PTA marketing manager of Asian aromatics department, BP(China) Holdings Limited. She graduated from Chemical Department of Tianjin University and was the EMBA of Northwestern Polytechnic University.

1994, worked in refining, PTA, polyester department successively of Sinopec Luoyang Company, in charge of technology and project.

2006 to now, worked as PTA marketing manager in Asian aromatics department of BP (China), in charge of PTA and downstream business.

BP is one of the world's leading international oil and gas companies. The headquarters is located in London. BP operates or market its products in more that 80 countries, providing customers with fuel for transportation, energy for heat and light, retail services and petrochemicals products for everyday items.

BP is also one of the largest PTA producers in the world, accounting for 14% of the global capacity. The leadership position in PTA production area began with the development of purification technology in which a hydrogenation process followed by crystallization was used to make PTA since 1958 instead of distillation to produce the ester, DMT. Since this monumental breakthrough, BP has remained the technology leader through active developments in its proprietary process. The proportion of PTA made from this technology was around 80% of the total production globally at present. BP's PTA Business continued to focus efforts on maintaining its technological edge in the industry after that. Started in early 2008, BP Zhuhai PTA #2 Project was the biggest, most technologically advanced single-train PTA unit in the world. In 2013, BP Zhuhai PTA#3 Project will adopt revolutionary ISOX technology.

Markus Schircks graduated with a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering in Switzerland.

Initially he started working as a Chemical Engineer in the Engineering Department of Sandoz (now NOVARTIS) in Switzerland where he acquired his first industrial experiences in designing and commissioning of various pharmaceutical and chemical processes.

Since 1989 Markus Schircks work with EMS-INVENTA AG, now Uhde Inventa-Fischer. For many years he took a leading position in designing and commissioning of continuous and batch polymer plants.

In 1997 Markus Schircks had switched to the sales department. Since 2000 he is responsible for Uhde Inventa-Fischer's sales and marketing activities in China.

Pankaj Kumar Sinha, an MBA (Marketing / Supply Chain), Graduate (B.E) in Mechanical Engineering with Post-Graduate Diploma in Plastic Engineering with experience of over 20 years in various fields of Polymer Industries in Domestics & International market.

His last assignment was Senior Vice President- (International Business) in Dhunseri Petrochem & Tea Ltd. from March 2003 to 25th June 2013. Prior to joining ASPET, he was an Area Sales Manager at Nissei ASB PTE, a company providing total solutions for the production of biaxially oriented stretch blown PET containers and molding equipment. He has gained over 20 years of experience in various fields of Polymer Industry, both on the domestic and international markets my strengths lie in business development and international business management in the PET Industry as well as downstream PET manufacturing technologies.

Gérard de Nazelle joined Polygenta Technologies (Mumbai/Nashik) in September 2010. Since January 2012, he also serves as the CEO of perPETual Global, the TopCo of Polygenta, which owns the IPR of the breakthrough glycolysis technology through which mixed coloured bottles are converted into clear “recycled esters = virgin esters”.

Today, Polygenta converts 1,500,000 waste PET bottles per day into 100% recycle content, premium quality polyester yarns, sold to world-class customers in India and exported worldwide. Supported by leading investors, Polygenta / perPETual’s business plan for 2012-2016 includes significant growth in India and abroad, with the commercial deployment of top quality 100% recycled based yarns from Q3 2012 onwards and the construction of five new glycolysis units in India, Singapore, Oman and Brazil.

In June 2012, perPETual Global – Polygenta won the Financial Times – International Financial Corporation Award (FT-IFC) of the “Sustainable Investment of the Year 2012”.

Before joining Polygenta he served as the first Director of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), to contribute to the improvement of Europe’s innovation performances.

He joined Shell in 1990 and was Global Manager Innovation & Research, responsible for the development of new technology options and clean energy futures until he joined the EIT. In 1994, he moved to Japan, then to Singapore, where he participated in the construction and start-up of two large petrochemical projects (1996 - 2003). He held the position of Technology Manager of Shell Seraya (Singapore), before becoming Chief Technologist of the multi-billion CNOOC-Shell project in China (2004-2007).

Dr. de Nazelle has been a member of the “Chemical and Environmental Engineering Consultative Committee” of the National University of Singapore (2001-2003). He is a member of the Expert Panel on Carbon Capture and Utilization at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A* Star) in Singapore. Other involvement into Joined Industry Partnerships (JIPs) includes his participation (representing Shell) to the CO2 Capture and Storage Committee of the Energy Technology Institute (ETI, UK). An entrepreneur in creating both profitable and sustainable businesses, Gérard de Nazelle has presented the success story of Polygenta at various conferences as a (modest) example of innovation driven growth.

He holds an MSc degree (Chem. Eng) from ENSIC (France) and a PhD (Physics) from Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).