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Denise Hamsher
Denise Hamsher
Director Planning - Major Projects
Enbridge Energy Company Inc.

Denise Hamsher works in Enbridge Energy Company’s Major Projects business unit –established when Enbridge recently undertook over $12 billion of pipeline expansions. Formerly with En... [ view bio ]

Jeff C. Wright
Jeff C. Wright
Director, Office of Energy Projects (OEP), Infrastructure Policy Group
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

Mr. Wright is the Director of the Office of Energy Projects and has been a member of the Office of Energy Projects since its inception in 2000. This Office is responsible for the licensing, safet... [ view bio ]

John A. Jacobi, P.E.
John A. Jacobi, P.E.
Community Assistance/Technical Services (CATS) Manager, SW Region
Office of Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA)

John Jacobi joined the Office of Pipeline Safety, Southwest Region in 2003 with over 20 years of natural gas and liquids pipeline experience. A professional engineer (TX) and licensed attorney (... [ view bio ]

Andrew J. Black
Andrew J. Black
President and CEO
American Association of Oil Pipelines (AOPL)

Andy Black became President and CEO of AOPL in September 2009. He leads outreach to Congress, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), other government ... [ view bio ]

Cliff Johnson
Cliff Johnson
President
Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

Cliff Johnson has served as President since September 2010. Prior to coming to PRCI, Mr. Johnson served 13 years at NACE International, where he has held a variety of positions during his career.... [ view bio ]

Bob S. Purgason
Bob S. Purgason
Chief Operating Officer
Chesapeake Midstream Partners

Robert S. Purgason serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P. (CMP), the 50-50 partnership between Global Infrastructure Partners, L.P., and Chesapeake Energy C... [ view bio ]

David Porter
David Porter
Commissioner
Railroad Commission of Texas

On November 2, 2010, David J. Porter was elected to serve a six-year term as a Texas Railroad Commissioner. He won nearly sixty percent of the vote in that election. Before taking office, Com... [ view bio ]

Byron Smith
Byron Smith
Director of Environmental Safety and Technical Training, Gas Operations
CenterPoint Energy

Byron Smith has over 30 years of experience as a Safety and Environmental professional. He is a Certified Safety Professional. Byron is an advocate of leadership’s role in safety, and emp... [ view bio ]

Bob Kipp
Bob Kipp
President
Common Ground Alliance

Robert Kipp has served as President of the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) since the organizations inception in 2001. Since 2001, the CGA has grown to represent more than 1400 national members and ... [ view bio ]

Phil Bennett
Phil Bennett
Senior Managing Counsel, Operations Safety
American Gas Association (AGA)

Mr. Bennett is senior managing counsel for the American Gas Association. His primary areas of responsibility are regulatory and legislative issues affecting pipeline safety and employee safety. ... [ view bio ]

Charles Schwager
Charles Schwager
VP, Chief Compliance Officer & Asst General Counsel
Kinder Morgan

Charles Schwager is the Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Assistant General Counsel for the Kinder Morgan Natural Gas Pipelines Group. Mr. Schwager is responsible for managing, evaluat... [ view bio ]

Les Cherwenuk
Les Cherwenuk
Director, Pipeline Development and Construction
TransCanada Pipelines

Les Cherwenuk has over 30-years with TransCanada Pipelines and a broad experience in engineering, project management, system design, business development, regulatory, and field operations. Les w... [ view bio ]

Mark Piazza
Mark Piazza
Senior Program Manager, Operations and Integrity
Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI)

Mark Piazza joined PRCI in 2008 as a Senior Program Manager. He is leading PRCI’s Operations & Integrity Technical Committee for Pipeline Programs. Prior to joining PRCI, Mark held posi... [ view bio ]

Adrian Banica
Adrian Banica
President
Synodon Inc.

Mr. Adrian Banica is the Founder and President of Synodon Inc., an advanced remote sensing company. He is the one of the main architects of the realSens gas sensing application. Over the last 15 ... [ view bio ]

Dr. J. Malcolm Gray
Dr. J. Malcolm Gray
President
ITI International

Dr. J. Malcolm Gray is an internationally acknowledged expert in the metallurgy, manufacture, welding and application of microalloyed (HSLA) steels. He has authored over 100 publications covering... [ view bio ]

Brian S. Laing
Brian S. Laing
President and Chief Operating Officer, Pipeline and Automatic Welding Group
CRC-Evans Pipeline International

Andreas Rudl
Andreas Rudl
Vice President Sales
iTAC Software AG

Andreas Rudl completed his education in Industrial Engineering (Dipl.-Wirtsch-Ing.) in 1995 at the FH Gießen-Friedberg. He has over 15 years experience in logistics and automation in the dis... [ view bio ]

Michael Smith
Michael Smith
President
Smith LaRock Architecture P.C.

Michael Smith is the President | Principal Architect of Smith LaRock Architecture P.C. Mr. Smith has been involved in designing Command & Control Buildings, Control Suites, and Control Room ... [ view bio ]

Ted Anderson
Ted Anderson
Chief Technology Officer
Quest Integrity Group LLC

Dr. Anderson is a world-renown expert in fracture mechanics and fitness-for-service methods. He is the author of a best-selling book on fracture mechanics, which has been adopted as a required te... [ view bio ]

Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
Vice President, Pipeline and Chemical Services
Greene's Energy Group

Tom Sawyer is the Vice President of Pipeline and Chemical Services for Greene’s Energy Group, LLC. He has been with GEG since 2004 and has held the VP roles of International Business, Mark... [ view bio ]

Dane Lee Broussard
Dane Lee Broussard
President
Flexpipe Systems

Dane joined Flexpipe Systems in July 2010. Dane comes most recently from Tetra Technologies - Offshore Services Division where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager. Dane w... [ view bio ]

Trent Oglesby
Trent Oglesby
Chief Executive Officer
Percheron Acquisitions, LLC

Trent Oglesby is currently the CEO and Managing Partner of Percheron Acquisitions LLC, a national, integrated Right-Of-Way Service Company. He has achieved this position after serving at ever in... [ view bio ]

Yogesh Khandelwal
Yogesh Khandelwal
Chief Executive Officer
geoAMPS LLC

As Chief Executive Officer of geoAMPS, LLC, Yogesh is an engineer with a diverse background in technology across various industries. Yogesh has experience with implementing six-sigma and lean pra... [ view bio ]

Dr. Peter Bullemer
Dr. Peter Bullemer
Senior Partner
Human Centered Solutions LLP

Dr. Bullemer is a senior partner with Human Centered Solutions, LLP (HCS). HCS is a North American consulting services company with expertise in applying innovative, proven solutions that improve... [ view bio ]

Glenn Vlass
Glenn Vlass
Co-Founder and Vice President
CartoPac International

Glenn worked as an exploration geologist performing field surveys in Colorado, Wyoming and Alaska. In 2000, he formed CartoPac with Scott Crouch and has served primarily in sales and business man... [ view bio ]

Shankar Rajagopalan
Shankar Rajagopalan
Vice President of Technology, New Product Development
CRC-Evans Automatic Welding

Shankar Rajagopalan, Vice President of Technology, New Product Development at CRC-Evans Automatic Welding, has served as an integral member of CRC-Evans for over 20 years. Before joining CRC-Evan... [ view bio ]

Thomas Beuker
Thomas Beuker
Corporate Marketing Pipelines
ROSEN

Thomas Beuker has more than 19 years experience in developing pipeline inspection solutions. Currently he is the Marketing Manager at ROSEN responsible for the business segment pipelines, Thomas ... [ view bio ]