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J. Thomas Beck
President & Chief Executive Officer
Tom Beck founded SHEC (Canada) in 1996 and has worked in all
areas of the company from design, fabrication, testing,
marketing and management.
Prior to starting SHEC, Mr. Beck was President of Beck
Technology Incorporated for 14 years, a company that developed
and manufactured various products for other firms. These
included electronic, software, mechanical, robotics and energy
systems. Beck Technology later developed and manufactured
automation systems that it sold to a global market.
Prior to this, Mr. Beck worked for SaskTel for two years as a
design engineer in the PABX (Private Automatic Business
Exchange) and special services division. Prior to this, he
worked for CNCP Telecommunications for about two years as a
technician responsible for diagnosis of a microwave
communications link covering a number of provinces in Canada
and for maintaining the Telex central switching network and
local data communications for Regina. Prior to this, Mr. Beck
worked for Solar Heating Limited for one year in the capacity
of a design engineer and had developed test systems and
performed testing for vertical axis wind turbines. He also
developed automated test and control systems for solar heating
systems.
Mr. Beck attended DeVry Technical Institute, and graduated in
1977 with a diploma in Electronics and Computer Controls.
Tom received a High Tech Entrepreneur Award for Innovation and
Scientific Breakthrough from KPMG Peat Marwick Thorne in 1990,
and was nominated by BMO Nesbitt Burns for Canadian
Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000.
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Keith N. Rogers
Chief Operating Officer
Keith grew up in Lake Jackson, Texas. Keith holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State
University (1978) and a Master of Science degree in Chemical
Engineering from Texas A&M University (1979).
Keith has held leadership and senior management positions with
DuPont, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), and Lucite
International. His experience includes senior management
positions in Sales, Manufacturing, Research & Development,
Product Development, Mergers & Acquisitions and more. He
has personally led several large organizations including teams
from around the world and has established a consistent track
record of delivering outstanding results.
As the President of Expert Leadership Solutions, LLC, Keith
worked with clients to share his 25 years of leadership
knowledge and experience to help them dramatically improve
their results.
Keith is an active member of the Beaumont Rotary Club and the
Greater Beaumont Chamber of Commerce. He currently lives and
works in Beaumont Texas with his wife, Janet and their two
children, William and Elizabeth.
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Terry Stott
Senior VP Corporate Development
Terry Stott has been an active member in SHEC's management since
2006. Upon his joining SHEC's team, Mr. Stott was Quality
Manager as well as heavily involved with market development.
Mr. Stott previously worked for SaskPower, the only electric
utility provider for the Province of Saskatchewan in the
Chemistry and Environmental Management Departments. He was
integral in implementing ISO 14000, Environment Management
certification for the Crown Corporation Utility Company.
He also implemented ISO 14000 for ATCO Power/SPI and developed
and trained chemical operations staff for a new power plant in
Saskatoon Canada. Prior to this, Mr. Stott worked for the
Provincial Department of Public Health at the Provincial
Laboratories and worked extensively with the Department of the
Environment while there. Mr. Stott has also been trained as an
internal auditor for ISO 9001-2000, Quality Management.
He is presently involved in marketing SHEC's technology, mainly
in North America, but is also introducing the technology
worldwide. He is presently the Senior Vice President of
Corporate Development for SHEC Energy Corporation.
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Rick Williams
Sr. VP Commercial Development, General Counsel
Rick has performed commercial development services through the
Law Offices of Rick Williams for over 10 years
Commercial Development Highlights
Mr. Williams successfully negotiated the purchase of an
abandoned Wal-Mart facility for the City of Nederland Texas
without deed restrictions.
Mr. Williams worked with the City of Port Neches Texas
representatives to close the ISP Elastometors purchase of the
Ameripol Synpol facility retaining a chemical manufacturing
facility and saving/creating 300 jobs.
Mr. Williams created and established the first business recovery
loan program after hurricane Rita which was copied and utilized
by Jefferson County and by the Governors office of the State of
Texas.
