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Panelists:
Mr. Schwartz is the President of the consulting firm of Energy Ventures Analysis and was one of the founders of the firm in 1981. He and his firm specialize in applied analysis of energy markets, including power, coal, natural gas, oil, renewables, and emissions. EVA publishes regular reports on energy markets, including forecasts of supply, demand, and prices. EVA’s clients include energy consumers, producers, and transporters as well as investors and regulators. Mr. Schwartz manages EVA’s coal consulting practice, which includes market studies, investment analysis, procurement operations, property valuations and transaction services. Mr. Schwartz testifies on energy markets before courts and regulatory agencies and has served as an arbitrator in contract disputes. He has also served as CEO of Centennial Resources and Atlantic Carbon, two coal producers and has been an agent for power plant coal procurement activities. He received a degree in Geological Engineering from Princeton University in 1977.
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Mike Nobis is Director of Met Coal Procurement and Coke Sales for DTE Vantage. He has been involved in the coal industry since joining DTE in 2000.
Prior to assuming his current position, Mike was Director of Coal Trading for DTE Coal Services where he was responsible for leading DTE’s trading activities in the OTC markets.
Before joining DTE, Mike obtained his MBA in Finance from Michigan State University following a brief foray in the auto industry. He also holds a BA in Economics and a BS in Engineering from MSU.
David Ailor has been with the Washington, D.C.-based American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute for more than 20 years. His tenure with ACCCI includes 16 years, from 1989 – 2005, as ACCCI’s first Director of Regulatory Affairs; and, six years, from 2015 to the present, as President of the Institute.
As ACCCI President, Mr. Ailor, who reports to ACCCI’s Board of Directors, organizes and manages four off-site meetings of the Institute each year, including ACCCI’s Annual Meeting, a Business Meeting of the Board, and biannual meetings of ACCCI’s “Manufacturing, Environmental, and Safety and Health” (MESH) Committee. Additionally, he prepares and manages an annual budget for the Institute.
Mr. Ailor also has many of the same responsibilities he had from 1989 – 2005, when he served as ACCCI Director of Regulatory Affairs. His overall responsibility in this area is
monitoring and reporting to ACCCI’s membership on Federal agency actions on environmental and employee safety issues of potential concern to the membership. Related responsibilities include analyzing regulations/legislation; formulating policy positions; developing regulatory responses; and, working with the relevant regulatory agencies (EPA, OSHA) to ensure the reasonableness of the regulations being developed.
team in February 2020, Sean brings more than 30 years of passion for Ceramic Materials with expertise is Engineering, Manufacturing, Development, Marketing and Technology; a Black Belt in Six Sigma and fluent in business Spanish. Segments served include glass manufacturing, foundry applications and primary metals processes.
Sean was the Technology and Manufacturing Leader for the STELCO project, the single largest supply contract in Fosbel history.
Sean’s career at Vesuvius featured positions of Plant Manager, Product Development Laboratory Manager and following a 5 year Expatriate assignment in Monterrey Mexico, Product Line Manager for Isostatic Products. Sean graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Engineering, earned a Masters in Business Administration from Gannon University, was selected to attend the Global Leadership Program at INSEAD. As a member of the Top 100 within Vesuvius he attended the annual Global Executive retreat.
An avid cyclist, golfer, reader, and traveler.
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Nathan Hyrne is Director of ClimateBright for The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), a leader in energy and environmental products and services for power and industrial markets worldwide.
Nathan is responsible for the Company’s strategic growth in Clean Energy including B&W’s SolveBright CO2 capture system, OxyBright oxy-firing system, BrightGen hydrogen firing system, and BrightLoop hydrogen production system.
Nathan is a military veteran who then earned is Bachelor of Science, Engineering Degree. He started with Babcock & Wilcox in 2005 as a Field Service Engineer. Nathan’s role grew in complexity quickly. He was invaluable as lead commissioning engineer for a 3x700MW scrubber project that paved the way for B&W’s SolveBright CO2 scrubber design & build knowledge. His B&W project execution knowledge grew as he worked closely with process & design engineers while on site advising the construction team.
From 2009 to 2014 Nathan commissioned and tuned environmental systems for NOx, SOx, CO, Hg, & HCl reduction. He worked on coal, gas, and biomass fired power plants around the world. Clients trust in Nathan grew as he turned over reliable systems and followed up with support.
In 2015 B&W asked Nathan to lead efforts in strategic growth. He developed new projects in biomass, utility coal conversions, petrochemical, and steel. His knowledge of B&W technology and organization continues to lead to many successful projects.
Charles Dayton is an associate director of research at McCloskey by OPIS, a Dow Jones Company. He is a subject matter expert in coking coal and in supply and demand modelling and forecasting and an expert in macroeconomic analysis and how coal and steel demand are affected by macroeconomic events. He also has extensive experience working in consulting roles and interfacing with the investor community while at Doyle Trading Consultants – a predecessor company ultimately acquired by Dow Jones.
Prior to joining Dow Jones Charles headed up investor relations for coal producer Arch Resources and held a variety of market research, IT and business development positions within Arch. He also worked in equity analysis for Edward Jones - a Fortune 100 financial firm and is a former Army officer and decorated veteran having served two combat tours in Iraq.
Charles holds an undergraduate degree from William and Mary and two masters degrees: an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters in IT Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Jason Sutton- CEO (Invica Industries Ltd) Jason has vast experience as a passionate business leader, demonstrating a keen focus on developing high-quality business strategies in complex and diverse international businesses. Jason holds the position of CEO of Invica Industries Ltd. The groups business activities are underpinned by a drive towards a better environment and accelerated level of decarbonisation within hard to abate sectors. The group has interests in businesses spanning sectors such as Filtration and Purification, Smokeless and renewable solid fuels and Refractories.
• Bachelor in Metallurgical Engineering at the UFMG Federal University in Brazil.
• Product Specialist for Coke & Ironmaking at SMS group Inc.
• Worked for 10 years at SMS group in Brazil as Project Engineer and later as Sales Engineer for Cokemaking Business Unit. More recently, relocated to Pittsburgh to work at SMS group Inc. as Product Specialist and Sales Engineer for Coke & Iron Business Units.
• Through the years, had the opportunity to perform several projects around the world, including engineering development and site works such as supervision and commissioning.