Anna Zhao

Managing Consultant - Thermoplastics/Nylon

Wood Mackenzie

Anna joined Wood Mackenzie Chemicals in 2021 as a senior analyst for nylon value chains. Before that, she had been as a senior consultant at a petrochemical consultancy for more than ten years and worked on a series of commodities ranging from olefins, aromatics and polymers & intermediates. As a chemical engineering major, she started her career in sales & marketing roles for specialty chemicals and has experience in many industries including textiles, electronics and automobiles.

Olivier Vandecasteele

General Manager

Belgotex International nv

Olivier Vandecasteele started his career in 1993 as export manager for Beaulieu of America, a carpet flooring group based in the USA. From 1997 to 2000, he was responsible for Beaulieu of Australia. From 2000 onwards, he entered into the trenches of the nylon 6 industry, being responsible for the Belgotex International nylon 6 activities since 2006.

Mauro Chavez

Research Director, European Gas and LNG markets

Wood Mackenzie

Mauro has more than 14 years of experience in energy markets and is a recognised specialist in the natural gas and LNG industry. He is responsible for Wood Mackenzie's European gas and LNG market coverage, and is based in London. Previously, Mauro headed the Latin American gas markets team and in that role he supported LNG-to-power projects, new gas supply agreements, gas monetisation strategies and M&As of gas infrastructure in Latin America. Mauro advises companies at the executive level, as well as being a regular speaker at international industry conferences, and is quoted in various print and broadcast media outlets. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Mauro spent time as visiting researcher at Imperial College London, the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research in Portugal and the Center on Energy and Environmental Economics in Brazil. He has worked in the Ministry of Mines and Energy and National Environmental Fund in Peru. He has many publications in scientific international journals on energy and environmental topics and is a reviewer of the Energy Policy Journal, Energy (Oxford) and Energy Strategy Reviews.

Vedran Kujundzic

Chief Commercial Officer - Polymers & Intermediates

DOMO

Vedran Kujundzic has been named chief commercial officer for polymers & intermediates effective as of January 2023. Previously, Vedran spent 20 years at BASF in various executive and operational roles in marketing and sales for polyamides and intermediates. In 2016, he made the switch to Borealis, where he served as vice president, global sales polyolefins, and member of the polyolefins Board. As CCO of Domo he will be responsible for the optimisation of Domo’s upstream value chain for PA6 and PA66 solutions. As a member of the executive committee, he reports to the CEO, Yves Bonte.

Laurent Gervat

Technical Polymers and Composites Expert

Renault Group

Laurent Gervat, PhD, is the Expert for Technical Polymers and Composites at Renault, an international automobile manufacturer headquartered in France. He also leads the Upstream Strategy Material Team, which is composed of buyers and engineers. Together they define the strategy for selecting and prescribing plastics and composites for Renault. Since 2014, Dr Gervat has also been supervising the merger of Renault and Nissan design methods for plastics parts. Prior to this, Dr. Gervat had worked for over 20 years in the chemicals industry. He held various positions, with both technical and marketing implications for many polymers and additives. Earlier in his career, he was a Scientist at ESPCI (Paris), where he obtained his Ph-D, specializing in mechanical properties and processing of semi-crystalline polymers.

Emma Fox

Senior Research Analyst, Refining and Oil Products

Wood Mackenzie

Emma joined Wood Mackenzie in early 2022 as a Senior Analyst in Downstream Oils Assets Research. Her focus is European and African refining across short-term and long-term markets, as well as refinery modelling and benchmarking analysis. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, Emma was a process engineer at ExxonMobil, specialising in fluidised catalytic cracking. She is a chartered chemical engineer and holds an MEng in Chemical Engineering from University of Bath.

