J. Thomas Beck
President & CEO

Keith N. Rogers
COO

Terry Stott
Senior VP, Corporate Development

Rick Williams
Sr. VP Commercial Development,
General Counsel

Dr. Andy Ananthakrishnan
Sr. VP Strategic Planning and Development

Tony Wisenbaker
VP, Operations

About SHEC » Management Team

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.