Mark Anderson
President and CEO, Pro Mach
Mark has more than 20 years experience in global manufacturing.  He provides strategic leadership for Pro Mach and manages overall operations for Pro Mach’s three business units and related divisions: Primary Packaging, End-of-Line Packaging, and Identification and Tracking.  He also guides Pro Mach’s initiatives for delivering excellence in product development, customer service, and distribution.  Before joining Pro Mach, Mark served as Vice President and General Manager of Tyler Refrigeration, a division of Carrier Corporation, where he continually improved operations through lean manufacturing processes.  Before that he served as Vice President of Operations for Cooper Crouse-Hinds.  Mark began his career as a manufacturing and systems engineer at Caterpillar where he held several senior engineering and management positions in the electrical products and switchgear industries.

Sudipta Bhattacharya
President and CEO, Invensys Operations Management
Sudipta is responsible for the combined day-to-day operations of Invensys Process Systems, Wonderware, and Eurotherm.  He joined Invensys as President of Wonderware in September 2007.  Prior to joining Wonderware, Sudipta served as Sr. Vice President of Global Solutions at SAP AG for supply chain, manufacturing, and product lifecycle applications.  In that role, he was responsible for driving and executing the product strategy for three of SAP’s core solutions. Before joining SAP in January 2002, he worked at i2 Technologies in its strategic services group where he held a strategy consulting role that involved advising company executives on supply chain policies.  Prior to i2, he worked in manufacturing for 10 years at various Tata Group companies in India.

Rahul Bhojani
Principal Process Control Technology Specialist, Bayer Business and Technology Services
Rahul is a Principal Engineer working for Bayer since 2000.  He is responsible for the instrumentation, electrical, and control systems portion of large capital projects.  Rahul also serves as a consultant within Bayer providing expertise in the selection, design, implementation, and operation of process control, industrial automation, and safety instrumented systems.  Prior to Bayer, he worked for 3 years as an Industrial Automation and Process Control Engineer for Siemens in India.  He is a voting member on ISA100 Committee on Wireless Systems in Automation and the ISA99 Committee on Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security.

Christian Czauderna
Head of Global Efficiency Programs, Bayer MaterialScience
Christian began his career as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Power Systems and Power Economics at Aachen University.  He earned a PhD degree in 2000 in the issue of reliability in electrical supply systems.  From 2001 to 2004, Christian was a staff employee at the Energy Department of Bayer AG.  From 2005 to 2007, he was Head of Electricity Supply of Bayer Chempark Dormagen at Bayer Industry Services.  In 2007, he became Head of the Asset Management and Network Economics Department at CURRENTA GmbH & OHG (a joint venture of Bayer and Lanxess).  He has been in his current position at Bayer MaterialScience since October 2008.

Jim Davis
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Technology & CIO, UCLA
Jim is the Associate Vice Chancellor Information Technology & CIO and a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA.  In chemical engineering, Jim’s research is in the area of data analysis, decision support, intelligent systems, and fault-tolerant/networked based control.  He is currently PI on a national initiative for Smart Process Manufacturing and he serves on the Executive Board of the National Programming Committee for AIChE.  In his Associate Vice Chancellor position, Jim has broad responsibility for university-wide IT technology planning, policy, investment, and deployment.  He is also responsible for UCLA’s research and education cyberinfrastructure, including grid and high performance computing and communications strategy and operations.

Ronaldo de Magalhães
Manager, Automation Technology, Instrumentation and Electric, Petrobras
Ronaldo is responsible for automation, instrumentation, and electrical areas of the 11 Petrobras Refinery business units.  His career began in 1979 as an automation engineer in REPAR Refinery’s maintenance division.  In 1988, he was transferred to company headquarters to become part of the automation team, working on different SDCD’s implementation projects in all refineries, and coordinating in particular, the implementation of REPAR Refinery’s system.

Craig Dupler
Technical Fellow, Boeing
Craig has been with Boeing for over 25 years. He specializes in strategic planning of core network services in the Information Technology organization.  His current projects include the IT architecture for supporting SCADA systems, Network Location Services (NLS) or RTLS, applying the principles of lean to IT product and service definition, and several long range IT strategic planning issues.

David Frazee
Technical Director, Digital Oral Care Research & Development Lab, 3M
David joined 3M in 2005 as the Technical Director of the Software, Electronic & Mechanical Systems Research Laboratory.  The lab provides R&D technology and services in numerous engineering disciplines, including electronics, software, mechanical, industrial design, vision science, predictive engineering, rapid prototyping, and systems and solutions architecture.  He was recently named Director of R&D in a new 3M business unit focusing on the rapidly growing market in digital dentistry.  David started his career at GE Medical Systems in 1982 in CT systems and products as a software developer, implementing proprietary signal processing algorithms for CT image reconstruction, as well as new 3D visualization applications.  In 1994, he was named leader of Global Software Applications and led the global imaging software platform and medical workstation development teams.  David joined Vital Images, Inc. in 1999 as Vice President of Engineering, and led its technology organization to profitable growth as an advanced medical imaging visualization company.

Thomas Lange
Director Modeling & Simulation, Global Capability Organization R&D, Procter & Gamble
Tom leads P&G’s modeling and simulation efforts ranging from computational chemistry, computer aided engineering (CAE) to process, reliability, and supply chain analysis.  He joined Procter & Gamble in 1978 as a Product Technical Engineer and has spent his nearly 30 year career modeling and simulating products and production systems.  In 1994, Tom was recognized with a PRISM award (Professional Recognition of Individual Sustained Mastery), P&G's highest technical recognition award for engineering.  In 1998, he was appointed Associate Director for Computer Aided Engineering in Baby Care, and Reliability Engineering responsibilities for all P&G paper goods including Always, Charmin, and Bounty. In 2004, he was appointed Director, Modeling & Simulation in Corporate R&D.  In 2008 he was named Director, Modeling & Simulation Global Capability Organization, R&D.

