Senior Vice President, Global Head of Chemical Market Analytics
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Dewey Johnson is Senior Vice President & Global Lead of Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company (“Chemical Market Analytics”).
IHS Markit Global LLC (“IHS Markit”) was acquired by S&P Global in February 2022. As part of the merger, IHS Markit Base Chemicals was spun off and separately acquired by Dow Jones and renamed “Chemical Market Analytics” in June 2022.
Dewey is responsible for the global business, including insight and research covering the major chemical value chains including Aromatics and Fibers, Olefins and Derivatives, Inorganics (chlor-alkali, vinyls, and soda ash), Plastics and Polymers, and Syngas Chemicals (methanol, acetyls, and ammonia). Dewey is based in Houston.
Prior to Chemical Market Analytics, Dewey joined IHS Markit (through legacy CMAI) in 2009. His experience in the petrochemical industry covers all aspects of the business- financial, commercial, operations, research, strategy design and business planning, business development, as well as consultancy. Prior to IHS Markit, he was with Eastman Chemical Company, where he spent more than 25 years in strategic and commercial roles with various business groups and corporate functions. Dewey held management positions in commercial development, global sourcing, P&L for key businesses, market development, and market & strategic analysis of chemical markets and businesses. Dewey has led multiple complex engagements in strategy development and execution, global sourcing of Aromatics & olefins derivatives and industrial gases, business simulation & game theory and dynamic modeling, sales/ marketing, and business development. Dewey received BS and MS engineering degrees from Tennessee Technological University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He also earned an MBA in General Management. Dewey has been a frequent guest lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, UVA Darden School of Management, and SUNY at Albany School of Public Policy.
Mr. Mike Nash is the Vice President for Syngas Chemicals (including the methanol and acetyls practices) at Chemical Market Analytics.
He works with a global team of regional consultants and overlays their analyses with a global perspective. His responsibilities include the weekly World Methanol Report and monthly World Methanol Analysis, including the weekly and monthly Global Acetyls Market Reports and the related World Analyses for Methanol, Acetyls, and Formaldehyde.
Before joining the IHS Markit base chemicals business (now known as Chemical Market Analytics) in September 2012, Mr. Nash worked for BP’s petrochemicals division for 19 years preceding a two-year stint in Total’s UK fuels business. He performed various commercial roles within BP, in international business management, marketing, project management, and logistics, based in London, Duesseldorf, and Kuala Lumpur. His last role in the Total UK was the Logistics Director for Specialties.
Mr. Nash holds a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from Edinburgh University, UK, and a Master of Business Administration from Kingston University, UK.
Terence is an Associate Director in the Aromatics and Fibres department of Chemical Market Analytics (previously known as Base Chemicals under IHS Markit)
He is primarily responsible for the Phenol, Acetone, Bisphenol-A, Orthoxylene, and Phthalic Anhydride products in the Asia Pacific region. He has a decade of experience in the chemical industry. Prior to joining Chemical Market Analytics, he had multiple commercial experiences in ExxonMobil for more than 6 years, spanning across sales, marketing, financial planning, business analysis, and strategic planning in polyolefins and liquids, with a deep understanding of both internal and external interfaces to provide value-added business solutions for clients in consulting. He holds a Chemical Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.
Young Geun Lee is a Principal Analyst with the Asia Olefins team at Chemical Market Analytics.
In this role, he covers Asia light olefins with a particular focus on the Southeast Asia market. He is involved in market research for ethylene and propylene, and supply and demand analysis. Prior to joining Chemical Market Analytics (previously IHS Markit) in 2020, Mr. Lee worked as a sales executive at the Japanese trading company, Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
Mr. Goyal is the Director of the Circular Plastic Service team in Chemical Market Analytics.
He leads the team in technology and infrastructure related to plastics circular economy and sustainability. His work areas include technical assessment focusing on plastic circularity, bio-fuels, clean tech, and sustainability.
Mr. Goyal brings over 18 years of experience in chemical process engineering, research and analysis, EPC process industry, process design, and project management. He provides customized strategic analysis and techno-commercial assessments for clients in the areas of new and emerging technologies for the chemical process industry. He served as project lead for the technical evaluation of various technologies and published reports on post-consumer plastic recycling (pyrolysis), advances in plastic chemical recycling (gasification), large-scale plastic pyrolysis, syngas fermentation, cellulosic ethanol, biomass pretreatment, coal gasification, and syngas to ethanol. He also led process comparison and cost tracker for Biodiesel, ethanol, and isoprene for the industry clients.
Mr. Goyal initially joined IHS Markit Process Economics Program (formerly SRI Consulting) in 2014 and later move to lead the Technology team in Circular Plastic Services within Chemical Market Analytics in June-2021. Previously he was with LanzaTech driving commercialization efforts of syngas fermentation technology and business development. He has also worked with Air Liquide Global E&C in Germany and India where he led India’s first high ash coal to DRI project using Lurgi gasification. He also has good ethanol industry plant design and operation experience where he facilitated a few distilleries related to molasses and grains as feedstocks.
Mr. Goyal holds a Certificate of Business Excellence from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his degree in Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from India. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers (IIChE), Kolkata, India.
Brian Lee is the Executive Director for Styrene, Phenol, and Acetone at Chemical Market Analytics.
Brian is responsible for covering Styrene, Phenol, and Acetone market analysis and the market reports on Asian Aromatics.
