ICIS training
Petrochemicals: Part I & II
Philadelphia
16th - 17th September 2009, Philadelphia, United States
Petrochemicals: Part I & II
Philadelphia
16th - 17th September 2009, Philadelphia, United States
Peter Taffe
Intelligence Editor
Intelligence Editor
ICIS news
Peter Taffe has 30 years of experience in technical and business publishing as well as industrial public relations. He is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Leeds in Britain. He has worked as a journalist and an editor for Process Engineering, Chemical Age, Processing, Asian Chemical News and European Chemical News with his last position as Deputy Editor for ECN.
Peter Taffe has 30 years of experience in technical and business publishing as well as industrial public relations. He is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of Leeds in Britain. He has worked as a journalist and an editor for Process Engineering, Chemical Age, Processing, Asian Chemical News and European Chemical News with his last position as Deputy Editor for ECN.
Peter’s present position is Intelligence Editor for ICIS, a 24-hour news and information service delivered via the internet to the chemical industry. He is in charge of the database operations of ICIS including the Chemical and Company Intelligence reports. He is also responsible for third party content contained and offered by ICIS.
Nigel Davis
Insight Editor
ICIS
Nigel is Insight editor with ICIS news the 24-hour online chemicals news service and comments on a daily basis on the industry, on individual company strategies and the financial performance of the chemical majors. He is chemist by training, and has written about the chemical industry in many publications since 1979, including news and company magazines, encyclopaedias and specialist reports. For 13 years he wrote and edited Chemical Insight. Nigel talks regularly at industry conferences and other events and presents industry topics to the financial community. He helps European blue chip companies with their chemicals and petrochemicals training.
Nigel Davis
Insight Editor
ICIS
Nigel is Insight editor with ICIS news the 24-hour online chemicals news service and comments on a daily basis on the industry, on individual company strategies and the financial performance of the chemical majors. He is chemist by training, and has written about the chemical industry in many publications since 1979, including news and company magazines, encyclopaedias and specialist reports. For 13 years he wrote and edited Chemical Insight. Nigel talks regularly at industry conferences and other events and presents industry topics to the financial community. He helps European blue chip companies with their chemicals and petrochemicals training.
Nigel is a long-standing Council member of the European Chemical Marketing and Strategy Association (ECMSA) and was for four years until November 2002 ECMSA president. Currently, he is the association’s treasurer. As president, Nigel helped ECMSA establish and develop its far-reaching Scenarios 2010 project. Scenarios 2010 has looked into the future for the chemicals industry generally and latterly focused on scenarios building for petrochemicals, specialties and R&D.
Nigel sat on the Markets Group of the UK Chemicals Innovation and Growth Team (CIGT) in 2002 and on the on the Futures Group of the UK Chemistry Leadership Council. The CIGT was set up by the British government in December 2001 to provide a ‘road map’ for the sector. The Chemistry Leadership Council has most recently published a vision for the sustainable production and use of chemicals.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and through the RSA takes a general interest in industry and business matters.
Jeff Plotkin
Vice President, Training & PERP Program
Nexant Inc.
Jeffrey Plotkin is Vice President of Nexant ChemSystems Training Programs and Process Evaluation/Research Planning (PERP) program.
Jeff is co-editor of the American Chemical Society's Patent Watch website at Chemistry.org, co-author of "Industrial Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition” (Wiley Interscience), and is a frequent contributor of technology-oriented articles to various industry trade publications). Jeff holds more than thirty U.S. patents and is author of 25 publications in peer reviewed academic journals.
Jeff’s prior work experience with ISP (formerly GAF) and Exxon Chemicals provided an excellent background for his interests in both commodity and specialty chemicals from both a technology and marketing perspective.
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.
