Mark Isaacs

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering is a nonprofit association that focuses on scientific, technical, and regulatory advancement throughout the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle. The non-profit company is based in Tampa, FL. The company engages with all levels of regulators to ensure that their education, training, document development, and interpretation are cutting-edge and focused on enabling the production and supply of therapies and devices with unmatched levels of flow, efficiency, and quality sustainably and at scale. John Bournas has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

For more than a decade, Aegis Analytical has provided Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence solutions that help leading companies such as Abbott Labs, Baxter, Biogen Idec, Cephalon, Eli Lilly, Genzyme, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Serono and Talecris to realize manufacturing operations excellence. Aegis' Discoverant software solution helps process manufacturers access, aggregate, contextualize and analyze data on-demand from raw materials to final product in both production and process development environments. Discoverant enables customers to accelerate products to market, increase supply chain efficiencies, reduce the cost of new process start-up, quality compliance, improve process predictability and collaboration across captive or outsourced sites. By enabling a laser-like focus on the performance of the manufacturing process itself, Discoverant is the foundation of Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence and a critical application for initiatives such as Tech Transfer, CMC, Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Quality Verification and Supply Chain Efficiency.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a professional society with over 60,000 members in more than 110 countries. The private company is based in New York, NY, and has subsidiaries in the United States. AIChE offers various programs, including e-learning, webinars, and career advancement, to help chemical engineers at every career juncture bridge the skills gap created by the rush of technology, changing work styles, and unprecedented societal needs. Founded in 1908, AIChE is a focal point for information exchange on the frontiers of chemical engineering research in areas such as energy, sustainability, biological and environmental engineering, nanotechnology, and chemical plant safety and security.

Part of Emerson Electric Co., Hyprotech Ltd. is a Canadian company that provides process simulation and engineering software services to the petroleum industry. The company is based in Calgary, Canada. The company was founded by Anthony Vysniauskas. Hyprotech was acquired by AspenTech Corp., a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co., from AEA Technology Plc on May 31, 2002 for $99 million.

AEA Technology Plc provides climate change consultancy, delivering visionary and integrated environmental solutions worldwide. The company also solves environmental challenges in the organizations. The company is headquartered in Didcot, the United Kingdom.

Conformia Software, Inc. provides product conformance management software solutions for life sciences and beverage alcohol processing industries. The company was founded by Anjali R. Kataria and Neil Kataria in July 2000 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.