience to PMP’s operations. These include repair and maintenance contracting, AMEX-10 Seal installation, surveying and condition assessment in confined spaces. While working for McAlpine last year, he managed Yorkshire Water maintenance contracting for a large part of the region |
Spiroflow Ltd 22 Jan | Managing director | Robert Hudson | Has been working with the company for several months. Was previously production director at Palamatic, prior to establishing his own engineering and management consultancy company in 2006. After studying mechanical engineering in the petrochemical industry, he moved into the powder-handling field in the late 1980’s, where he continued his academic studies in management, health & safety and election to both the IoD and Chartered Management Institute |
Netzsch Pumps Ltd 22 Jan | Managing director | James Harvey | Returns to the UK to take up the position of MD of Netzsch Pumps Ltd, having first joined the Walsall-based company as an area sales manager in 1997. Has almost 20 years’ experience in progressing cavity pump sales – the last ten within the Netzsch group. Joins after two years in the US as national sales manager for the US and Canada. Prior to that, he spent five years in Germany as area sales manager for South East Europe, the Middle East and North Africa |
Aker Kvaerner 22 Jan | President & CEO | Simen Lieungh | A former executive VP and 20-year company veteran, Lieungh has held several positions within Aker Kvaerner and served as executive VP of Field Development from 2002 to August 2007. He comes from the position as MD at Arne Blystad AS. Lieungh will succeed Martinus Brandal as president & CEO. Brandal is to become chairman of Aker Kværner ASA, and executive VP for the Energy Technologies sector in Aker ASA. |
Purex International Ltd 14 Jan | Head of Sales & Marketing | Bob Pitchford | Joins with 25 years’ experience in the electronics industry. Pitchford has worked for Hollis, Electrovert and Speedline Technologies for over 21 years and has held various sales and management positions over that time. Helped to open the first Cookson EMD centre in Dublin, Ireland and on a follow up project to replicate the process in San Jose California |
Hydro International 10 Jan | Chief Operating Officer overseeing European and USA business divisions | Chris Williams | Has more than 20 years’ experience in the civil engineering and water sector and is a member of the government’s Water Sector Advisory Group. He is a board member of British Water and was responsible for establishing the Sustainable Drainage (SUDS) Group within British Water. Is currently chairman of the UK Rainwater Harvesting Association and is also an executive committee member of Aqua Europa, a pan-European water trade association |
Bodycote Materials Testing, Engineering & Technology (MTET) Europe 10 Jan | Manager for hiring technical staff and technical training and development | John Wilcox | Joins the company as part of a programme to ensure a high calibre of technical talent is obtained either through internal development of existing Bodycote resource or through external recruitment. Has been tutoring and supporting students on academic courses for many years, including many of Bodycote Testing’s directors |
Castell 10 Jan | Area sales manager for central England | Warren Spiers | Holds a degree in mechanical engineering and a BTEC in manufacturing. Before becoming a qualified teacher, he completed an apprenticeship in machine tooling at Cincinnati Milacron (now Cincinnati Machine) |
Thorite 9 Jan | Capital equipment sales engineer for the North West of England | Anthony Herring | No details supplied |
Hogg Pneumatic Solutions 9 Jan | Key Account Manger | Michael Benison | No details supplied |
AMEC plc 7 Jan | Strategic development director and to the management committee | François-Philippe Champagne | Joins from ABB Ltd in Switzerland, where most recently he was group vice president and senior counsel. Before joining ABB in 1999 he was senior attorney for Elsag Bailey Process Automation, Group Operations Europe and Asia.Gained a Bachelor of Laws degree at Montreal University followed by Master of Laws degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland |
Gefran UK Ltd 3 Jan | South of England area sales engineer | Jon Bawden | Experience in temperature, flow, pressure and level control systems in plastics, oven & furnace, process heating and other processing areas from over 24 years in process instrumentation sales and application support roles. He was previously in sales management roles with Jumo and West Instruments and spent five years as a partner with East Anglia based XL Instruments, which represents Gefran automation components |
Midland Manufacturing, a North American supplier of railroad tank car equipment 3 Jan | Quality Assurance Manager | Kevin Woloszyk | Most recently spent four years as a quality and manufacturing engineer with NorthStar Aerospace. His other experience includes four years as the QA manager for NTN Bearing and stints as a manufacturing engineer with Orion Manufacturing, project manager with Ronningen Research and as an engineer with Triple S Plastics |
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Smith Flow Control 20 Dec | Regional business manager for Asia at its Chinese parent base, Halma China | Leo Qi | Joins the team from a previous position as regional manager at Hamilton-Sundstrand Industrial (Shanghai) Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of United TechnologiesCorp., a major supplier of aerospace and industrial products. Previously spent seven years as a piping engineer at SINOPEC Engineering Inc. Holds a bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University majoring in petrochemical equipments and mechanics, and an MBA from Tsinghua University |