Mr. Williams successfully negotiated the locating of Eastman
Chemical Company's new $1.6 Billion gasification facility in
Beaumont, Jefferson County Texas. Several cities and states
along the Gulf Coast were competing for this project.
Mr. Williams successfully testified before the state legislature
to return the local control of economic development projects
back to the individual cities instead of being delegated from
Austin.
As Executive Director of the Nederland EDC, Mr. Williams
successfully negotiated the commercialization of hundreds of
millions of dollars of capital investment in the city creating
over 1,200 jobs.
Mr. Williams lead the first successful election in the State of
Texas to change the mixed beverages for restaurant purposes
law.
Education
- Economic Development Institute Graduate University of
Oklahoma 2003
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, South Texas College of Law
1994
- State Certified Mediator, South Texas College of Law
1993
- B A Applied Arts and Sciences, Lamar University 1991
Personal
Rick is married to Amy and they have two children and four
grandchildren.
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Dr. Andy Ananthakrishnan
Sr. VP Strategic Planning and Development
Andy originally hails from India, growing up in Bombay and
graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
from Bombay University (1960). He came to the US in 1961 and
completed an M.S. (ChE) from Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL (1962), a PhD (ChE) from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
(1965) and an MBA from University of Connecticut (1975).
After a year of teaching Chemical Engineering at Clarkson
University, Potsdam, NY (1966), Andy worked the next 42 years
with DuPont (1966-1993), Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
(1993-1999), Ineos Acrylics (1999-2002) and Lucite
International Inc (2002-2008) which spanned extensive
leadership and management positions in R&D, Manufacturing,
Market/Business Development, Strategic Planning and Supply
Chain functions.
His experiences include:
- Leading the development of new generations of Teflon
Non Stick Coatings
- Managing the Engineering Division of Coatings and
Finishes Department
- Managing the building of a $200 million world scale
chemical plant
- Negotiating the acquisition of a Composites business
for DuPont
- Leading the development and continuously updating of
Global Strategic Plans for ICI Acrylics, Ineos Acrylics
and Lucite International Inc.
- Developing and Managing a number of Licensing, Joint
Ventures and Acquisitions/Divestiture arrangements
including negotiating a complex Acquisition deal
- Streamlining Supply Chain Organization
- Serving as an active member of the Board of Directors
for ICI Acrylics (Americas), Ineos Acrylics (Americas),
and Lucite International (Americas).
Since his retirement from Lucite in early 2008, Andy continues
to consult for Lucite, does part time teaching at Rutgers
University (Camden, NJ campus), and is active in the Alumni
Associations of Bombay University Dept. of Chem. Tech.
(President) and Northwestern University.
Andy and his wife, Vasantha, split their time between their
homes in Moorestown, NJ and Boston, MA, where his two daughters
and their two grandsons live.
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Tony Wisenbaker
VP, Operations
Tony graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical
Engineering from Lamar University in 1992. He has 17 years of
Manufacturing Experience in the Petrochemicals industry with
DuPont, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Ineos Acrylics and
Lucite International Inc. He has held several Engineering and
Senior leadership positions within these companies and has a
proven track record of success throughout his career.
His experiences include design, construction and startup of new
plants, optimization and maintenance of existing plants,
corporate mergers and acquisitions, capital project management,
deal structuring and contract negotiations, organizational
efficiency and restructuring, Manufacturing and Maintenance
Excellence Programs, customer relationship development and
more.
Prior to joining SHEC, he was Site Manager of a large industrial
park complex, with over 500 employees and four different tenant
companies, where he was responsible for two world scale
manufacturing units, as well as all of the services and
utilities units on the complex.
Tony is the President of Wisenbaker Enterprises, LLC, and works
with companies and organizations to help them improve their
viability and sustainability in order to meet the changing
environment of the global world we live in today.
He currently lives and works in Beaumont Texas, with his wife
Cheryl.
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