Dr. Béla Kelemen, SVP, MOL Group Supply Chain Management, and John
Kearney, Technical Director, Wood Group to Share Industry Perspectives
for Global Process Manufacturing and Engineering Companies
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 11, 2013--
Aspen
Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), a leading provider of software and
services to the process industries, announced the addition of Dr. Béla
Kelemen, Senior Vice President of MOL Group Supply Chain Management
(SCM), and John Kearney, Technical Director of Wood Group, to address
AspenTech’s global audience at OPTIMIZE
2013. Kelemen and Kearney join Professor George
Stephanopoulos of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and
AspenTech’s President and CEO Mark Fusco and Executive Vice President,
Manolis Kotzabasakis, as headline speakers at OPTIMIZE 2013’s
opening plenary session.
Dr. Kelemen is Senior Vice President of MOL Group Supply Chain
Management. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of MOL Group
Refining and Marketing and Vice President of MOL Group Refining. Before
joining MOL Group, Kelemen held various senior-level sales and trading
roles, including Director of Refinery & Marketing at Slovnaft, where he
now serves as a board member.
John Kearney, Technical Director, Wood Group, has more than 30 years of
industry experience, holding senior leadership positions in engineering,
construction, and operations and maintenance. He has worked with the
world’s leading Exploration & Production companies including Shell, BP
and ExxonMobil.
Professor George Stephanopoulos is the Arthur D. Little Professor of
Chemical Engineering at MIT, and a Principal Investigator in the Process
Systems Engineering Lab. He has received numerous honors and awards over
the years, and is the author of Intelligent Systems in Process
Engineering: Paradigms for Product and Process Design and Chemical
Process Control: An Introduction to Theory and Practice.
About the AspenTech OPTIMIZE Conference
AspenTech’s OPTIMIZE is the only conference dedicated to the exchange of
engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain best practices for the
process industries. OPTIMIZE brings together thought leaders,
influencers, and experts from the top process manufacturers and
engineering firms worldwide to share insight to reduce costs, improve
margins, and increase profit using aspenONE® software.
Featuring nearly 100 real-world cases presented by AspenTech customers,
OPTIMIZE 2013 will take place in Boston from May 6-8. Sponsors
and media partners include Microsoft, AIChE, Applied Control
Engineering, Helium Consulting, M&W Group, PlantVision, TimeCommerce, Control
Magazine, Hydrocarbon Processing, and World Oil.
About MOL Group
MOL Group is a leading integrated Central and East European oil and gas
corporation with an extensive international Upstream portfolio. MOL is
committed to maintaining and further improving the efficiency of its
current portfolio, exploiting potential in its captive and new markets,
and to excellence in its social and environmental performance.
About Wood Group
Wood Group is a leading independent services provider for the oil & gas
and power generation markets. Worldwide these services include
engineering, procurement and construction management, facility
operations & maintenance, and repair & overhaul of turbines and other
high-speed rotating equipment.
Supporting Quote
Blair Wheeler, Senior Vice President, Marketing, AspenTech
“AspenTech’s
global OPTIMIZE conference draws the most innovative engineering,
manufacturing, and supply chain leaders from the process industries and
reinforces the importance of aspenONE software for operational
efficiency and profitability. In that context, we are delighted to have
our keynote speakers Dr. Béla Kelemen, John Kearney, and George
Stephanopoulos who will set the tone for the conference by providing the
industry backdrop and the executive perspective on today’s business
challenges.”
Supporting Resources
About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process
manufacturing – for energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, and
other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical
process. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can
implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing
and supply chain operations. As a result, AspenTech customers are better
able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs and become more
energy efficient. To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers
rely on AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com.
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and OPTIMIZE are trademarks of Aspen Technology, Inc. All rights
reserved. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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