2007 High Purity Water Conference
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Henry G. Nowicki, Ph.D.
  Dr. Nowicki earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology. He obtained a Ph.D. in Organic-Biochemistry in 1972 and the M.B.A. in 1984.
Dr. Nowicki worked for five years as U.S. Army toxicologist and forensic scientist in St.
 
Henry G. Nowicki, Ph.D.
  Louis, San Antonio, and Japan. He set up the first mass-spectrometer for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL) in Japan. He taught science courses for University of Chicago and University of Maryland for three years while in Japan as a forensic toxicologist for the USACIL.

Before starting Professional Analytical and Consulting Services, Inc. (PACS) based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Orlando, Florida, he worked for Calgon, subsidiary of Merck, for ten years where he developed carbon adsorption, mass spectrometry, management and environmental skills.

Dr. Nowicki has been an expert witness for military prosecutions, corporate suits, and some of the largest U.S. environmental cases.
 
 
William Laidlaw
William Laidlaw
  Mr. Laidlaw attended the University of Minnesota and graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry. He then worked as a Research Chemist in the adhesives, sealants and coatings industry. While working as Research Chemist, he completed an M.B.A.  
  at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Upon graduation from the M.B.A. program in 1987, he moved from R&D to Product Management. He then worked in several different Marketing positions for companies in the Minneapolis area, primarily in industrial markets. He joined General Electric Water and Process Technologies in 2002 as a Market Manager. In 2005, he was appointed Global Product Line Director for the Filtration Business Unit, which is his present position.  
 
Patrick Banes
  Mr. Banes is the Regional Sales Manager for Oakley Specialized Services, Inc., Metuchen, New Jersey, where he has worked since 1981. His responsibilities at Oakley include market development and project engineering for the pharmaceutical and  
Patrick Banes
  biotech industries. Mr. Banes holds a B.A. in Zoology and a minor in Chemistry from the University of New Hampshire. He has taken several graduate inorganic chemistry courses at Rutgers University. He is a member of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineers (New Jersey Chapter) and former subcommittee member for the ISPE Baseline Pharmaceutical Engineering Guide.

He has given presentations on the subject of passivation of stainless steel for the ASME BPE, ISPE, PDA, ASTM, AICHE, Interphex and other technical education organizations. His papers on passivation and derouging have been published in Microcontamination, Pharmaceutical Engineering, and Ultrapure Water magazines.
 
 
Teri C. “T.C.” Soli, Ph.D.
Teri C. “T.C.” Soli, Ph.D.
  Dr. Soli is the Principal Consultant for Soli Pharma Solutions. He has 28 years of pharmaceutical industry experience covering the areas of analytical development for chemistry and microbiology, quality control, project management, regulatory affairs,  
  business development, process validation and troubleshooting, and all aspects of pharmaceutical water systems.

He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Microbiology from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Arizona. He served 18 years on PhRMA’s Water Quality Committee, where his most notable accomplishment was the total revamping of USP’s monographs for Purified Water and Water for Injection. He has been on advisory panels to USP and is currently a member of the USP Pharmaceutical Waters Expert Committee.

T.C. has authored or co-authored numerous papers and lectured extensively on various aspects of pharmaceutical water chemistry and microbiology. In his spare time, when he is not in his garden or speaking at conferences, he does some independent water system consulting on the side.
 
 
Speakers
Jeff Tate
  Mr. Tate is President at Agape Water Solutions, Inc., Harleysville, PA. Agape Water Solutions, Inc. is the Master Service Provider in North America for Ionpure Technologies, a leading manufacturer of Electrodeionization modules. Jeff previously  
Jeff Tate
  was Sales Manager for E-Cell Corporation and President of Omexell, Inc. (now part of Dow Filmtec). He developed the market for Electrodeionization in North and South America, and is experienced with plate and frame and spiral wound EDI.

He has engineered, serviced and troubleshot hundreds of RO and EDI systems worldwide and is experienced in filtration and Ion Exchange. He has written numerous technical articles and has presented at numerous conferences as a recognized worldwide expert in reverse osmosis and electrodeionization. Jeff graduated with high honors from Drexel University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A from Temple University.
 
 
Theodore H. Meltzer, Ph.D.
Theodore H. Meltzer, Ph.D.
  Dr. Meltzer is a consultant in filtration and high purity water primarily to the pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries. His interests center on the technical requirements of marketing applications, on water system critiques and  
  logic, and on validation concerns and practices. He has served as an expert in legal litigations in these fields.

He has published some 100 papers, holds four patents, and has authored two books entitled, Filtration in the Pharmaceutical Industry and High-Purity Water Preparation for the Semiconductor, Pharmaceutical and Power Industries. He has authored or co-authored chapters on “Ultraviolet and Ozone Systems”, “Pharmaceutical Water: Generation, Storage and Distribution”, “Filtrative Sterilization with Microporous Membranes”, and “The Sizing of Microporous Membrane Systems”.

Trained as a polymer chemist as well as a filtration specialist, he holds a B.S. in chemistry from the College of the City of New York, an M.A. in Preparative Organic and Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin, a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the University of Chicago, and has performed postdoctoral work on the mechanical properties of polymers at Princeton University.
 
 
David Ferguson
  Mr. Ferguson is an Electrical Engineer at Pureflow. His primary duties include designing and programming the control systems associated with the high purity water equipment manufactured by Pureflow, as well as supporting design engineers and  
David Ferguson
  service technicians in initial system estimation and system service, respectively. David has over 10 years of programming and engineering research experience and an increasing knowledge of automation systems in the high purity water industry.

His previous employment includes serving as a service technician in the information technology sector and as a research assistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Duke University. David holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Signal Processing from Duke University, Durham, NC.
 
 
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