Brad Rector Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

Global CIO for Solvay SA, a Brussels headquartered industrial group listed on the Paris and Brussels exchanges (ENXTBR:SOLB). Solvay has 42 industrial sites and 7 R&D centers in 20 countries, producing sodium carbonate, peroxides, Highly Dispersible Silica (HDS), solvents, phenols, polyamide derivatives, high-purity sodium bicarbonate, fluorine, and rare-earth formulations. Revenues for these business units were 5.6 bn Euros (2022 data). The IT environment (including the prior demerged Syensqo business units through 2025), encompasses 25k users across 200 global networked sites. Direct report to the CEO.[+ personal] Board of Directors for Ascension St. John Jane Phillips Medical - nine facilities across two states as part of Ascension Healthcare Company (largest non-profit health system in the US). Active: 2019 to present.

Brussels, Be

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

Additional role from Oct 2022: Head of Marketing DepartmentAdditional role from Oct 2022: TSA Executive (transition service agreement) for divestiture to Baker Hughes of Quest Integrity

Sugar Land, Texas, Us

Team Industrial Services (NYSE:TISI) is a global provider of digitally-enabled asset performance and optimization solutions. Through 6,000 employees in 20 countries, TEAM provides specialty industrial services including inspection, assessment, and repair required for power, chemical, refining, nuclear, pulp and paper, offshore oil, renewables, aerospace, and defense industries. These customized solutions typically address high-temperature and high-pressure piping systems and vessels, along with other critical industrial assets.

Houston, Texas, Us

Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) is a global diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company (14,500 employees with 2018 revenues of $111 billion). With a portfolio of Chemical, Refining, Midstream, Specialties, and Marketing businesses, the company processes, transports, stores, trades, and markets fuels and products globally.[personal] Advisory Board Member for SymphonyAI, a Silicon Valley, California early stage incubation and venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence. 2017 - 2019.

Paris, Fr

Chief Information Officer and Vice President IT for Air Liquide Americas. The Americas for Air Liquide compromised revenues of $9.3 billion, 27,000 employees, and 1800 networked sites in manufacturing, chemical, distribution, pipeline, retail, medical, and R&D processes. [additional] Board of Directors for Alizent Inc., an independent but fully owned affiliate of the Air Liquide Group with majority of outside sales. Alizent connects and automates assets using leading-edge sensors and control technologies. 2016 - 2018.

East Windsor, New Jersey, Us

Group CIO for Elementis, a global specialty chemical company listed on the London stock exchange (LON:ELM). Elementis had revenues of over 500 million British Pounds (2012), and employed 1,600 people at 30 locations worldwide.

Houston, Tx, Us

Management roles:Aug 2009 to Sept 2010 - Worldwide IT Infrastructure Operations: Infrastructure technical operations for LyondellBasell (NYSE:LYB - 2009 sales of $31 billion, 15,000 employees, chemical & refined products at 59 facilities in 18 countries). Scope included 14k PCs, voice systems, data storage, TelePresence, and 2000 network devices at 90 sites. Returned to Houston from Germany following Lyondell's declaration of bankruptcy in late 2008.Feb 2008 to Aug 2009 [expat assignment in GERMANY] – Application Development and IT Relationship Management for the global Polymers BU. Relocated to Köln Germany for the purpose of merging IT best practices post-merger. Applications & process consulting for Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, & Logistics. Staff in Europe, US, and India.2007 to 2008 - IT Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing: Development & process consulting for Supply Chain, eBusiness, Sales & Marketing including CRM and SAP’s Price & Margin Management (Vendavo).2004 to 2007 - Security Technology: Architecture, strategy, firewalls, vulnerability analysis, risk management, SOX tech lead, IT/OT connectivity, and M&A due diligence from cyber perspective.2003 to 2004 - Enterprise Information Management: Engineering and contracts document management system (OpenText Documentum) including strategy development for creation and destruction of electronic content. Managed public web sites and Records Retention (co-owned with Legal).2000 to 2003 [expat assignment in HONG KONG, China] - SAP Asia Pacific Project plus regional IT Operations: Led SAP and business intelligence project in Asia with team of 6 spread across China, Singapore, US, & Mexico. After implementation, added infrastructure management to role (Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Singapore). Dual report to President of Asia and a member of Asia Management Team.1998 to 2000 – SAP Business Intelligence (data warehouse) and application development for Accounting, HR, Legal, Tax, & Treasury.

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Management consultant utilizing SAP for Mobil Oil (pre-Exxon merger) in Washington DC and Pennzoil in Houston.

Engineering Group Leader and SAP Project Manager (representative for manufacturing sites)

Us

Maintenance mechanical engineer responsible for three sulfuric acid plants (now part of Dow Chemical).

Us

Mechanical engineer responsible for oilfiled facilities

Mba, Business Finance

Bs, Mechanical Engineering