IHS Inc. Presents at 3rd Annual Houston Offshore Finance Forum, May-08-2013 10:05 AM. Venue: Royal Sonesta Hotel, Houston, Texas, United States. Speakers: Tom Kellock, Head of Offshore Rig Consulting.

IHS Inc. announced that Dr. Mei-Li Lin has been hired as Senior Director to help customers advance their Operational Excellence programs. She will support the ongoing advancement of Environment, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S) platform, helping customers achieve their Enterprise Sustainability Management goals. Her initial focus will be on helping organizations advance their Operational Excellence initiatives by improving their operational risk systems, processes and analytics. Previously, Lin served as Director, Research and Development for DuPont Sustainable Solutions and Senior Director of the Research & Statistical Services Group of the National Safety Council (NSC). Dr. Lin has served on several national advisory boards and committees, including the National Institute for Occupational Safety, Health Board of Scientific Counselors, Bureau of Transportation Statistics Advisory Committee, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s Injury and Violence Prevention and Control Initial Review Committee.

IHS announced several new experts have joined its chemicals team, as the company continues to expand the breadth and depth of its global chemicals market coverage, and its insight and strategic consulting services for the chemical industry. Jeffrey S. Plotkin, Ph.D. has joined IHS Chemical as vice president, training and education. Most recently, Plotkin was vice president at Nexant Inc., where he developed and led public training courses focusing on the global petrochemical industry. Adrian Beale has returned to IHS Chemical in the role of vice president of chemical industry research, with global responsibility for the specialty, inorganic and end-use markets division of the chemical insights group. Beale returned to IHS in 2013, after departing for a commercial role in the industry as a chemical derivatives trader for a year. Stephen Lewandowski has been hired as research director at IHS Chemical, with responsibility for ethylene coverage for the Americas and global light-olefins markets. He will provide thought leadership and market insight on the light-olefins markets relating to supply, demand, price and economics, including competitive dynamics and changing industry structural elements. Lewandowski comes to IHS from TOTAL Petrochemicals USA, where he served as senior manager for base chemicals. Joel Morales has joined IHS Chemical as director of polyolefins, where he will focus his initial efforts on the North American polypropylene market. Having worked most recently for Silgan Plastics, he will take an active role in guiding the global growth and development of the company's global plastics services. Nick Rados, Ph.D., has been hired by IHS Chemical as director of aromatics feedstocks. His primary responsibilities include developing short-and long-term aromatics feedstocks analysis, as well as analysis covering current and anticipated changes to refinery operations on downstream chemicals. Rados comes to IHS from ExxonMobil Chemical, where he most recently held the position of project planning and development manager. Chris McCloskey has joined the aromatics and fibers team as senior principal analyst. His primary responsibilities include market coverage and providing advisory services for the benzene, toluene and xylenes markets for the Americas. McCloskey will also provide global coordination for the aromatics and fibers team. He joins IHS from Solomon Associates, where he served as senior consultant. Michael Ravenscroft, Ph.D., has joined IHS Chemical Week as senior editor, based in Germany. Ravenscroft comes to IHS from Dow Chemical, where he was a leader in the company's business and market intelligence function. Ravenscroft previously worked for Dow as a research chemist and as editor of Wiley-VCH's Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.