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. 17 Dec | Committee appointments | (See across) | Dietmar Harting of HARTING KgaA has been re-elected to serve a third two-year term as DIN president. Heinz Helmut Kempkes, the MD of Kempkes GmbH, was elected first deputy to the president, and Manfred Hennecke, president of the Federal Institute for Materials Research & Testing, second deputy |
Checkpoint Systems 17 Dec | Senior management changes | (See across) | Ulrich Schäfer has been appointed as the new manager with Europe-wide responsibility for the business line of Shrink Management & Merchandising Solutions and iLabels at Checkpoint Systems. Dirk Endlich succeeds him in his management post at the German company Checkpoint Systems GmbH |
Grontmij 10 Dec | Principal ecologist | Dr Gordie Wright | Chartered biologist and environmentalist joins from Helensburgh-based Babcock Naval Services, where he led project planning and management of maintenance work on nuclear submarines. Over 30 years’ experience as an ecologist and project manager. Holds a diploma in pollution control and a first class degree in biology from the Open University. Has also gained a master’s degree in business administration and a PhD from the University of Glasgow. A member of the Institute of Biology and the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management |
| Emerson Process Management 6 Dec | European president | David Dunbar | Takes over a role previously held by Jim Nyquist (see below). Will relocate to Emerson’s European head office in Baar, Switzerland, from Ohio, where he was president of Emerson Climate Technologies’ refrigeration division. International process industry experience includes previous role within Emerson Process Management’s asset optimisation division, where he was responsible for machinery health management technologies and services |
Jones & Shipman/ Holroyd 5 Dec | Sales & marketing director | Mike Duignan | A long-term employee of Jones & Shipman, having spent more than 20 years with the international precision engineering group, latterly as sales director. Based in Leicester, his appointment into this new position comes as part of a continued restructuring following the merger of Jones & Shipman and Holroyd in December 2006 under the holding company Precision Technologies Group |
Lloyd’s Register 4 Dec | Global oil & gas director | Iain Light | Joins Lloyd’s Register after 16 years with DNV, where he was COO for its Oil & Gas business and then the COO of DNV Consulting. During the reorganisation of DNV in 2006, was appointed director of business development for DNV Energy. A PhD in thermodynamics, focusing on human performance in cold environments, Light also held key roles at the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology and at Technica, where he led a group responsible for risk analyses in offshore escape, evacuation and rescue systems. Was appointed the general manager for the Aberdeen operations at DNV, when it acquired Technica in 1991 |
Hanovia 30 Nov | China country manager, industrial UV disinfection applications | George Wang | Holds a Masters Degree from East China University of Science and Technology and has many years’ experience in research into various aspects of water treatment. Has extensive knowledge of water treatment and UV disinfection technologies |
Key Technology Inc. 28 Nov | Chief technology officer | Richard Hebel | Most recently MD of Key’s pharma business unit, Symetix. Previously, he was VP, Corporate marketing and business development for Key. Prior to joining Key, Rich served technical and marketing executive positions with Allen Bradley, Technicon, Ball Aerospace Corp, and Eaton Corporation. Was a charter member of the Machine Vision Association, and is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, IEEE, and ISPE |
Emerson Process Management 27 Nov | President of Global Sales | Jim Nyquist | A 30-year career with Emerson, including world area roles in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Most recently he was president of Emerson Process Management Europe (2004-2007). He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University |
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) 23 Nov | Operations director | Gareth Barker | Moves from general manager to operations director for the south machine shop, having previously worked his way from apprentice to product manager for SFIL’s roll-manufacturing division. His recent challenges have included the repair and clean up operation in the south machine shop following serious floods at the Brightside Lane site |
AMEC plc 20 Nov | Chief operating officer, Power and Process | Didier Pfleger | Joins from ABB Robotics, where he was head of business unit systems. Much of his earlier career was in Alstom, with operational roles in Alstom Energy and Alstom Power. Joined GEA Group as COO of its Energy Technology unit. Between 2002 and 2006, represented the power industry’s views on clean fossil fuel technologies as president of the European Power Plant Supplier Association |
