Our People

Through my various roles at Yokogawa, most recently President & CEO of Yokogawa Europe, I have been involved with KBC since Yokogawa’s acquisition in 2016. I’ve held several different positions at KBC, including consulting business development and total solution development and have been on KBC’s Board of Directors which sets the company’s strategic plans and directions. As CEO I look forward to leading this consulting and technology company to provide comprehensive solutions for decarbonization and energy management with our digitalization capability.

I am responsible for the financial leadership of KBC, since Yokogawa acquired it in 2016. I have been at Yokogawa for 30 years, and for the most part, never had a boring year!  

I divide my time with a global role in Yokogawa, where I work with the Yokogawa Financial Directors around the globe. My career began at Deloitte, after which I moved to work for my then client, Yokogawa.  

I have spent 13 years as the CFO in USA, based in Houston, Texas.  Over the years, I have served in global positions in Tokyo and Singapore.  Graduating from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and I’m also a CPA.  

What I like most about KBC/Yokogawa, is the collaborative nature of the people, and the fact that I get to work with a wonderful team of financial professionals!  

I am responsible for KBC’s global organizational development and HR strategy, and also a part of the Yokogawa Global HR leadership team. I have over 20 years' international HR experience at both strategic and operational level. Prior to joining KBC, I was Director of HR covering Europe, Middle East and Africa for PRG, the world's leading supplier of entertainment and event technology.  I have also held various HR management roles within the entertainment and retail industries. As a qualified member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, I also hold a post graduate diploma in Human Resource Management. Time with my family, travelling and walking the dogs by the River Thames are all things I enjoy in my spare time.

I am thrilled to lead the Technology Portfolio Management & Services group.  We are focused on building a partnership with our customers through a holistic approach to customer success via excellence in all our deliverables in the areas of simulation, energy and digital transformation, among others.  My understanding and expertise of customer success comes from involvement in different areas of the customer and product lifecycle, such as Services, Product Management, Technical Sales and Business Development. I hold an MA in Economics from the University of Houston and BA in Economics from the University of Puerto Rico. If I’m not passionately fiercely advocating for my customers, you can find me either at the beach enjoying the sun, or at a baseball game, Go Astros!

My goal is to provide decarbonization for our customers industries with our leading technologies for emissions monitoring and reduction. I am proud of the value we provide to organizations which embrace change and transform their culture with our technology and solutions. It gives me gratification to support my personal commitment of improving the environment along with my passion for simulation technologies. 

The next two decades will be critical for redirecting climate change and demonstrating that we can make sustainable progress. This challenge is a great opportunity for us to keep developing novel technologies that integrate renewables, hydrogen, and other energy sources necessary for the energy transition.

I live in Barcelona and like practicing sports in nature.

I am responsible for KBC’s consulting and solution global sales, and the sales co-ordination with KBC’s parent company, Yokogawa. After graduating from the University of Surrey as a Chemical Engineer, I started my career with Mobil Oil (now ExxonMobil) where I had a number of technical, operational and planning positions. These roles gave me a great grounding in the industry and gave me first hand experience of many of the issues of maintaining safe operation and optimizing a large complex plant.  I started at KBC as a consultant and project manager before moving into business development and have led sales teams around the world.

What brings this role to life is engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and constraints and working with them to define, develop and implement practical solutions that will solve those problems, accelerate value capture and ensure the change is sustained.  

In my spare time, keeping fit is my passion which involves cycling, swimming and playing (field) hockey.

I am responsible for the technical direction of KBC, directly leading our Technology R&D program, for keeping the Global Leadership Team informed on technical matters affecting the company and for technical liaison with Yokogawa. I also head the Technology Delivery teams, covering Digital, IT and Modelling Services, Support and Training. I'm based in Calgary, Canada after many years with KBC in the UK working on designing and building much of process simulation technology that underpins our business. My experience spans across supply chain applications covering planning, scheduling and production accounting and I see this as a ripe area for disruption through new technologies underpinning digital transformation. Prior to joining KBC, I was a postgraduate researcher in dynamic process simulation at the University of Edinburgh, building on my degree in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University. In my spare time I can often be found in the kitchen, where I enjoy making the complex appear simple, or in the great outdoors of western Canada.

I am delighted to lead the global consulting project delivery team at KBC.  After graduating from the University of Aston as a Chemical Engineer, I have worked in many technical and operational roles within the Chemical and Oil and Gas industry. These roles gave me a great grounding into the industry and first-hand experience of the issues around maintaining safe operations and optimizing large complex plants.  I started my career at KBC as a senior consultant and project manager. I have worked across a large variety of projects to support our clients in the implementation of KBC products and solutions in Profit Improvement, Operational Excellence, Energy, Decarbonization and Due Diligence.

What brings this role to life is delivering projects in partnership with our clients to understand their challenges and constraints. Working with clients I help them to define, develop and implement practical solutions that will solve their problems, accelerate value capture and ensure the change is sustained.  

In my spare time, you will find me out in the UK countryside horse riding, walking or reading a large range of books.