Kenexis' consulting and engineering services depend on a staff of highly trained and experienced experts. Some of the key staff members and their professional profiles are shown below.

Edward M. Marszal PE, ISA84 Expert
President

Mr. Marszal has over ten years of experience in the design and implementation of engineered safeguards, such as safety instrumented systems, relief systems, alarm systems, and fire and gas systems, in the process industries. Mr. Marszal is President of Kenexis and responsible for engineered safeguard design basis development and verification/validation projects. In his current position he has solid experience in SIS implementation and risk analysis projects for a variety of process plants in diverse world-wide locations. Marszal began his career with UOP, a licensor of process units to the petroleum and petrochemical industries, where he performed field verification of control and safety instrumented systems at customer sites, and designed and managed development of custom control and SIS projects. After leaving UOP, Mr. Marszal led a number of risk analysis / engineered safeguard consulting teams culminating in the establishment of Kenexis. Mr. Marszal is committed to providing education on chemical process loss prevention. He teaches many of the Kenexis courses and an ISA course on SIL selection and layer of protection analysis, and he also provides regular lectures and loss prevention to the Ohio State University undergraduate program. In addition to training, Mr. Marszal is a prolific author, including numerous technical papers and the award winning ISA book Safety Integrity Level Selection. Mr. Marszal is very involved in the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation (ISA) society. Mr. Marszal holds a number of leadership positions at the national and local levels. He is currently Director of the Safety Division and Vice-President of his local section. Mr. Marszal participates on ISA standards committees, including SP 84 for safety instrumented systems and SP 18 for alarm systems. He also peer reviews papers for ISA Technical Conferences and ISA Transactions.

Edward Marszal

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Kevin J. Mitchell PE, ISA 84 SFS, SVS
Vice President

Mr. Mitchell has worked in the risk management and process safety fields for over fourteen years. Involved in over 100 projects covering such diverse operations as oil & gas production, refining, petrochemical, specialty chemical and general manufacturing. Specializes in state-of-the-art assessment of the risk of toxic, flammable, and explosive materials on people, property, the environment, and, ultimately, the business. Uses risk assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis to assist in making engineering and business decisions.

Mr. Richardson has over thirty years of experience in the design and implementation of engineered safeguards, such as safety instrumented systems and alarm systems in the process industries. Mr. Richardson is a Principal Engineer of Kenexis and is responsible for engineered safeguard design basis development and verification/validation projects.  In his current position he has solid experience in SIS implementation and risk analysis projects for a variety of process plants in diverse world-wide locations. Mr. Richardson’s career has been primarily with UOP, a licensor of process units to the petroleum and petrochemical industries. While there he performed field verification of control and safety instrumented systems at customer sites, designed and managed development of custom control and SIS projects and was a technical resource within UOP for the safety review, design, construction and programming of control and SIS projects. Mr. Richardson was also a Technical Services engineer for petrochemicals supporting UOP’s customers and provided training at customer sites. Mr. Richardson earned several patents during his time at UOP in the areas of process and process control. Mr. Richardson has participated on ISA standards committees, including SP 84 for safety instrumented systems.  He also peer reviews papers for ISA Technical Conferences and ISA Transactions.

Mr. Singer has over 15 years experience in information technology security including 7 years specializing in industrial automation and control systems security, critical infrastructure protection, and counter-terrorism. Mr. Singer’s background focuses on software development, network design, information security, and industrial security.  Industry experience includes healthcare, telecommunications, water/wastewater, automotive, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, fossil and hydro power generation, oil and gas, and several others.  Mr. Singer has specialized in process intelligence and manufacturing disciplines such as historians, industrial networking, Power and Energy Management (PEMS), Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES), Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) and others.