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 nine 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 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.