Crowcon 20 Nov | Managing director | Warren Rees | Previously MD of Fire Fighting Enterprises (FFE), another Halma company, which specialises in IR optical beam smoke detectors. Joined Halma from Cooper Industries. An applied mathematics graduate of the University of Wales, Rees is experienced with both electronic instruments and integrated systems |
Flextraction Ltd 16 Nov | Sales manager for the whole of Ireland | Andrew Seaton | Experienced in the fume and dust extraction and ventilation industries in Ireland, having previously been area sales manager for Donaldson Filtration (GB) Ltd.. Has an MSc in manufacturing management and a BTech in mechanical engineering from the University of Ulster |
Honeywell Process Solutions 8 Nov | General manager Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) | Norm Gilsdorf | Is to replace Paul Orzeske, vice president/general manager of Honeywell Process Solutions for EMEA. Gilsdorf was previously senior vice president of the Process Technology and Equipment business unit of UOP LLC, a Honeywell company |
Schaeffler (UK) Ltd 8 Nov | Linear product specialist | John Loonam | Brings engineering and sales experience to the new role, including six years as a regional sales engineer at Schaeffler UK, as well as previous roles at a power transmission company and a construction vehicle business |
Wonderware 8 Nov | President | Sudipta Bhattacharya | Successor to Mike Bradley, Bhattacharya joined the company in August 2007 as chief software solutions officer, moving from SAP where he was senior vice president of solutions management for its supply chain, manufacturing and product lifecycle management applications |
ABB 6 Nov | Account Manager for Engineering, Procurement and Construction companies | Paul Wilson | ABB’s UK instrumentation business’ new product and service offering for oil, gas, chemical and pharmaceutical applications. Wilson will now act as ABB’s front line contact for EPCs in the London region |
Atlas Copco Tools 5 Nov | Product manager, QA tooling department | Gerard Everett | Joins the company from Cooper Power Tools, where he held the position of applications specialist |
Fulton Boiler Works (GB) 5 Nov | UK managing director | Gary Eckersley | Succeeding John Ashby, Eckersley joins following a 15-year stint at Spirax Sarco |
Metasphere 5 Nov | Business development director | Pete Easey | Has over 25 years’ experience in the utility sector and a strong background in control and automation. A time-served electrical/electronic apprentice with experience of asset management, Easey has taken up key roles at industry groups including the IET and TAUWI |
TETRA PAK CPS 5 Nov | Sales manager | Tony Casey | Joins from Invensys APV where he built up an extensive expertise in the dairy, beverage and processed food markets over a 14-year period. This technical and commercial background will now prove invaluable to Tetra Pak CPS, a global provider of hygienic liquid process systems |
| Wood Group 1 Nov | President, production facilities, Latin America and the Caribbean | Neil Harvie | Joined Wood Group in 1994 and has held a number of senior management positions in the UK and Venezuela. Based in Caracas, he has a track record of success in this region and has played a key role in Wood Group’s broad based development in Venezuela |
| Wood Group 1 Nov | Production Facilities Managing Director for Middle East, North Africa, Russia and the Caspian | Peter Ireton | A chemical engineer who joins Wood Group with 20 years experience in the business. Has held engineering, commercial and sales roles on various major projects in the Middle East, Russia and the Caspian. Based in Aberdeen, Peter will work to develop our existing businesses and expand our footprint in these key growth regions |
| Wood Group 1 Nov | Production facilities business development director for Asia Pacific | Bob Beavis | Joins with 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas business and has held various international roles covering engineering, project and operations management. He has spent the past eight years in the Asia Pacific region where he has built up extensive market knowledge and customer relationships |
Borealis 1 Nov | Executive vice president for Base Chemicals and member of the executive board | Martin Kuzaj | Joins Borealis with extensive experience in the chemicals industry. From 1986 to 2000, he held several management positions within the Shell Group, before becoming business manager for Styrene at Shell Chemicals Ltd, based in London. From 2000 to 2003, he was president/CEO of Steinbeis Packaging Group located near Munich, Germany, and since 2004, has been an independent senior partner consulting in the chemical and financial industries |
Invensys/FDT Group 31 Oct | Chairman of the FDT Group | Hartmut Wallraf | Invensys’ chief of technology and vice president for Europe and Middle East operations, has been elected chairman of the board of the FDT Group, the consortium of manufacturers and process instrumentation vendors working to enable interoperability among diverse technology products. Wallraf has served Invensys Foxboro in various capacities for 27 years and has consistently advocated the strategic role of FDT technology |
OPW Fluid Transfer Group 31 Oct | Vice president, Asia-Pacific & Latin America | Mark Tipple | Joins with extensive sales experience in the Asia-Pacific region selling industrial products through distribution and has also served as president of Houston-based Enraf |