Marco Agosti

Strategic Raw Material Procurement Manager

Radici Group

A professional specializing in purchasing process management, planning, scheduling and optimization of industrial services. Always projected towards Improvement of efficiencies, introduction of new products and development of processes, after graduating in chemistry and after the university executive master on Innovation, Design & Project Manufacturing Management in Milano, he began his activity in Radici in 1997. The first experiences in this important Italian industrial chemical company, leader in the production of polyamide and related products, are intense and cover all aspects of corporate management, like control of production processes, technical materials, specifications for purchases and relations with suppliers, logistics planning including plant start-ups. Since 2005 he continues his experience at the company headquarter, in the area of technical industrial services and since 2008 as strategic raw material procurement manager. In this period, he develops and, actively, he takes part of commercial and extraordinary operations for companies in the chemical industry at international level. Currently he lives in Bergamo with his family, in harmony with the sparkling atmosphere of the mountains that surround the city, passionate about sports, always inclined to meet people in a multilingual and multi-cultural context.

Timur Zilbershteyn

Consultant – Chemicals, Polymers & Fibres

Wood Mackenzie

Timur joined Wood Mackenzie’s Chemicals team in 2015, following the acquisition of PCI Group by Wood Mackenzie. He started at PCI in January, 2015 as a Business Analyst, responsible for preparing cost models, analysis of price tendencies and market situation in the nylon chain from petrochemical feedstock to fibres and engineering plastics. Prior to PCI, Timur was 7 years with SIBUR petrochemical company as a leading researcher, responsible for exploring business opportunities and leading in-house and collaborative R&D teams. He participated in feasibility studies, market analysis and chemical process evaluations. Timur graduated from the Moscow State University with a Specialist’s degree in Chemistry, and earned his doctor degree in Petroleum Chemistry from the Institute of Petroleum Chemistry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science.

Robert Gilfillan

Head of Polymers & Fibres

Wood Mackenzie

Mark Krüger

President of Polymers & Engineering Plastics

Aquafil

Mark Krüger has been in the industry since the mid 90'. He was with Ube for 20 years, where he was responsible for raw material purchasing, caprolactam and polymer sales. Currently, Mark is President of Polymers & Engineering Plastics at Aquafil, where he heads up strategic raw material purchasing, as well as the development of special projects, such as bringing the ECONYL® success story into EP applications.

Quentin de Carvalho

Head of Thermoplastics

Wood Mackenzie

Quentin has over 30 years’ experience in the chemical industry in both France and Brazil, most recently with Rhodia, part of Solvay Group. Having held positions in marketing and market intelligence processing and tools, he has extensive project management, chemical process management and R&D experience. A Chemical Engineer graduation from UNICAMP (Campinas State University), Quentin holds an MBA from Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.

Patrick Gibson

Research Director, Global Oil Supply

Wood Mackenzie

Patrick is a Research Director for Wood Mackenzie’s oil supply research practice. He is a leading commentator on global oil supply and is widely quoted in industry and financial publications. He regularly works on consultancy projects involving analysis of oil and NGL supply and crude quality trends. Since joining Wood Mackenzie in 1988 he has worked in several roles within the company’s wider European Energy practice. He managed the team of analysts responsible for Wood Mackenzie’s upstream products covering the North West Europe and Southern Europe regions and then had the role of Regional Principal Consultant, focussing on the management and delivery of upstream consultancy projects. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Patrick gained a BSc in Geology from Edinburgh University, and a PhD from Imperial College London, which involved a period of work in the Australian oil industry.

Alexei Sinitsa

Fibres Consultant

Wood Mackenzie

Dr Alexei Sinitsa has over 20 years experience in chemical industry, starting his journey with Rhône-Poulenc/Rhodia, and spanning technical, commercial, executive and consulting roles in the nylon chain, including intermediates, polymers, fibres and downstream applications. He graduated as organic chemist with honours from Kiev University, and did his doctoral research with Institute of Organic Chemistry, NAS Ukraine.

Mariana Moreira

Principal Research Analyst, Chemicals of the Energy Transition

Wood Mackenzie

Mariana is a Senior Research Analyst within Wood Chemicals; she joined the team in 2020. Mariana's research focuses on regional and global markets for Films & Flexible Packaging, providing short-term supply, demand and price monitoring and long-term strategic outlooks. Prior to this, Mariana was a Senior Research Analyst at IHS Markit where she was the regional expert for the South American chlor-alkali market while also covering bleaching chemicals markets in Europe and South America. Mariana holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon.