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Meet the Board of Directors
President
Ben is an energy industry professional with 10 years of experience in market analysis. Most of his career has been centered on petroleum refining and petrochemicals, specifically the global distillate, fuel oil, petroleum coke, olefins, and polyolefins markets. Ben currently works at Phillips 66 as a refining and petrochemicals market analyst, focused on price forecasting, supply/demand balances, global trends, and cash cost modeling. In the past, Ben worked as a petrochemicals analyst for S&P Global Platts, and as a senior analyst for Jacobs Consultancy. At Jacobs Consultancy, Ben covered the global petroleum coke and calcined petcoke markets. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, a Master’s in Education Management, and a Master’s in Business Administration with a focus on International Business.
Vice President
Marketing Director
Jun Wang
Jun is the founder of JSBC Marketing, a consultancy providing digital marketing services across multiple business sectors. Her experience includes digital footprint optimization, digital marketing analysis, website design, sales, and vendor negotiation. She has in-depth knowledge of the auto and international banking industries. She earned a bachelor’s degree with focuses in Marketing and Economics from Kyushu Kyoritsu University in Japan and Shanghai Ocean University. Her hometown is Shanghai, China.
Marketing Director
Burçin is an estimating service manager at MASF Industries focusing on steel material and fabrication analysis. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering with years of production experience at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group in Turkey. He has made various data analysis and input-output correlation studies within the scope of sheet metal forming processes. His process improvement specialties include 6-Sigma , FMEA , PPAP , and APQP.
Corporate Relations Director
David Morales
Corporate Relations Director
Zahid Afzal
Zahid has been working for Argus Media since 2015 covering the natural gas industry. He worked at S & P Global Platts prior to that covering NGLs. Before working in the price reporting industry he worked at Texas Engineering Extension Service’s (TEEX) Product Development Center helping business of all sizes to commercialize products and research on market intelligence to stay competitive.
Membership Director
Heidi Bonilla
After graduation from Georgia Tech, Heidi Bonilla started her career in Oil through the Katalyst Commercial Development Program at Phillips 66. The program featured an extensive 3 month training immersion where Heidi acquired in-depth knowledge of oil markets and refinery operations. Upon completion of the training she worked within the Commercial Marine group as an Operations Analyst, working on domestic and international movements across the crude barrel. Currently, Heidi is an Energy analyst for the Midstream group where she primarily deals with Natural gas and Power procurement for Phillip 66 assets.
Heidi has a passion on many network involvement opportunities. She is the Social Chair for the Commercial Early Career Network for a second term; she is part of the Katalyst Leadership Council; she is part of the Commercial Recruiting team for Georgia Tech; she is a committee member within the Women’s Network and the Hispanic Network, and is actively involved with the New Hire Network.
Compliance Director
Swati is a recent graduate from C.T. Bauer College of Business, UH with a MS in Global Energy Management degree. During her program, she also earned three energy certificates - Energy Finance, Energy Investment Analysis and Economics of Energy Value Chain. She has developed an indepth understanding of upstream, midstream and downstream commercial economics, supply & trading and financial & market analysis. Swati has three years of experience in biofuel and utility projects. She served on the board of the Bauer MBA Society's Energy Club and has organized speaker panels. company visits, conference and social mixers. Further, She has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering & Master of Engineering degree in Planning and Operation of Energy system from NTNU, Norway.
Events Director
Zach is a database engineer and software developer who specializes in integrating database tools into commodity trading teams. He began his career as an ETRM system consultant at JP Morgan and PetroChina International America before moving to natural gas analytics and business intelligence for PetroChina. Outside of work, Zach is experimenting with TensorFlow and Kaggle data science competitions. He graduated from Tulane's Master's of Energy Finance program and holds an Energy Risk Professional certification.
Finance Director
Jennifer is a CPA with more than 17 years of experience spanning both corporate and public accounting. Her industry experience includes upstream and downstream energy, oilfield services and manufacturing. Jennifer began her career at BDO USA, LLP and has served in various financial leadership roles at public companies including Corporate Controller at U.S. Well Services and Director of Corporate Accounting at CVR Energy. Jennifer is currently an independent accounting consultant assisting her clients with technical accounting, business processes and controls, and SEC reporting. Jennifer graduated from the University of Houston – Clear Lake with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and passed the four-part Texas CPA exam on her first attempt.
University Relations Director
Duygu (Su) Onat
Committee Members
Editor
Catherine Sampson