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Host: Duane Dickson, vice chairman | Deloitte LLP
Presenters: Katie Pavlovsky and Noemie Tilghman.
1 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
In many ways, the past year was an economic, political, regulatory, and competitive rollercoaster for the oil, gas, and chemicals industry. What new factors are likely to shape the industry in the coming year and beyond? We'll discuss:
- Sector by sector outlooks on key trends likely to impact markets in 2021
- Insights on legislative, regulatory, and policy decisions likely to affect the industry
- Practical considerations for strategic planning
Meet the speakers
Duane Dickson
Duane Dickson is a vice chairman and principal in Deloitte LLP’s Energy Resources & Industrials industry group, as well as the US Oil, Gas & Chemicals sector leader and the Global Energy, Resources & Industrials Consulting leader. Additionally, he is the former Americas Process leader and the former Global Chemicals & Specialty Materials sector leader for Deloitte Global. Duane served as a World Economic Forum’s (Forum) project advisor and the forum’s chemical community lead, chemistry and advanced materials. He focuses on providing services in corporate and growth strategies; acquisitions, divestitures, and carve-outs; and general management, working primarily with chemicals, materials, industrial products, consumer packaged goods, medical devices, and safety equipment industries. Duane has more than 38 years of business and consulting experience in senior leadership positions in major industrial and healthcare products companies. Duane also has extensive experience serving as a senior executive focusing on operations and transactions. Duane is well-known and respected in the oil, gas, and chemicals sector and has been invited to present his insights on Advanced Material Systems, Future of Chemicals, and Corporate Strategies at major global chemicals events including those sponsored by the Forum and Société de Chimie Industrielle. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal for a leading-edge point-of-view on chemical industry cyclicality, receiving coverage on the front page. Duane is the primary author of the Deloitte Global studies, The chemical multiverse 4.0, The talent imperative in the global chemical industry, The feedstocks prism, Driving innovation, Reigniting growth, The chemical multiverse, and The decade ahead. He served as the contributing author to 2018 Global chemical industry mergers and acquisitions outlook and End market alchemy. Duane holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at London Business School. For more information, please visit Duane’s page on LinkedIn. Follow Duane on Twitter at @Duane_Dickson.
Kathryn Pavlovsky
As a principal in Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory, Katie currently serves as the leader of the Business Insurance Claims Consulting and the Energy, Resources & Industrials (ER&I) industry practices. Katie brings more than 20 years of experience assisting clients with damages assessments, lost profit calculations, insurance claims preparation, and disputes and investigations. In her ER&I industry leadership role, she manages over 1,000 Deloitte professionals in the areas of Transactions, M&A, Regulatory/Legal Support, Cyber, Strategic Risk, and Accounting/Internal Controls services. Prior to these roles, Katie led Deloitte’s Environmental & Sustainability Consulting services and subsequently held practice leadership roles in the oil and gas, and power and utilities sectors, working with clients and Boards of Directors to assess and manage risks to corporate, functional, and operational strategies.
Noemie Tilghman
Noemie is a principal with Deloitte Consulting LLP where she leads the US Oil, Gas & Chemicals Consulting practice. Noemie specializes in multi-functional, global service strategy and operating model design programs which drive large-scale cost reduction, process efficiency and effectiveness improvements. Additionally, she also serves as the go-to-market leader for Deloitte’s proprietary Visual Decision Xccelerator (VDXTM) tool.
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