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, CFSE
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, CFSE
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.