Hayward Tyler Group 29 Oct | Oil & gas market development manager | Darren Cowley | Moves from Knowsley SK. A mechanical engineering graduate, Cowley has over 20 years’ experience in the pump and valve industry, most recently working in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan |
Technip 14 Oct | Bernard di Tullio | President and chief operating officer | Was previously president of the company’s Oil and Gas Division. Joined Technip in 1975 and progressively increased his management responsibilities worldwide |
Flexicon (Europe) Ltd 11 Oct | Applications engineer, Northern UK territories | Neal Monks | Previous experiences in sales and engineering management, including in the powder processing environment at Kemutec Powder Technologies Ltd. and Hosokawa Micron Ltd. Over the last 25 years moved from apprentice on the workshop floor to gain in-depth experience in design engineering and sales management. Replaces Dr. Ken Claque who has retired |
Foundrax Engineering Products Ltd 8 Oct | Operations manager | John Thatcher | Joins hardness testing equipment company Foundrax with over 25 years’ senior management experience within the engineering sector, including senior appointments both at private companies and at subsidiaries of multi-nationals – operating in areas as diverse as capital goods and high value metals manufacture, to vehicle assembly and automotive component supply. Has also worked closely with SMEs across a number of industry sectors to implement lean manufacturing methods |
Thorite 8 Oct | New staff for regional sales & service centres | (See across) | Adele Cartledge joins the Huddersfield Centre as supervisor, where she will be responsible for all day-to-day operation. Liam Pinder, joins the Blackburn Centre as sales administrator. Matthew West joins the Bradford Centre Service department as assistant administrator |
John Wood Group Gas Turbine Services division 8 Oct | President of its Light Industrial Turbines business (WGLIT) in the Americas | Kimmo Fuller | Extensive experience in the energy industry gained during an eight-year career at GE Oil & Gas, where he was latterly general mnager of its North America Core Services business. Prior to that he was employed with Varco International. Has a degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA |
Society of Operations Engineers (SOE) 8 Oct | Chief executive | Nick Jones | A chartered accountant, Jones joined the SOE as head of finance in 2001, but has effectively led the Society as acting chief executive following the departure of Marian Kelly in December 2006. Will spearhead the SOE’s values, which promote engineering as an essential vocation within society |
GlaxoSmithKline 8 Oct | Chief Executive Officer designate | Andrew Witty | Currently president, GSK’s Pharmaceuticals Europe, he will succeed Dr Jean-Pierre Garnier following his retirement as CEO at the end of May 2008. Garnier said: “[Witty] has made many significant contributions to GSK and I am very pleased that he is to be our next CEO.” |
Sandvik Materials Technology 3 Oct | General manager for powder technology | Carina Andersson | Currently MD of Ramnäs Bruk. Will bring expertise of conducting business development operations in the field of powder technology. Sandvik Materials Technology’s operations in powder technology involve R&D and manufacturing of customised components of high-alloyed steel as well as nickel- and cobalt-based alloys, production of powder-based billets at the company’s plant in Surahammar, Sweden and of fine-grain, high-alloy powder in Wales in the UK |
IONIK Consulting, part of energy services group John Wood Group 2 Oct | Vice president - Americas | Tim Sylvester | Over 25 years’ experience in engineering, business development and operations, including in developing and executing global business plans. Prior to joining IONIK, worked for Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc. as vice-president of business development for its Pipeline Services division |
| Braby 1 Oct | Three new recruits to its Materials Handling sales team | (see across) | Between them, Jonathan Kerr, Michael Green and Cliff Jackson bring with them over 70 years sales experience, specialising in the food and minerals industries. Appointments come in the wake of Braby’s recently formed distribution partnership with US-based Hapman. Hapman, a leading provider of powder and bulk material handling conveyors and equipment |
FMA 1 Oct | Managing director | Terry Clough | Previously commercial director at FMA Process Engineering Ltd. Has succeeded Derek Olsen as MD at the Lichfield-based company. Has over 30 years’ expertise of liquid processing – and almost 20 years spent delivering capital projects, and the highest levels of process data control to customers across the brewery, dairy and food industries |
Curtis Instruments, Inc. 28 Sept | Director of Product Management – Motor Speed Controllers | Mark Ankers | Most recently was Product Marketing Manager - Industrial Products, for PG Drives Technology Ltd. of Christchurch, UK. Previously responsible for the installation and commissioning of automated control systems for the marine and offshore industry with Alstom Power Conversion of Rugby, UK, and the design and installation of industrial process control systems with Lloyd Morris Electrical Ltd. of Wrexham, UK. Holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK |
