Dr. Thorsten Gantevoort
Dr. Thorsten Gantevoort
Senior Director Technology, Head of Regional Segment A-FS, Head of Certification Body, Inspection Body and Test Lab at TUV Rheinland | Germany

Thorsten Gantevoort has been renowned for his expertise in the field of safety of machines and plants for many years, with more than 30 presentations on conferences globally and publication on multiple professional journals. He also holds various workshops and trainings worldwide regarding the topic of Functional Safety and the standards EN 954-1, IEC 61508, 

Dr. Foo Swee Cheng
Dr. Foo Swee Cheng
Educator at National University of Singapore | Singapore

Dr. Foo Swee Cheng is currently an Academic Staff (Educator) of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has a keen interest and strong records in research topics related to health and safety. Education PhD (Chem. Eng.) Queensland, 1977 MSc (Ind. Hyg.) Cincinnati, 1988 MEng (Ind. Eng.) AIT, 1972 BSc 

Assoc. Prof. Lim Kok Hwa
Assoc. Prof. Lim Kok Hwa
Deputy Cluster Director & Programme Director at Singapore Institute of Technology | Singapore

A/P Lim Kok Hwa has completed his Master’s Degree of Chemical Engineering in National University of Singapore, and his Doctorate of Natural Science in Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. A/P Lim has over 200 publications and International Peer Reviewed Journals and Conferences’ Proceeding. He has been invited as Editorial Board Member of scientific journals and act as 

Mr. Manuel Díez
Mr. Manuel Díez
Global Business Field Manager, Lifting Equipment and Machinery, Electrical Engineering and Automation at TUV Rheinland | Germany

Manuel Diez re-joined TÜV Rheinland as a part of central Industrial Services at the beginning of September 2014, taking over the role of Global Business Field Manager for Lifting Equipment and Machinery, and also for Electrical Engineering and Automation, including Functional Safety and Cybersecurity and Explosion Protection Services. Before joining TÜV Rheinland for the first 

Mr. Ramesh Nadarajah
Mr. Ramesh Nadarajah
Vice President of AP Industrial Services at TUV Rheinland | Singapore

Ramesh Nadarajah is the Vice President of the Business Stream Industrial Services in Asia Pacific since 2016. In this role, he is responsible for developing and implementing the regional strategy, strengthening the organizational structure and building up the overall capacity of the Industrial Services business in the Asia Pacific region. Nadarajah joined TÜV Rheinland in 

Mr. Friedhelm Best
Mr. Friedhelm Best
Vice President of the Asia Pacific Region at HIMA | Singapore

Friedhelm Best is Vice President of the Asia Pacific Region at HIMA. He previously worked as Sales Director for Europe and Africa at HIMA and Director of Global Key Account Management Industry in the Electrical Sector of Eaton Corporation. Friedhelm began his career as a sales engineer at HARTING in Germany, and was subsequently key 

Er. Lucas Ng
Er. Lucas Ng
General Manager of Plant at Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS) | Singapore

Er. Lucas NG is the General Manager of Plant of Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore (PCS) since 2004. PCS is the upstream company of the Singapore Petrochemical Complex, incorporated in 1977. He serves PCS for more than 34 years. Prior to joining PCS in 1984, he was with PSA from 1980. He is responsible for the 

Mr. Lee Cherng En
Mr. Lee Cherng En
Manager – Process & Safety Consulting at Siemens Pte Ltd | Singapore

Mr. Lee more than 16 years of working experience in oil & gas, refining, and petrochemical industries, which consists of approximately 3.5 years of onshore and offshore oil & gas topsides commissioning experience, approximately 6 years of process design experience from Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase to detail engineering (EPC) phase for oil, gas 

Mr. Muzzamil Hashmi
Mr. Muzzamil Hashmi
Senior Technical Safety Engineer, Team Lead (Operations) at Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad | Brunei

Muzzamil Wasif Hashmi is working with Brunei Shell Petroleum as Team Lead Technical Safety with 22 years of experience. He holds a Master’s degree in “Safety and risk Management” and a Professional Engineer in Canada and IChemE chartered engineer in the UK. He served IChemE safety and loss preventions subject group committee for four years 

Mr. Rajesh Maharaj
Mr. Rajesh Maharaj
Principal Safety and Risk Engineer - APAC Region at HIMA Australia Pty Ltd | Australia

Rajesh is a Process Safety and Risk Management professional with over 26 years’ experience in delivering significant improvements to the safe design, construction, installation, commissioning, operations and decommissioning of major offshore and onshore Petroleum, Chemicals and Mining Facilities for domestic and international organisations including Chevron, Shell, PETRONAS, Woodside and BHP. ...

