Alain Pardon
Manager EHS IMEC, Chairman of SSA Europe

Eugene Y. Ngai
Director of ER and Disposal Technology, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Eugene has 35 years of Specialty Gas Experience in Production, Laboratory, R&D, Engineering, Safety positions. Was the Vice President of Technology for Solkatronic Chemicals for 10 years prior to the Air Products acquisition in 1999 with responsibility for EHS, Engineering, Information Technology, Research and Development, and Quality. Most recently he was Director of CS Technology in the Electronics Division and is now Director of ER and Disposal Technology in the Product Safety Group. He started the Emergency Response Equipment and Training group in 1990. He is the Course Director for a 3 day Specialty Gas Emergency Response course, which has trained over 4000 customers, government agencies and employees and over 750 Firefighters in Compressed Gas Safety and Emergency Response. He has 4 US patents for Gas Safety Devices and 2 pending for new Purification Technology.

Cynthia L. Hughes
Sr. Product Engineer, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Cynthia graduated from Penn State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. She has been employed with Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for the past 9 years, working as a specialty gas systems designer, manufacturing engineer and product engineer. Currently, she is the Senior Product engineer responsible for the Gasguard Product line of electronics specialty equipment. In that role, she has been managing the ventilation testing and design changes needed to meet the new US Silane requirements.


Roger Smith
Technical Director, Compressed Gas Association
Roger Smith is the Technical Director for the Compressed Gas Association (CGA), which promotes the safe manufacture, transportation, storage, trans-filling, and disposal of industrial and medical gases and their containers, located in Chantilly, Virginia. Mr. Smith has 35 years experience in the industrial and medical gas industry with 25 years in operations. Industry experience includes the management of manufacturing facilities, both single and multiple site operations, and as Senior Vice President of Operations, directed of all activities related to manufacturing, engineering, regulatory affairs, quality assurance and research and development for 8 years at Matheson Gas Products.

Jean-Paul Barbier
Specialty Gas Director, Air Liquide
Jean-Paul Barbier has a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Organo-metallic chemistry. He has worked for the last 28 years at Air Liquide and has held a variety of scientific and technical positions both in France and in the US, primarily in Electronic Specialty Gases. He is now the Air Liquid Group Technical Senior Expert and in the field of Specialty Gases for both semiconductor and laboratory and analysis markets. He represents Air Liquide at the European Industrial Gas Association (EIGA) as Chairman of Working Groups for the writing of Codes of Practice for "Compressed oxidant-fuel gas mixtures manufacturing" and on "Fluorine.

Vinnie De Georgio
Principal Engineer, FM Global Inc.
Vinnie DeGiorgio is the semiconductor Principal Engineer for FM Global and provides company-wide technical leadership. He has over 27 years of property loss control and business impact risk assessment experience associated with the semiconductor and related high technology industries. Vinnie is particularly knowledgeable of the Asian semiconductor industry as a result of numerous site visits to Asia. Vinnie has a BS Degree in Engineering and a MS Degree in Fire Protection Engineering. He maintains memberships in the NFPA, SFPE and SESHA. He is the secretary of the NFPA 318 Technical Committee on Cleanrooms and on the Board of Directors for SESHA.

Owen Metcalf
Materials Engineer, REC Silicon
Owen Metcalf is a Materials Engineer for REC Silicon (formerly ASiMI), in Butte, MT. In this role, she has been instrumental in the design and fabrication of packages for silicon gasses filling, transportation, and discharge. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and Welding Engineering from Montana Tech of the University of Montana. Megan is a Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) and serves as an adjunct welding and metallurgy professor for the University.


James Van Ommeren
Process Safety Engineering Associate, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
James VanOmmeren joined Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in 1981 and has held various technical assignments within the corporation, including Development and Process Engineering. In 1993, he joined Process Safety Engineering supporting high purity hazardous materials and equipment for Electronics use. He is an Engineering Associate and is the Global Process Safety Lead for Air Products’ Electronics Specialty Materials Division. Jim is responsible for Process Safety involving Electronics equipment manufacturing, gases and chemicals manufacturing, transportable containers, and operational services provided to customers. He specializes in various qualitative risk review and quantitative risk calculation methodologies, and provides safety training globally to employees, customers, local authorities, and emergency responders. Jim received his BSChE from University of Delaware in 1981 and is currently a member of several CGA and CCPS subcommittees. He has authored several papers, given presentations at global symposiums, and holds eight patents dealing with gas and cryogenic processing.

Susan Creighton
S. Creighton Consulting
Sue Creighton has been an EHS professional for 20 years with experience in biotech and semiconductor safety.  Ms. Creighton has worked for Applied Biosystems, IBM, Applied Materials and EORM.  She recently became an independent consultant providing Product and Occupational Consulting and training.  Her expertise includes EHS Management, Product Compliance, Accident Investigation, Emergency Response and EHS Training.  She has published on the subject of Silicon By-Product Reactions and has traveled to Europe and Asia conducting accident investigations with by-product reactions insemiconductor equipment.  She has bachelors in Physics and is a Certified Safety Professional.

Al Brown
Managing Director, Rushbrook Consultants
Al Brown is a leading specialist in fire and risk engineering and assessment, with particular expertise in the semiconductor and TFT-LCD industries, including assessment of manufacturing equipment and processes as well as semiconductor gas and chemical facilities. Before founding Rushbrook Consultants in 1999 he spent 14 years with FM Global where he was the Staff Engineering Semiconductor Industry Specialist and contributor to the development of FM 7-7 including the section on protection of Bulk Silane systems.  He is regularly involved the development of risk mitigation strategies, as well as the design of fire protection systems for semiconductor wafer and LCD fabs in Europe and SE Asia.  Al is a registered professional engineer in the UK, and member of the Institution of Fire Engineers, Society of Fire Protection Engineers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He is a member of the NFPA 318 Technical Committee, Co-chair of SEMI Europe EHS Committee and co-leader of the Fire Protection and Risk Assessment Task Forces.