RMB Engineering 28 Sept | Operations Director at RMB Engineering, a Division of Deritend Industries | Mark Brady | Replaced his father Ray Brady, the long-standing MD of the UK industrial gearbox supply and repair organisation, who is taking a position on the Deritend board. Has learned the business from the grass roots and has many years’ experience of consistently meeting the 24/7 supply and repair requirements of some of the most demanding industries in the UK: quarrying, mining, power generation, water and steel |
BJ Process and Pipeline Services 17 Sept | Area manager – Middle East | Andrew Manning | Over 15 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry and has held several operational and management roles in the international process and pipeline industry. Joined BJ PPS in 1999 as sales manager for the Far East region based in Singapore. Then worked for an independent pipeline services provider as regional business development manager in the Asia Pacific region |
BJ Process and Pipeline Services 17 Sept | Operations manager – Abu Dhabi | Aboulkhair El-Arnous | Previously BJ PPS operations manager in Saudi Arabia and district engineer with the Well Services division in Saudi Arabia. Has worked throughout the Middle East during a 17-year career in the petroleum industry, including for a major service company as country manager - well services in Syria, and as an engineer for a major operator in Kuwait. Is a graduate of University of Texas and holds a BS in Civil Engineering |
BJ Process and Pipeline Services 17 Sept | Region engineer for the Middle East-Asia Pacific | Daniel Fehnert | Previously worked as commissioning engineer for the company on the BP Shah Deniz project in Azerbaijan. Started his career in the pipeline and process industry in 1992 when he joined McKenna & Sullivan. Following the purchase of McKenna & Sullivan by BJ Services, he went on to work for Nowsco until it was acquired by BJ in 1996. Holds a BEng degree in Marine Technology and Offshore Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
Lorien Engineering Solutions 14 Sept | Building design engineer | Roger Davis | Joins Lorien from Pirelli Tyres Ltd where he was a building surveyor and before worked for ICI Pharmaceuticals and Wedgwood Ltd. Davis has also worked for the Department of the Environment as a building and civil engineering technician and for Unilever Research and Development as a contract civil and building project manager |
Lorien Engineering Solutions 14 Sept | Project Engineer for Process and Utilities | Kenneth Ndubisi | Previously worked for Nigerian Breweries Plc for ten years, where he held the posts of utilities manager, mechanical installations manager and maintenance and packaging engineer. In these roles he was heavily involved with projects for Anheuser Busch, Walkers Snack foods and Reckitt Benckiser |
Lorien Engineering Solutions 14 Sept | Senior packaging engineer | John Wortley | Studied electro-mechanical engineering at University College Swansea. After graduating he went on to work for companies such as SASIB Beverage Ltd, Simplimatic Engineering Ltd and Perkins Engineers. Experienced in the food, drink and brewing sectors having worked on projects for companies such as Britvic Soft Drinks, Watson’s Dairies, Greene King and Carlsberg |
Hanovia Ltd 10 Sept | Technical director | Andrew Clark | Joins from Hozelock Ltd where he was director of design. Prior to that appointment he was technical manager of Raymarine Ltd. A graduate of the University of Southampton, he has extensive experience in project management and designing products for global markets against tight unit cost constraints |
Atlas Copco Tools 6 Sept | Product Manager, Air Tools | Adrian Gower | Has spent most of his commercial career in the same industry segment as Atlas Copco Tools, starting in the sales office of ATA Grinding Processes and eventually becoming sales office manager and then a technical sales executive for its SE region. Then set up 5-sides Industrial, specialising in tool-vibration management |
Baldor 6 Sept | Managing director, Baldor European operations | Gavin Johnson | With a degree in mechanical engineering, Johnson has spent his career in industrial automation roles. Most recently, he was general manager of Baldor’s motion control design and manufacturing facility in the UK, and jointly managed Baldor’s European operations for its industrial motor and drive products |
Malvern Instruments 28 Aug | Field service egineer, Process Systems in the US | Raymond Augustine | Joins Malvern from Mettler Toledo Ingold (Process Analytics Division) in Bedford, MA where he was a service technician and formal trainer for six years. Before that, was a system level test technician with Teradyne in Boston |
Mixing Solutions Ltd 28 Aug | International sales manager, power sector | Dylan Griffith-Jones | Has extensive technical sales expertise has been gained over the past 10 years, specialising in rotating equipment within the oil, gas and petchem industries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia |
Grundfos 22 Aug | Managing director of its Danish production operation Grundfos A/S | Niels Møller Jensen | With Grundfos since 1999, and before was development manager in ABB Motors, Denmark. Responsible for establishing production unit in Tatabanya, and during 2000-05 was general manager for Grundfos Manufacturing Hungary. During the last year has been vice president for group quality and for group environment and corporate social responsibility |
| IMO Precision Control | Chief executive | David Ede | Joins the company from WEG UK, where he oversaw the company’s growth during seven years as managing director |