Betty Naylor-McDevitt
Director DCS Business, Invensys Process Systems
Betty recently celebrated her 36th anniversary with Invensys Process Systems (IPS).  Her career at IPS began as an applications engineer, responsible for the implementation, testing, and startup of many large client projects for the chemical, oil, and gas industries.  She was later Development Manager for the introduction of the I/A Series DCS system.  At present, Betty manages the Marketing division for the Invensys Process Systems DCS Business.

Keith Nosbusch
Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Automation
Keith was appointed CEO in February 2004.  He is also the chairman of the company’s board of directors.  Prior to this appointment, Keith served as President of Rockwell Automation Control Systems and an officer of the corporation, positions he held since November 1998. He previously served as Sr. Vice President for the Control and Information Group, where he was responsible for the launching of LogixTM, Rockwell Automation’s premier integrated control and information platform.  Keith's career began in 1974 when he joined Allen-Bradley as an application engineer, and since then he has had numerous positions of increasing responsibility.

James Porter
Chief Engineer and Vice President, Engineering and Operations (Retired), DuPont
Jim joined DuPont in 1966 as a chemical engineer.  He was named Vice President of Engineering in 1996 and became Vice President of Safety, Health & Environment and Engineering in 2004.  He assumed the position of Chief Engineer and Vice President in 2006 until his retirement in September 2008.  Jim has served as chair for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and was the 2004 recipient of CII's Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence.  He is a member of several Boards of Directors and is on the Argonne National Laboratory Board of Governors.  Jim now provides consulting services to help other companies make significant and sustainable improvements in workplace safety, process safety management, capital effectiveness, and operations productivity.

Patrick Reynolds
Vice President/Editor, Packaging World
Pat has been a packaging journalist since 1983.  He was with the small group who launched Packaging World in 1993, and he was named Vice President and Editor of the magazine in 2002.  Pat's career has taken him to countless packaging operations, technical conferences, and converting plants, not only across the US but internationally as well.

Tariq Samad
Corporate Fellow, Honeywell Automation and Control Systems
Tariq's career with Honeywell has spanned 23 years, during which time he has contributed to automation and control technology developments for applications in the process industries, building management, unmanned aircraft, electric power systems, automotive engines, and clean energy.  His research interests relate broadly to automation, intelligence, and autonomy for complex engineering systems.  He is a Honeywell Star Inventor with 16 patents awarded and others pending.  Tariq is the 2009 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.  He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine from 1998 to 2003 and is currently on the editorial boards of Control Engineering Progress and the new Journal of Mind Theory.  He also serves as a member representative on the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute and he is a member of the Governing Board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel.

Michael Sarli
Plant Automation Technology Program Leader, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Mike manages the Plant Automation technology portfolio, including the R&D program, broad deployment strategies for new technology, intellectual property management, and relationship management with major automation technology providers.  Prior to his current assignment, he held a number of technical, supervisory, and management positions within ExxonMobil Research & Engineering and several of its predecessors since joining Mobil in 1975.  He holds over 30 U.S. Patents in the area of petroleum refining and has authored or co-authored eight technical papers on various aspects of refining technology.

Patrick Schweitzer
Measurement and Automation Projects, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering
Patrick currently leads a team for special projects centering around wireless and instrument diagnostics.  He has 30 years of industrial experience ranging from precious metals, refining, and chemicals to downstream oil & gas refining.  Prior to joining ExxonMobil, he was Business Development Manager for Intergraph Corporation and Senior Control Systems Engineer for KBR.  He is Co-Chair of ISA100 Wireless Technologies and a non-supplier voting representative to the Board of WCI.

Steven Sonnenberg
President, Emerson Process Management & Executive Vice President, Emerson
Steve leads Emerson’s process management business.  He was appointed as Emerson Executive Vice President and the Business Leader of Emerson Process Management in October 2008.  Steve joined Emerson in 1979 as a marketing analyst with its Brooks Instrument division.  His career progressed rapidly as he assumed a number of marketing and general management positions in Germany, London, and Asia Pacific.  In 2000, Steve was appointed President of Emerson Process Management Asia Pacific, and in 2002 he was appointed President of Emerson’s Rosemount division.  During his tenure, he has also been responsible for several Emerson acquisitions including Rosemount TankRadar (formerly Saab Marine), Mobrey, Damcos, and Metran.

Bruce Taylor
Manager Business Process Integration, Suncor Energy
Bruce is a senior management professional with more than 35 years of experience in delivering business benefits through the innovation of leading edge information technologies in the real-time process manufacturing industry.  He joined Suncor in 2006 to manage their integrated ERP deployment after which he accepted an expanded leadership role in Suncor’s Operational Excellence organization.  Bruce’s experience spans numerous global industries in which he has architected and implemented a broad set of complex integrated business and operations applications.  He is an active member of the NPRA Process Automation and Decision Support Committee, the Open O&M/MIMOSA Owner Operator Leadership Committee, and the MESA Process Industries SIG.

Hartmut Wuttig
Business Unit Manager Oil, Gas, & Petrochem, Process Automation Division, ABB
Hartmut joined ABB in 1998.  Since then he has held a variety of management positions including Business Unit Manager for Chem/Pharma, Division Technology Manager, and R&D Manager for Automation Systems.  Prior to joining ABB, he worked for Elsag Bailey in a variety of leadership roles including product development and marketing.  He was also General Manager of the Automation Systems Business of Hartmann & Braun. He began his career as a commissioning engineer for power plant control systems.