Tony Bowdery, regional sales manager, Americas, Heatric

Tony is responsible for Heatric's technical sales activity in North & South America and he has over 10 years experience working with compact heat exchangers. He graduated in 1995 from Loughborough University in the UK with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining Heatric he was a proposals engineer with Chart Industries designing brazed aluminum plate fin exchangers for a range of cryogenic & industrial gas applications. Tony lives & works in Houston and he is happily married with a son aged 3.

Paul Britton, managing director, EnerSea Transport LLC

Mr. Britton earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1986, and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Bob Nimocks, president, Zeus Development Corporation

Zeus Development Corporation is an energy research firm that focuses on world gas development. The company commonly serves manufacturing and oilfield service clients evaluating markets for their products and services in the LNG, GTL, methanol, DME, IGCC and gas-export-related markets. Zeus publishes a number of market-related periodicals, including the www.LNGExpress.com, www.SyngasRefiner.com and www.GasMonetizer.com and organizes workshops, conferences and training programs.

Prior to founding Zeus in 1991, Nimocks was vice president of corporate development for Elders Resources North America, the North American division of an international energy and natural resources company with substantial natural gas production. He earned an MBA from Harvard University (1987), served in the management consulting division of Accenture (1981-84) and obtained BS and BBA degrees from Mississippi State University (1981).

Alan K. Richards, consultant

Alan has over 28 years combined experience in the Energy and Chemical fields. He graduated from OSU in 1977 with a B.S. in Biochemistry. After achieving the highest grade in organic chemistry he studied photosynthetic and metabolic respiration cycles in biological systems. He began his career working in the Florida fertilizer industry for Drew Chemical Corporation. As a water and energy management consultant for the sulfuric acid plants he was promoted to manage the Caribbean district where he focused on the hydrocarbon refining industry. He then consulted for Betz Laboratories in 1979 in the NY, PA,DE and NJ district for numerous refineries where he gained experience in hydrocarbon processes on the shell side. He furthered his career in hydrocarbon refining for Chemtreat Inc. as district manager, and implementing and developing new R&D applications. In 1987 he became involved in the deregulation of the Natural Gas Pipeline industry and founded End Users Natural Gas, currently the oldest Natural Gas Marketer in the US, serving industrial and commercial customers. In 1998 he founded EUI a hydrocarbon R&D company dedicated to methane functionalization. In addition to overseeing several other energy companies he is CEO and founder of Reliance Resources a WY natural gas producer. Alan is happily married with 3 children and lives in FL.

Philip Rynn, senior staff consultant, ABS

Philip Rynn is a Senior Staff Consultant at ABS. A veteran of 40 years with the organization, Rynn provides a leadership role in the classification of new gas technologies. He is the co-author of the recently published ABS Guidance Notes for Buildng and Classing Ships Carrying Compressed Natural Gas which is a first-of-a-kind document offfering industry guielines for safe alternative means of transporting natural gas.

Rynn is also known for his work in applying riskpbased assessment methodologies to offer clients and ABS Approval In Principal or AIP for concepts for wich no previous in-service exists. AIP provides an alternative to prescriptive classification Rules and is the first step in the regulatory and vessel certification process. Unique concepts for handling liquefied natural gas (LNG), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and compressed natural gas (CNG) have come to ABS for review over the past few years and most, if not all, have received review by Rynn.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York Maritime College and received his Alumni Association's Jose Femenia Distinguished Engineering Award for outstanding achievements in the field of engineering.

Anna Tonkovoch, manager, Technology Development Ctr, Velocys

Dr. Tonkovich leads Velocys' technology development efforts, and her team is responsible for developing all microchannel technology hardware. This team has made a number of substantial advances in microchannel component design, including reactors and exchangers. Additionally, the team has developed the fundamental designs and computational models for adapting the technology to the requirements of specific commercial applications. Lee Tonkovich received her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1992. She began microchannel reactor research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 1996 and was awarded an R&D 100 award in the field in 1999. In 2001, she was a founding team member for Velocys, which is a Battelle spin-out company focused on developing industrial applications of microchannel technology. She has more than a dozen papers and more than 50 patents published or pending in the field.

David Waller, Waller Marine

Mr. Waller began his career in the marine industry as an indentured apprentice with Vickers Armstrong, Shipbuilders, in England, where he earned the Queen's Medal for Shipbuilding and a degree in Naval Architecture & Shipbuilding from King's College, Durham University. As a young Vickers Naval Architect, he was fortunate to have involvement in the design of both military vessels for the Royal Navy such as the first UK nuclear submarine, HMS Dreadnought and commercial ships such as the passenger liner Queen Elizabeth II, oil tankers for Niachos and BP and the early LNG carrier, "Methane Princess".

Mr. Waller immigrated to the United States in the mid 60s initially working for Avondale Shipyards in New Orleans on the design of the Apollo Mission Guidance Ships before moving on to senior positions with marine consulting companies and finally assuming the position of VP Engineering with Marathon LeTourneau, Inc, the Houston based offshore drilling rig constructor. In 1974 Mr. Waller formed his own company, Waller Marine, Inc, which has operated continuously since in the design, construction and project management of vessels of every description, serving every aspect of the marine transportation and offshore oil and gas industries.

Using Waller Marine as a nucleus Mr. Waller has ventured into other associated operations, creating his own shipyard in South Texas during the early 80s where he built ocean tugs and barges and performed major ship conversions and repars. In the 90s he ventured into the development of barge mounted power projects and cogeneration plants both internationally in the Philippines, Ecuador, Nigeria and the Caribbean, as well as in the United States under the name of Polar Energy, Inc. He operates both organizations today, with focus on the integration of marine and gas to liquids technologies, modular energy facility design and construction, floating power plants and coal gasification for IGCC facilities and production of ultra clean fuels.