Thames Valley (UK)
Committee
Umair Baig
Chair
Umair is a Principal Process Consultant at Wood plc in Reading, with over 20 years of global engineering experience.
Shashi Mawkin
Vice Chair
Shashi is a retired chartered chemical engineer with 41 years experience in the oil, gas and petrochemicals industry.
Haris Kayani
Secretary
Haris is a graduate process engineer at Hatch, working on delivering projects within the oil and gas industry.
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
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
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
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
Committee Member
Elaine is a Chartered process engineer working on fusion fuel cycle design and development at UKAEA.
Tendai Evans-Gavhure
Committee Member
Tendai is a process engineer at Wood PLC, working on projects within the oil and gas sector.
Liang Fang
Committee Member
Chartered engineer and project management professional (PMP) with over 17 years of diverse engineering experience across various industries.
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
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
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.