Mr. Ravisankar K
Mr. Ravisankar K
Senior Consultant- Functional Safety Expert at | India

Mr. Ravisankar is a CFSE – Functional safety expert from Exida. He has experience in Conceptual, basic and detailed engineering / HSE and LOSPE studies, HAZOP, SIL and QRA studies. He also conducted a number of training programs for Graduate engineers in Saipem and Foster wheeler on technical safety – Process Hazard Analysis / HAZOP 

Mr. Jin-Hyung Park
Mr. Jin-Hyung Park
Safety Trainer at Yokogawa Electric Korea | Korea

With Yokogawa since 1996 Working in Safety from 1999~2010 as project engineer and system lead engineer in ProSafe-PLC, ProSafe-RS Working as HAZOP chair, CHAZOP chair, LOPA chair, SIL calculation project lead engineer from 2010~2018 Certified as Certified Functional Safety Expert (Exida) in 2007 Certified as TUV Functional Safety Expert (TUV Rheinland) in 2010 Certified trainer 

Mr. Peter Sieber
Mr. Peter Sieber
Vice President Region China, Vice President Norm & Standard at HIMA Paul Hildebrandt GmbH | Germany

Peter Sieber is a graduated at Hannover/Germany and is an expert in industrial and safety automation. His 33-year career includes management and sales positions with leading international automation companies. He joined HIMA in 2014 as General Manager Global Sales and became Vice President Norms and Standards and Vice President Region China in 2017. Additionally, he 

Mr. Zoran Sekulic
Mr. Zoran Sekulic
Director/Principal Consultant at Vanguard Risk & Safety Asia Pte Ltd | Singapore

Zoran Sekulic is currently a director of Vanguard Risk and Safety Asia, a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy with expertise in the provision of Safety and Risk Engineering services. Zoran has a chemical engineering background with 37 years of professional experience in process safety/design engineering and risk management for Chemical Process Industries. Zoran is a world-wide ...

Dr. Mark Skelton
Dr. Mark Skelton
Director at Risktec Solutions DMCC | United Kingdom

Mark has 29 years of wide ranging safety and risk experience gained initially in the nuclear industry and subsequently in the oil and gas and transportation sectors. His expertise covers safety case development and all aspects of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment. Based in Dubai, he is currently responsible for Risktec’s operations throughout the middle 

Mr. Jumpol Thojun
Mr. Jumpol Thojun
Manager at TUV Rheinland | Thailand

Jumpol Thojun finished his Master’s degrees of Business Administration and Engineering in Thammasat University, Thailand, and has been in the field of Electrical Engineering and Explosion Protection Service for 24 years. He is now working as Manager- Electrical Engineering, Explosion protection services at TÜV Rheinland Thailand Ltd. Professional Licenses Associate Electrical Engineer ...

Mr. Chen Zhenkang
Mr. Chen Zhenkang
Functional Safety Expert, Head of Industrial Services at TUV Rheinland Singapore | Singapore

Mr. Chen Zhenkang is a Functional Safety Expert from TUV Rheinland, the globally-recognized certification body for Functional Safety Products, Functional Safety Applications and Functional Safety Management.  He specializes in Safety Instrumented Systems, Safety Lifecycle Management, Functional Safety Management and Functional Safety Assessment according to IEC61511 and IEC61508, with  more ...

