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Johanna
A. Akkerman King
President, Director and Chief Executive Officer
As a RAKI co-founder, Johanna A. Akkerman King is involved
in all non-technical aspects of the company, including
accounting, corporate and operations management. personnel
and recruiting, proposals, and sales related documentation.
Along with her special emphasis on legal and contract
issues, King leads the Total Quality and Human Resource
Development Division of RAKI and is heavily involved
in the Program Management efforts of the company. She
also served as director and finally chairman of the
board of directors of a Seattle, Washington company
involved in super-oxygenation of water and is on the
steering committee of a joint venture company in Lehi,
Utah, specializing in reclamation of coal and metals
from waste products. King graduated from St. Martin's
MULO, Voorburg, Netherlands with diplomas in four languages
(English, Dutch, French, German) and special emphasis
on mathematics and accounting (preliminary degree) and
then graduated from Pont Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
with diplomas in four languages (English, Dutch, French,
German). Other subjects covered by the diplomas include
commercial translation, basic trade law, and public
relations with emphasis on advertising and product promotion.
She also completed a two year course with BIET (British
Institute of Engineering Technology, London, England)
in applied mathematics and a two year course with NTI
(Netherlands Language Institute, The Hague, Netherlands)
in Latin and Greek. She is fully certified by Total
Quality Institute, Resource Associates Corporation,
and ASI to train, facilitate and implement total quality
management, human resource development programs and
coordinate corporate efforts to institute programs.
Oscar
Ruiz Carmona
General Director, Mexico
Working in environmental control since 1990, Oscar Ruiz
Carmona was responsible for designing, installing, and
commissioning several water and waste water plants through
SARCO Consultores Profesionales S.A. de C.V. and presently
serves as the general manager of STAGS, an enterprise
for environmental control mainly involved with waste
water treatment and oily residues management. In Mexico,
he has participated in a tanneries pilot plant for Tanneries
Asociacion Nacional de Curtidores (ANACU); waste water
plants for oily waters for various clients in Puebla
and Queretaro; various waste water plants for textile
laundries in Puebla; and sewage treatment plants for
clients in Mexico City, Morelos, Puebla, and Queretaro.
Recently he has been developing some innovative designs
for small waste water systems, both for domestic and
industrial applications, using aerobic, biological filter,
and physical chemical treatments. Early in his career,
Carmona worked at the Instituto Mexicano de Petroleo
(IMP).In 1967 he stared there process design, later
moving to project engineering administration and environmental
project design. He's also made important contributions
in natural gas treatment, LP gas liquefaction, crude/gas
separation, gas dehydration, crude and light hydrocarbon
distillation and waste-water treatment. Various PEMEX
plants apply this technology. On its 50th Foundation
Anniversary, PEMEX honored Carmona with First Prize
of the Petroleum Technological Development and he was
give the Chevalier de L'Ordre du Merite by the French
Republic. An process engineering and design expert,
Carmona is registered in El Colegio Nacional de Ingenieros
Quimicos y Quimicos (CONIQ) and has been a member of
the Organizaciones Profesionales Nacionales board of
directors. Currently, he is an active member of Instituto
Mexicano de Ingenieros Quimicos (IMIQ), American Institute
of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Water Works
Association (AWWA), and Water Environment Federation
(WEF). Carmona has graduate degree in Chemical Engineering
from Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (with a first) and
a masters in Chemical Engineering with a specialization
in Mass Transfer from the University of London at the
Imperial College. Additionally, he has taken diverse
specialized courses, most significantly thermodynamics
of hydrocarbons at low temperatures, in Ann Arbor, Michigan
and Stillwater, Oklahoma, and taught courses at his
alma mater.
Levon
G. Garabette
Vice President Great Britain
Levon G. Garabette is responsible for European operations.
Duties have included being project manager during the
construction of a 125,000 barrel per day grass roots
refinery in Tunisia. The project also required his technical
abilities for feasibility studies for refinery configuration,
documentation for project funding, and front-end engineering.
Working for Robert A. King and RAKI, Garabetter has
managed and directed technical operations worldwide,
being part of the inception by preparing feasibility
and financing recommendations and following through
in all stages of the project. Earlier in his career,
Garabette served as Manager of International Operations
for Suedrohrbau GmbH & Co. and was a Managing Consultant
for Technology Exchange Bureau Ltd. Career highlights
including managing multi-discipline teams for a grass
roots 100,000 BPSD fuels refinery complex in Japan and
a lubes refinery complex in Nigeria. Both projects required
Garabette to oversee project definition, site selection,
bid specification, contract negotiations, and execution.
In the Netherlands, Garabette was project manager for
the design, procurement and construction for a urethane
polymer plant and served and provided process and design
engineering for a fine chemicals plant. He also coordinated
and supervised the contractor's work on the basic engineering
package for a $100 million refinery expansion project
based in the US and Spain. Technical expertise extends
to serving as the process design engineer for a plant
producing acetic acid, chlorinated solvents, melamine,
styrene, sulphuric acid cement from byproduct gypsum,
and urea. Garabette has a B.Sc. Tech (Hons)
Chemical Engineering, Chartered Engineer and is a Fellow
of the Institute of Chemical Engineers. He speaks Arabic,
English, French, and German.
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