Global Chlor-Alkali & Vinyls Conference

Wouter Bleukx Business Manager Vinyls & Hydrogen INEOS Inovyn

Wouter Bleukx is a Doctor in Applied Biological Sciences of the Catholic University of Leuven Belgium.

Wouter has 25 years business experience, executing different roles in Chemical Businesses going from research & development; sales and marketing, supply chain and product management. During last 10 years Wouter was responsible for business management in Organic Chlorinated Derivatives, Chlor Alkali and Hydrogen in INEOS Inovyn.

Currently, Wouter Bleukx is responsible for the Business General Purpose Vinyls in INEOS Inovyn.

Paul Leclair Vice President and Co-Founder Numera Analytics

Paul Leclair is a pulp and paper market expert with 25 years of experience in the industry. As Vice President and co-founder of Numera Analytics, Paul oversees the operations of Numera’s sectoral and custom research services, which cover the entire range of pulp and paper products, including market pulp, specialty pulps, graphic papers, packaging grades, tissue, hygiene products and recycled fibres. Paul holds a Masters degree in Economics from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC).

David McCoy Executive Chairman TZMI

David McCoy is the Executive Chairman of TZMI, a globally recognized consulting firm that supports the world’s opaque minerals and metals industries, particularly in the titanium value chain. David has worked for clients in over 70 countries.

He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (Chemical Engineering) and has a Master of Engineering Management (International Finance major) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Brian Newsome Vice President, Global Chlor-alkali Advisory Service Lead Chemical Market Analytics

Brian Newsome is the Vice President of the Global Chlor-alkali advisory service at Chemical Market Analytics (CMA)

Prior to joining CMA, Brian served in several roles at Westlake Corporation, including as Director of Strategy, Business Manager for Chlorine and Chlorine Derivatives, and Market Manager for Calcium Hypochlorite. He has also previously worked in commercial and technical roles for Kureha Corporation (Japan), Motorola Semiconductor and ExxonMobil LNG. Brian has over 17 years of chemical industry experience including over 13 years of global chlor-alkali and vinyl’s industries experience in marketing, sales and business line management roles. He received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin as well as a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Humberto J. Rocha Carbon and Biodiversity Editor OPIS a Dow Jones Company

Humberto J. Rocha is a Carbon and Biodiversity Editor based in London, focusing on the carbon compliance markets in the European Union and the United Kingdom and the growing voluntary biodiversity credit market. A journalist with nearly a decade of experience, Humberto primarily focuses on covering the dynamics of the compliance carbon markets in Europe. He covers daily and weekly price assessments, conducts webinars and writes features ranging from the gulf between the U.K. and EU carbon prices and the potential linkage between these two carbon markets. Additionally, he covers policy developments and pricing trends in the voluntary biodiversity credit market from projects around the world.

Humberto joined OPIS in the summer of 2022 after covering energy policy and federal and state legal cases in the United States for Law360 at the news agency’s Houston and London offices. He has also worked in international outlets including Japan’s The Yomiuri Shimbun, local news at Hearst Connecticut Media, and Forbes. Humberto speaks fluent Spanish and French and has a bachelor’s degree in Social Studies with a focus on Latin America from Harvard University and a master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of Oxford.

Michal Roztoczynski Business Consultant PCC Group

Michal currently holds the position of Business Consultant with PCC Group.

Michal brings over 15 years of international experience to the realm of sales and business development, specializing in designing and implementing effective sales strategies and expanding business operations in foreign markets. For the past seven years, he has been deeply involved in the chlor-alkali industry developing strong industry knowledge and fostering key partnerships.

Michal holds a Master’s degree in Biotechnology from Wroclaw University of Science and Technology and in Management from Wroclaw University of Economics and Business.

Mariana Santos Moreira Thought Leadership Director Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS

Mariana is the Thought Leadership Director at Chemical Market Analytics, leveraging the full portfolio of CMA’s chemical markets intelligence into informative and thought-provoking insight pieces pertinent to the whole supply chain.
Throughout her chemical market research and analysis career, Mariana served as regional/global SME of a wide breadth of sectors within the chemical industry: Aromatics (Benzene/Styrene and PX/PTA), Chemicals of the Energy Transition (Ammonia, Methanol, Hydrogen), Inorganic Chemicals (Caustic Soda, Bleaching Chemicals, Soda Ash), Polymer Films & Flexible Packaging (inc. Plastics Sustainability taskforces).
Mariana started her career at IHS, having rejoined CMA in 2024. Prior to rejoining CMA, Mariana served as Head of Aromatics, Head of Chemicals of the Energy Transition, and Films & Flexible Packaging Lead Analyst, at Wood Mackenzie.
Mariana holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon.

Vladimir Sedivy President Salt Partners Ltd.

Vladimir M. Sedivy received his MSc degree in chemical engineering (with honours) at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague and a PED diploma at the Institute of Management Development in Lausanne. He built petrochemical plants with Badger in London and evaporation plants with Sulzer Escher Wyss in Zurich. His interest in salt started in 1973 when he became a manager of salt projects in Africa and South America. He invented the HYDROSAL salt purification process with hydroextraction of impurities in 1978. As a Director of Krebs Swiss, he acquired and implemented many salt and chloralkali projects in Europe, America, Africa, Middle East and India, including turnkey contracts for leading chemical and food companies.

In 2003, Vladimir M. Sedivy established Salt Partners. Under his management, Salt Partners carried out consultancy assignments for Governments, Banks and global corporations and built SOLARSAL and HYDROSAL salt production and processing plants worldwide. Vladimir M. Sedivy is a Member of the Board of several companies. He published many articles and presented papers at international conferences.

Vladimir M. Sedivy is married and lives in Switzerland. His son Claudio and daughter Isabella are Directors of Salt Partners. Both are biologists holding PhD and MSc degrees (with honours) from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.