Purex 14 Aug | Managing director | Paul Priestley | Replaces Phil Mullins who is to retire 22 years leading the Rotherham-based fume extraction business Purex International Ltd. Having held previous MD roles, Priestley joins Purex with extensive UK and international sales experience at global accounts and distributor sales level in automotive and SME industries |
Heriot-Watt University 14 Aug | Head of the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences | Professor Douglas Greenhalgh | Will take up his appointment on the 2 Nov from his previous position as Professor and Head of the Automotive Dept, School of Engineering, Cranfield University in Bedford, a position he has held since 1997 |
Bonomi (UK) Ltd 13 Aug | UK sales manager | Deryk Johnson | A qualified marine engineer who brings over 20 years’ experience in the process industry to Bonomi’s team |
Vacucom Ltd 13 Aug | Branch manager | Lawrence Huxley | Joined Vacucom at the end of June and opened a new sales and marketing office in the south of the UK, which he now heads up as branch manager. Responsibilities also include marketing throughout the whole of the UK |
Brammer 2 Aug | Head of marketing | Jeremy Salisbury | Product, channel and brand management experience in European and domestic marketing roles. Previously worked for Potterton, Flavel Leisure and Caradon Plumbing. Joins Brammer from Kohler Mira, where he was marketing manager |
Camozzi Pneumatics Ltd 27 July | Regional sales manager | Colin Thrush | Joins with over 25 years’ experience within the pneumatics industry |
Freeman Technology 23 July | Applications specialist, focusing on supporting customers using the company’s FT4 Powder Rheometer in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France | Dr Ludwig Schneider | Joined powder characterisation company Freeman Technology last December. Studied and worked in Germany, France and the UK and holds a PhD in powder metallurgy. Has conducted post-doctoral research into powder flowability, powder compaction and discrete element modelling of powder assemblies |
CC-Link Partners’ Association (Fieldbus users’ group) 23 July | General manager for its European operations | Steve Jones | Jones is returning to the UK after a four-year posting to Germany, where he led Mitsubishi’s advance into Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Previously he had been divisional manager for the company’s Automation Systems Division. Replaces Malcolm Robins, who is retiring from the role. CC-Link was originally developed by Mitsubishi Electric, CC-Link was released as an “Open” network in 2000 so that independent automation equipment manufacturers could incorporate CC-Link compatibility into their products |
Servomex Group Ltd gas analysis instrumentation company 19 July | Managing director | Chris Cottrell | Joins from the Honeywell Group, where he served most recently as vice president of the Gas Detection Division. Previously he was vice president of sales and marketing for Zellweger Analytics and also MD of the Water Division of Zellweger Analytics. Before rejoining Zellweger, Chris was general manager of ABB Process Analytical Division - EMEA, which followed on from his initial career in the Analytical Spectroscopy Division of Philips. He will be based in Servomex’s UK head office in Crowborough, East Sussex |
Thorite 19 July | Sales administrator | Peter McNaughton | Joins Thorite after 10 years with Richard Austin Alloys (Northern) Ltd |
Tricool Engineering 19 July | Operations director | Martin Storey | No details supplied |
Tricool Engineering 19 July | European Process Temperature Control director | Dave Palmer | Has guided product rationalisation and helped streamline manufacturing at the company |
Energy Industries Council (EIC) 12 July | Chief executive of the Council, succeeding Mike Gregory, who resigned earlier this year | Mike Major | Major has worked mainly in energy contracting, commencing with Petrocarbon Developments Ltd and then Costain companies, in project engineering, oil & gas processing and telecoms, principally as a commercial manager and director. In 1997, he joined Tractebel Engineering as international director and currently has a senior role for RWE’s NPower Energy Solutions |
Swagelok Company 12 July | Regional director, Europe Middle East & Africa | Simon Cooke | Has worked with Swagelok for the past 15 years, firstly as a sales engineer for the sales and service centre in the South West of England, then as field engineer for Swagelok and most recently as business development manager and regional manager, EMEA |
Swagelok Company 12 July | Managing director of sales and service centre Fluid System Technologies (Scotland) Ltd, based in Aberdeen | Peter O’Connor | Previously the company’s regional director EMEA |
| Testo Ltd 11 July | Managing director | Tom Tonkins | Replacing Barry Whittaker, who has decided to resign after 24 years’ service. Tonkins, who was formerly with Bacharach in the US and Geotechnical Instruments of Leamington Spa, has been with Testo for 18 months. |
Chronos Richardson 29 June | Regional sales manager for Scotland and Ireland | Martin Roe | Marks his return to the Nottingham based packaging company where he previously had 36 years continuous service in a variety of manufacturing and sales roles |
AVEVA 29 June | Executive vice president and head of The Americas | Rob Glasier | Prior to this appointment, Glasier has been responsible for AVEVA Americas’ Marine business for the shipbuilding and offshore industry, as well as its asset and information lifecycle management business |
