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. Read more >>

Azzam Younes
Vice Chair
Dr Azzam Younes is a Chartered Chemical Engineer. He has circa 30 years’ experience of working in the process industries, mainly in Oil and Gas. Read more >>

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

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). Read more >>

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. Read more >>

Rory Davin
Committee Events and Social Events Coordinator
Rory is an award winning Chartered, Lead Process Engineer with over 13 years experience. Read more >>

Malvika Nagarkoti
Technical Events Coordinator
Malvika is a reservoir engineer with over 12 years of oil and gas industry experience. Read more >>

Kathryn Conlon
Annual Seminar Coordinator
Kathryn is a Senior Process Engineering Consultant working in energy consultancy with experience in the UK and internationally. Read more >>

Shreya Tripathi
Schools Liaison Coordinator
Shreya joined Petrofac’s graduate programme in 2019 and went on to become a STEM ambassador with the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Read more >>

Brendan Smith
Young Members Coordinator
Brendan is an early career Process Safety Engineer working towards professional chartership. Read more >>

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. Read more >>

Alasdair Gray
Communications Focal Point & Webmaster
Alasdair is an experienced Senior Process Safety Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the oil, gas and energy industry. Read more >>

Jim O'Donnell
Committee Member
Jim is an oil and gas industry professional with over 30 years of experience covering all aspects of the industry from chemical engineering research projects to production operations and asset management. Read more >>

Caroline Laurenson
Committee Member
Caroline Laurenson is a Fellow of the 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. Read more >>

Maryam Gharebaghi
Committee Member
Maryam is a Chartered Process Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Read more >>

Patricia Fleitas
Committee Member
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). Read more >>

Jennifer McCallum
Committee Member
Jennifer is Production and Engineering Team Lead at Ithaca Energy. She obtained a MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and is a Chartered Engineer (IChemE).

Laura Ong
Committee Member
Laura obtained an MEng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Aberdeen and is currently studying for an MSc in Safety and Reliability Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. Read more >>

Ksenia Hancock
Committee Member
Ksenia is a Graduate Product Manager at Lucideon, based in Banbury, England. Read more >>

Ruya Al Kharusi
Committee Member
Ruya is an MEng Chemical Engineering student (5th year) at the University of Aberdeen and a past President of the Chemical Engineering Society at the University of Aberdeen. Read more >>

Grainne Patton
Diversity
Grainne is a passionate and dedicated Chartered Engineer with over 20 years of oilfield experience in production engineering and asset leadership roles. Read more >>

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. Read more >>

Nick Parker
Committee Member
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. Read more >>