Mr. Mike Bates
Mr. Mike Bates
Principal Consultant & Asia Regional Manager at Risktec | Malaysia

Mike Bates is a Principal Consultant at Risktec Solutions based in Dubai, UAE. With over 14 years of experience in management system and risk assessment applications, Mike manages a wide range of large and complex international risk consulting projects. Projects range from strategic risk profiling studies, through risk quantification, to full risk reduction programmes. Mike 

Dr. Ray Huang
Dr. Ray Huang
Office Director at Exponent | Hong Kong

Dr. Huang is the Office Director of Exponent’s Hong Kong Office. Huang’s expertise is in product liability, intellectual property, emerging technology due diligence and technology dispute resolution. He has worked in Europe, Asia and North America advising industrial and legal clients with focus on devising strategic plan to address technical risks involving safety, quality, ...

Mr. Terry D Jayasuriya
Mr. Terry D Jayasuriya
Head of HSSE Assurance and Standards at Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad | Brunei

Terry Douglas Jayasuriya, CEng MIET MIEE SIFPro(C) FSEng(TÜV) Head of HSSE Assurance and Standards Terry is currently the Head the HSSE Assurance and Standards with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad. He is a licensed Functional Safety Engineer with TUV Rhineland, and a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering & Technology (formerly IEE), UK. 

Dr. Zhong Weitao
Dr. Zhong Weitao
Chief Strategy Development Director at Zhejiang SUPCON Technology Co., Ltd. | China

Dr. Zhong Weitao is currently working with SUPCON as Chief Strategy Development Director with more than 23 years of experience in industrial automation, process optimization and safety. SUPCON is one of the premier automation companies based in China, with branch offices in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. He has been serving SUPCON 

Mr. Zhao Bin
Mr. Zhao Bin
General Manager, Industrial Services at TUV Rheinland (China) Co., Ltd | China

Mr. Bin Zhao serves as General of the Industrial Services in TÜV Rheinland Group Greater China since Jan.  2015. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Bin Zhao first started as a software and hardware design engineer for switching power supply. Since 2003, Mr. Bin Zhao started his career in TÜV Rheinland Group and acted as electrical 

Er. Srinivasan Premkumar
Er. Srinivasan Premkumar
Director & Chief Process Safety Specialist at ALARP Process Safety Solutions | Singapore

Premkumar is a process safety specialist with hands-on experience in process safety, process design, process engineering and operations. He is a chemical engineer with 21 years of process industry experience in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, oil & gas and industrial gases sectors across Asia Pacific, New Zealand and India. He is an IChemE registered Professional 

Mr. Lim Teck Mong
Mr. Lim Teck Mong
Director, Industrial Service, ASEAN at TUV Rheinland Singapore | Singapore

Mr. Lim Teck Mong is currently the appointed Director, Industrial Service, ASEAN in TÜV Rheinland based in Singapore office. He oversees TÜV Rheinland Industrial Service business operations in the ASEAN region including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. He provides relevant strategic directions, drives new product, solution developments and identifies merger ...

Mr. Jam Ali
Mr. Jam Ali
HSE Regulatory Compliance Lead at Brunei Shell Petroleum Company | Brunei

Mohamad Jam Ali Ibrahim, BEng(Hons) HSE Regulatory Compliance Lead Jam Ali is the HSE Regulatory Compliance Lead with Brunei Shell Petroleum Company. He holds a Bachelor Engineering Degree in Electronic & Computer Systems. He spent 8 years in Business Planning and Economics as a Corporate Operation Planning Engineer focusing on ST & MT-IAP Short and 

Mr. Djoko Siswanto
Mr. Djoko Siswanto
Director General of Oil & Gas at Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia | Indonesia

Djoko Siswanto was appointed as the Director General of Oil and Gas in March 2018. He graduated from Petrochemical Engineering, Bandung Technology Institute in 1990. He received Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School of Herriot Watt University UK (2001), Master of Business Administration in Specialist Oil and Gas Management, Center of Energy Petroleum 

Mr. Tan Shing Yenn
Mr. Tan Shing Yenn
Product Leader at Emerson - Rosemount Flame & Gas Detection Asia Pacific | Singapore

Eng (Hons), MBA Firmly believes in “Hire for Attitude; Train for Skills” 15 years of global sales, marketing, business development, and project management in multi-national corporations across various industries Passionate about leadership, business strategies, and building customer relationships Experience in: Marketing Strategy Sales and Business Development Systems Project Execution Oil ...