Atlas Copco Tools 28 June | Key account manager, JCB | David McLean | With an engineering background, McLean spent several years working for hydraulics manufacturers, involved in the design and technical sales of couplings, hoses and adapters. Joined Atlas Copco in Jan 2007 |
Signal, the metering pumps division of Gee & Co. 26 June | Divisional manager to head sales & marketing operations for Signal dosing pumps, systems | Ian Summers | Well known and experienced in the chemical dosing industry, having worked for a number of major equipment suppliers across the clean and dirty water treatment markets throughout the UK and Ireland |
Compair 26 June | Manager portable compressors and air tools division, UK & Ireland | Gerry McGettigan | Has in-depth knowledge from over 30 years’ experience in the compressed air industry, including nine years at compare |
Dresser-Rand Group Inc. 14 June | Executive vice president, New Equipment worldwide | Jesus Pacheco | Joined Dresser-Rand in 1990 as an application engineer. Most recently, he was vice president, Client Services, for new equipment, with responsibility for the Americas and the European Served Area. Holds a BSE in mechanical engineering and a BS in economics from the University of Michigan |
Arcotronics UK 21 June | UK sales position | Martin Bamforth | Joined Arcotronics as sales manager. Has over 15 years’ experience in the UK electronics industry – including 10 years in the military electronics sector. Arcotronics manufactures EMC/RFI filters and tantalum capacitors |
Foster Wheeler Ltd 21 June | Vice president & controller | Lisa Zardet Wood | Most recently chief accounting officer for Foster Wheeler Inc. |
SolutionsPT (formerly Pantek Ltd’s UK & Ireland operations) 20 June | Head of Product Marketing | Mike Lees | Previously HMI product manager at Siemens Facilitated Siemens’ arrival on the scene in terms of SCADA systems |
EmsPT 20 June | Program manager | Neil Blackman | Joins EmsPT from AspenTech, where he specialised in Enterprise Information Systems. Has in-depth knowledge and expertise in delivering software solutions to integrate production operations with ERP. Previously also worked for British Steel |
DLoG GmbH 4 June | CEO | Hans-Peter Nüdling | Extensive international experience in sales, operational excellence and entrepreneurial tasks. Held different managerial positions at Siemens and Infineon, including posts as production manager and in ASIC Business Development. In 2004, became sales director for EMEA at ATI Technologies. In 2007 became responsible integrating OEM activities of ATI at AMD Europa |
VBU Association of German Biotech Companies 7 June | Elected to the board | Dr. Uwe Gottschalk | Vice president of purification technologies at Sartorius Biotech GmbH since April 2004. Earlier, he worked at Bayer Health Care, and just before joining Sartorius, he headed the GMP Protein Purification unit in Wuppertal, Germany. Also works as a lecturer for the first accredited Master’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Medicine in Essen, Germany |
Shell Chemicals 1 June | Venture Manager, Saudi Arabia Petrochemical Co./ President Shell Chemicals Arabia LLC | Thierry Capelle | Management, commercial, HR and technical roles for Shell chemicals companies in the UK, Singapore and France. Moves from the position of General Manager, Base Chemicals and Joint Venture Coordination Manager, Asia Pacific |
Shell Chemicals 1 June | General manager, Base Chemicals APME, Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd | Dai Yu | Started at Sinopec in China in 1990; roles including shift operator; shift supervisor; operation engineer; and production manager in an ethylene plant. In 1994, became deputy project director of Yangzi-BASF Styrenics Co Ltd, where he built an EB/SM plant and PS plant and utilities. In 2000, became general manager, Base Chemicals of BASF-YPC Co Ltd. In 2003, moved to CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Co. as Lower Olefins plant manager, and deputy to the manufacturing director. Joined Shell in China in 2006, as senior manager Chemicals Projects. Has a double Master degrees in Mathematics and Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Chemical System Engineering |
Shell Chemicals 1 June | General manager, Ethylene Oxide and Glycols (Global) PBU, Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd | Thomas Chhoa | Joined Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij BV in The Netherlands in 1981. Has since had international management, technical, operational and consultant positions in Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Singapore. Prior to this appointment was vice president Asia Pacific for Shell’s Clean Coal Energy business with Shell Gas & Power. Graduated from university in the UK with a degree in Engineering |
Earth Tech 30 May | Account manager for UK water projects | Mike Kean | Joins Earth Tech after seven years in a similar role with Thames Water |
AxFlow Ltd May 23 | Sales manager for Scotland | Ian Payne | Has been AxFlow’s product manager for Waukesha-Cherry-Burrell pumps for several years. Well-known in the offshore business through his work in supplying pump-based solutions to this sector |
AxFlow Ltd May 23 | Aberdeen base supervisor | Nigel Spragg | Has played a central role in the development of our business in Scotland and his new role will strengthen our management capabilities and resources |
