Aberdeen (UK)
Committee

Kerry O'Neill
Chair and Annual Dinner Coordinator
Kerry is a Fellow of IChemE with over 20 years of broad process engineering experience in upstream, downstream and manufacturing.

Azzam Younes
Vice Chair and Technical Events Coordinator
Azzam is a Chartered chemical engineer. He has circa 30 years’ experience of working in the process industries, mainly in oil and gas.

Ben Connell
Treasurer
Ben is a Chartered Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in engineering, direct operations and core business process development.

David Wilkinson
Secretary (Sharing Role)
David is a senior reservoir engineer with more than 20 years of varied experience with an operator (BP) and subsequently an energy service company (LR Senergy).

Ross Sheldon
Secretary (Sharing Role)
Ross is a graduate process engineer with Worley. His current role involves completing process design deliverables and projects for different asset operators within the energy industry.

Rory Davin
Committee Events and Social Events Coordinator
Rory is an award winning Chartered lead process engineer with over 13 years experience.

Kathryn Conlon
Annual Seminar Coordinator
Kathryn is a senior process engineering consultant working in energy consultancy with experience in the UK and internationally.

Shreya Tripathi
Schools Liaison Coordinator
Shreya joined Petrofac’s graduate programme in 2019 and went on to become a STEM ambassador with IChemE.

Brendan Smith
Early Careers Coordinator
Brendan is an early career process safety engineer working towards professional chartership.

Peter Buchan
Mentoring Coordinator
Peter is a Chartered chemical engineer with over 25 years’ experience in a variety of hazardous industries, including 17 years of oil and gas operator experience.

Alasdair Gray
Communications & Webmaster
Alasdair is an experienced senior process safety engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the oil, gas and energy industry.

Caroline Laurenson
Committee Member
Caroline is a Fellow of IChemE with over 17 years’ experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, covering the full asset lifecycle from conceptual, front end design, detailed design, operations and decommissioning.

Maryam Gharebaghi
Committee Member
Maryam is a Chartered process engineer with over 12 years of experience in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries.

Patricia Fleitas
Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Patricia is a chemical engineer with an MSc in oil and gas engineering from the University of Aberdeen and over 7 years of experience in the oil and gas industry (Wood Group and ADIL).

Nurul Hoque Ali
Committee Member
Nurul is a Team Leader and a Technical Authority with significant experience of technical leadership within major oil and gas companies and contractors. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of IChemE.

Nick Parker
Schools Liason Coordinator
Nick is a process engineer with over 30 years of operational and project management experience with Marathon Oil and Exxon Chemicals in the UK, US and at other international locations.