Mr. Lee serves as an executive director at Chemical Market Analytics responsible for covering Styrene, Phenol, and Acetone market analysis and the market reports on Asian Aromatics.
He contributes to various market advisory publications and supports consulting activities. His distinguished career has spanned more than 25 years in the petrochemical and chemical industries.
Previously, he worked with Argus Dewitt for three years as a vice president covering Asian Aromatics. He contributed to numerous market reports, and single client studies and also hosted the Asian conference including speaking. Mr. Lee started his career with Samsung C&T Corporation where he worked for 16 years both in Asia and Europe. He was responsible for trading and marketing BTX, Styrene, PX, and PTA to global customers. Mr. Lee holds an MBA from Hanyang cyber University, and a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from Hanyang University, South Korea.
Joyce Jahyung Lee is the Associate Director at Asia Olefin Team at Chemical Market Analytics Singapore.
She is responsible for propylene derivatives products under Global Oxos & Acrylates services – Acrylic Acid, Acrylate, SAP, Oxo Alcohols, and Plasticizers in Asia(ex-China). Prior to joining Chemical Market Analytics in 2021, she had worked at Hanwha Solutions for over 11 years, covering many roles in commercial, procurement, planning & business development in petrochemical products. She also has extensive experience in research and analysis on international trade.
Ashish Pujari serves as Vice President of Aromatics and Fibres in the Chemicals team at Chemical Market Analytics in Singapore.
Mr. Pujari has responsibility for the Asian Aromatics business and Global Fibres and Feedstocks business and is the service leader for subscription services covering the global Polyester, and the Asian Aromatics value chain. He also provides commercial leadership to the Polyurethanes Service within the Base chemicals group. Apart from the regular market and outlook updates, Mr. Pujari also leads initiatives in creating and updating the long-term outlook for the polyester value chain. He has also been involved in numerous consulting studies since joining the firm. Prior to joining Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI) in 2009, Mr. Pujari gained 15 years of experience with Reliance Industries Limited in India. He started his career as a project and operations engineer and was involved in the startup and commissioning of the Hazira complex on the west coast of India. He shifted to the commercial role in mid-1998 and worked as a business analyst for Reliance’s executive management before shifting to a sales and marketing role, handling Fibers Intermediates. Mr. Pujari holds a B.E. in chemical and polymer engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India, and completed his Executive MBA, at the Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, India.
Mike Park is Director for Asia light Olefins and propylene derivatives at Chemical Market Analytics.
Mr. Park is responsible for covering Asia light olefins and propylene derivatives including acrylic acid, acrylates, SAP, MMA, oxo alcohols, and plasticizers. He has been contributing to various market advisory services and world analyses for hundreds of global clients since 2017. His distinguished career has spanned 15 years in the petrochemical and chemical industries. Before joining Chemical Market Analytics, Mr. Park worked at LG Chem in Korea for 10 years responsible for sales and marketing propylene derivatives.
Mike is based in Singapore.
Anthony Song is the Director for APAC C4 & Elastomers at Chemical Market Analytics.
Mr. Song is responsible for coverage of the butadiene/C4 and elastomers markets in the Asia Pacific, including the monthly contributions to the Global Outlook for Feedstock (C4) and Elastomers Report. Anthony started his career as a petrochemical trader at Hanwha Corporation in Korea. His duties were to trade EDC/VCM/C4 LPG within Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia. Later he became trading manager for handling Crude C4/Butadiene/ C4 Raffinates as well as supporting other Olefin products such as Ethylene and Propylene.
In 2006, he was sent to Dubai, UAE, as a regional expert program started by the Hanwha Group. During his 9 months tenure, he researches and develops future strategic programs within the Middle East from product development to investment portfolio. In 2008, Mr. Song was managing a team of traders at Hanwha International (Singapore office) handling Olefins and Aromatics, focusing on Toluene as well as other C4 Olefins products. Mr. Song graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Utpal Sheth serves as the Executive Director for Research and Analysis at Chemical Market Analytics
Mr. Sheth led the regional Plastics Team in Singapore. He brings with him extensive industry experience and knowledge of 28 years in Asia and the Middle East. As a part of his current assignment, apart from leading the Weekly Regional Plastics Service, he contributes to various Market Advisory services as well as supports various consulting activities as an expert in the Polyolefins business.
He joined CMAI (now division of Chemical Market Analytics) as Director of Polyolefins / PVC for the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent at our Dubai office in October 2007. In July 2014, he has relocated to Singapore to lead the Plastics Service in Asia – Middle East. Prior to joining CMAI, Utpal had worked in the Sales and Marketing functions at Petrochemical Companies in India and the Middle East.
He is a Plastics Engineer and Master in Business Administration (Marketing). Apart from English, he can communicate in Hindi and Gujarati.
Anthony Tso is a Director in the Chemical Market Analytics Aromatics & Fibers team.
Mr. Tso brings many years of experience in both refining and petrochemicals, including olefins, aromatics, and motor gasoline blending. He was working with ExxonMobil for ten years, moving through roles in refinery and petrochemical economics and optimization, production, and feedstock planning. Prior to joining Chemical Market Analytics, Mr. Tso was working with Platts Analytics, with a focus on supply/ demand modeling, developing blending methodology, and analyzing naphtha and petrochemical feedstock flows. His main research focus is now on nylon feedstock and fibers for the Asian region. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from the National University of Singapore.