Thames Valley (UK)

Committee

Umair Baig

Umair Baig

Chair

Umair is a Principal Process Consultant at Wood plc in Reading, with over 20 years of global engineering experience.

Shashi Mawkin

Shashi Mawkin

Vice Chair

Shashi is a retired chartered chemical engineer with 41 years experience in the oil, gas and petrochemicals industry.

Haris Kayani

Haris Kayani

Secretary

Haris is a graduate process engineer at Hatch, working on delivering projects within the oil and gas industry.

Shwashwata Dey

Shwashwata Dey

Treasurer

Shwashwata has been working with Honeywell for last 14 years developing simulation solution catering to upstream oil and gas, refinery and petrochemical processes.

Simisola Onalaja

Simisola Onalaja

Essay Prize Organiser

Simisola is a Chartered process engineer with over 10 years of experience in engineering design (conceptual, front-end and detailed) in the chemicals and oil and energy sectors.

Haris Sufi

Haris Sufi

Event Organiser

Haris is a senior process engineer at Wood Plc with experience supporting clients in the energy transition, oil and gas, refining and petrochemical sectors on brownfield and greenfield projects across the globe.

Jack Acers

Jack Acers

Committee Member

Chartered chemical engineer with 10 years of experience, working as a lead engineer on novel aspects of fusion power plant designs at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in Culham.

Elaine Coleman

Elaine Coleman

Committee Member

Elaine is a Chartered process engineer working on fusion fuel cycle design and development at UKAEA.

Tendai Evans-Gavhure

Tendai Evans-Gavhure

Committee Member

Tendai is a process engineer at Wood PLC, working on projects within the oil and gas sector.

Liang Fang

Liang Fang

Committee Member

Chartered engineer and project management professional (PMP) with over 17 years of diverse engineering experience across various industries.

Sanjeev Gajjela

Sanjeev Gajjela

Committee member

Sanjeev is a seasoned professional with over two decades of experience in the renewable energy sector, specialising in technology development, process optimization, and project execution.

Rob Peeling

Rob Peeling

Committee Member

Rob works for a not-for-profit company Britest Ltd., helping clients in the pharmaceutical and fine chemical sectors with process understanding through technical facilitation and training.

Kwan Whateley

Kwan Whateley

Committee Member

Kwan is a project process manager at Wood and a chartered process engineer with over 20 years of experience in process engineering, having worked on a variety of onshore projects and offshore facilities.