Tokyo Petrochemical Market Briefing

Lee Shiong Lew Vice President, APAC Sales Team Lead

Lew leads the Chemical Market Analytics Sales Team in the Asia Pacific region.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the chemicals and polymers industry. Lew joined IHS Markit base chemicals business (now known as Chemical Market Analytics) in 2015, after 6 years with PPG Industries, where he was managing the sales operations for PPG in the APAC region on their specialty products and worked on business planning and project development for the Silica filled microporous Polyolefin substrate for government-issued security documents, RFID security tags, tamper-evidence security labels, and diffusion membrane applications.

Before PPG, he worked at Bayer Material Science for approximately 9 years responsible for sales and business development on various Engineering Plastics products such as Polycarbonate, PC/ABS Blend, Polyamide, Thermoplastics Polyurethane, and other engineering plastics. His recent experience includes sales management, business & technical developments, market analysis, and competitive intelligence in the plastics & polymers industry. In his later tenure at Bayer, Lew managed the Polycarbonate films business with a focus on the Automotive, Electronics, and Government & Security business segments.

Lew has led both multinationals and multifunctional teams in the areas of Sales, marketing, and technical. He has technical expertise in plastics resin and specialty plastics film processing and has also been involved in several project developments of government-issued security documents and smartcard products such as e-ID & e-Passport involving Polycarbonate and silica-filled microporous Polyolefin substrate.

Lew has a Bachelor degree in Chemistry from Campbell University in North Carolina, USA.

Terence Peh Associate Director, Aromatics and Fibres 

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.

William Chen, Ph.D Executive Director, Asia Olefins

William Chen is Executive Director at Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company.

He has expertise in industrial experience, including R&D, sales, and professional consulting services. He leads Asia Olefins business with research responsibilities for providing insight into the dynamics associated with the ethylene, propylene, C4 & derivatives value chain markets. Provide thought leadership on the markets relating to supply, demand, price, and economics, as well as competitive dynamics and changing industry structural elements. Write analyses for Weekly, Monthly, and Annual reports (Market Advisory Services and World Analyses). William also Leads the Asia Olefins business for strategic growth as well as provides ongoing commercial management. Focus on nurturing relationships with clients and deepening services as part of clients’ commercial and strategic decision-making processes. Nurture relationships with clients, including SOEs, POEs, and MNCs to deepen services as part of clients’ commercial and strategic decision-making processes. Within Chemical Market Analytics, William also has been involved in many petrochemical consulting projects and multiple client studies, including China Coal Chemical Study, Global Propane Dehydrogenation Research, and Refinery-cracker/aromatic complex feasibility study.

Prior to Chemical Market Analytics, William worked for ChemChina. At the company, William started as a chemical engineer in the Lanzhou fiber plant, in Northwest China. Then, he moved back to Beijing to focus on downstream application development. In the last two years with ChemChina, William took charge of sales and marketing responsibility in NE Asia.

William earned Ph.D from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and majored in Polymer Chemistry and Physics. William is based in Beijing China.

Utpal Sheth Executive Director, Asia Plastics & Polymer

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.