ABB (TUV award) 18 May | Functional safety expert | Stuart Nunns | Becomes one of only 25 people worldwide to gain prestigious TUV status |
Innovative Processing Solutions (Stedman Machine Co.) 18 May | System engineer | Dan Powell | Has over 30 years of experience in engineering. Received an Associate’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cincinnati Technical College. |
Excel Automation 18 May | General manager | Gary Sweeney | Over 15 years’ experience in plant and manufacturing business sectors, including design engineering and project management |
Gardner Energy Management 15 May | UK sales director | Andy Hobbs | Wide experience in sales and marketing in industries ranging from industrial boilers to mechanical handling. Member of the I MechE and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University |
Foster Wheeler Ltd 14 May | Vice president and corporate treasurer | Peter Rose | A 29-year FW veteran, who was appointed vice president, internal audit, and chief corporate compliance officer in 2004. Previously, assistant treasurer of Foster Wheeler Inc. and director of finance and assistant controller of various Foster Wheeler subsidiaries |
Hardide plc 14 May | MD for UK and European operations | Neill Ricketts | Brings 18 years of operations, production and surface engineering experience |
Technip 3 May | President, operations and position on group executive committee | Guy Arlette | Headed France’s oil & gas directorate and led several major firms in the energy sector before joining Technip. During 15 years at Technip, gained senior roles including VP, project control & estimating and VP, internal audit. Since 2003 he had been COO for the Middle East and south west Asia regions. A graduate of Paris‚ Ecole des Mines |
Davy Markham 27 April | Sales manager (global role) | Paul Kincell | Engineering and manufacturing background at leading organisations, including in the Sheffield forgings industry, and grounding in the mining equipment sector. Holds an MBA from Hull |
Technip 27 April | Chairman and CEO | Thierry Pilenko | Succeeds Daniel Valot, who is retiring having led the Group since 1999. Pilenko joined Technip15 Jan to ensure a smooth transition. |
ENSR 19 April | Managing director, UK and Ireland | Bruce Gordon | Worked 25 years in the environmental and engineering industry, including key environmental and engineering directorships. Expertise in risk audits, site remediation, and environmental management systems. Has worked across Europe and Africa. |
Emerson Process Management 13 April | Director PlantWeb for Europe | Travis Hesketh | A chartered electrical engineer with 25 years’ experience in the process control industry. Was automation engineer and product quality leader at Tioxide UK and batch industries group leader at Fischer & Porter. Joined Emerson in 1999 as process systems sales director, UK and Ireland. |
NAMTEC, the National Metals Technology Centre 10 April | Chief technology officer | Dr. Stephen Court | Spent 18 years in the technical department of Alcan; the past two as laboratory director of Alcan sister company Novelis’ R&D Centre in Neuhausen, Switzerland and as Novelis Inc.’s chief scientist. Also held a number of technical leadership roles in Alcan’s R&D labs in Banbury, UK, Kingston, Canada and Neuhausen. |
BJ Services 11 Apr | UK country manager, Well Services, Europe and Africa | Andrew Campbell | Over two years as Norway country manager for the division. Management roles at Nowsco Well Services, which was acquired by BJ in 1996. Holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Heriot Watt University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and ICoTA. |
BJ Services 11 Apr | Norway country manager, Well Services | Bruce Campbell | Previously UK country manager for five years in Aberdeen. Joined BJ in 1996 when the company acquired Nowsco. Previously worked for Dowell Schlumberger and Britoil. Has a Diploma in Management from the Open University. |
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 4 April | Chair | John Armitt | Network Rail’s chief executive and was previously chief executive of Railtrack. Long career with John Laing Construction, working on major projects worldwide. In 1993 he was appointed chief executive of Union Railways, the company responsible for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. Awarded a CBE for contribution to rail industry. In 1997, joined the Costain Group as chief executive. |
Stedman Machine Company 4 April | President | Dennis Gilmour | Has been with Indiana size reduction equipment company Stedman for nearly 30 years. Has held such positions as district sales supervisor, sales manager, vice president sales & marketing and senior vice president |
Beko Technologies 2 April | UK regional sales manager, Southern region | Chris Norris | Joins from a compressed air distributor, where he was an area manager. Started his career as a product support engineer, rising to management role covering service and aftermarket activity. |
Compair 28 March | Regional sales manager, North East region | Richard Sizer | Experienced in the compressed air industry having previously worked for a distributor of compressors, vacuum pumps and turbine blowers. |
OPW Engineered Systems 20 March | Director, quality and productivity | Jeff Reichert | Before joining OPW, was a general manager for a division of Finn Corp. Also held manufacturi
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