Bob has over 40 years of experience in petroleum refining, petrochemicals, and renewable fuels including 20 years with Koch Industries and 13 years with CITGO Petroleum in a variety of leadership positions. Bob has spent the past 9 years working as an independent consultant strengthening the implementation of improvements in the areas of personnel safety, process safety, operations reliability, and gross margin improvement for a large number of operating companies throughout the world. Bob also works with a number of operating companies and investors helping them to evaluate investments in new and existing technologies and assets as well as divestitures of existing assets. Bob has a BS ChE from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA-Finance from the University of Minnesota and is on the board of directors of three operating companies.