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Meet our Chairman and Steering Committee
2025
Meet the Chairman
Sayee Raghunathan Welding and Metallurgical Engineering Consultant for Saudi Aramco
Mr. Sayee Raghunathan is an experienced, commercially focused technocrat, with specialization in the manufacturing and the energy sectors, as well as having experience across the entire product lifecycle and technology readiness spectrum. As a welding and metallurgical engineering consultant for Saudi Aramco, in Saudi Arabia he is engaged in, amongst other things, materials selection consultations, run-repair-replace evaluations for assets, and high-level studies and investigations. Until recently, he volunteered as a non-executive director of the American Welding Society( AWS), as the Chair of the Product Development Committee( PDC) and as a member of four other committees. Before Saudi Aramco, he worked as an Associate Director at TWI, Cambridge, UK and as a visiting professor for the Dalton Institute of Manchester University. He was awarded Counselor status by the AWS in 2022, the Lidstone Medal in 2012 and is a Fellow of eight UK professional institutes including the Welding Institute, Nuclear Institute, Energy Institute, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Corrosion and IOM3. He actively volunteers for education, professional development and technology advancement causes.
Stainless Steel World Conference 2025 Steering Committee
The Steering Committee plays a pivotal role in shaping and overseeing the event. These prominent industry figures set the vision and objectives for the 2025 conference, aligning it with the latest trends and needs of the stainless steel industry. They are responsible for curating the conference agenda, including selecting keynote speakers, panel discussions, and workshops that reflect the industry’ s current challenges and innovations.
- Chairman: Sayee Raghunathan, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia- Jacko Aerts, dsm-firmenich, Netherlands- Svein Prestrud Astad, Equinor ASA, Norway- Andrew Balev, Centravis Production Ukraine PJSC, Ukraine
- Raymond Cordewener, R. Cordewener Management & Consultancy, Netherlands
- Roger Francis, RF Materials Corrosion Consultancy, UK- Andrea Galperti, Galperti, Italy- Barinder Ghai, Alleima, UK- Dr Saman Hosseinpour, Outokumpu, Germany- John Houben, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering, Netherlands- Dr. Yong Hua, Jiuli, China- Markus Kind, Rolf Kind GmbH, Germany- Nicole Kinsman, International Molybdenum Association, Switzerland
- Thomas Ladwein, Consultant- Steinbeis Transferzentrum Korrosion & Werkstoff, Germany
- Hervé Marchebois, TotalEnergies, France- Stefan Müller-Bernhardt, Venus Pipes & Tubes, Germany- Mamoru Nagao, Maruichi Stainless Tube Co., Ltd., Japan- Sunday Okoro, GRUNDFOS, Denmark- Jan-Willem Rensman, Fluor BV, Netherlands- Raquel Rodriguez, Tubacex, Spain- Iris Rommerskirchen, Rommerskirchen GmbH, Germany- Christian Schenk, H. Butting GmbH & Co. KG, Germany- Yuhei Suzuki, NIPPON STEEL Corporation, Japan- Florian Thoennessen, DMV Deutschland GmbH, Germany- Jan van de Wetering, Nobian, Netherlands- Peter van Gansewinkel, Brück, Germany
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