Profile Experienced, highly accomplished, multi-lingual CHEMICAL ENGINEER with extensive international knowledge of multi-phase reactors, technologies &

processes spann ing 26 year's with BP, 4 years with GREATPOINT ENERGY (GPE) and 1 year with DOW CHEMICAL, seeking a leadership role within Dow Corning/Hemlock Semiconductor. Pr oven history of successful commissioning, plant de-bottlenecks, and improving re liability & production capacity at BP's, INEOS and GreatPoint Energy's manufactu ring facilities. Unique strengths in fluidization, solids handling, catalytic f ine particle processing with emphasis on process modeling, scale up & troublesho oting; proven track record for increasing Business performance & profitability. Published Ph.D with a reputation for delivering technology with excellence. Re spected team player; self-motivated, enthusiastic with rigorous methodological a nalysis. Currently employed with Dow Chemical Co., corporate R&D. Experience Dow Chemical, Midland, MI - 2010 (Current Employer) Fellow, Core R&D, Engineering Sciences: Responsible for modeling, scale-up and design of a new, proprietary fluid bed process for the production of hydrocarbon s (Dow Hydrocarbons & Energy). From November 2010 through January, 2011 I work ed closely with the DPHOST process team (engineering, manufacturing, R&D) helped model, debottleneck, troubleshoot Dow Corning's fluid bed Tri-Chlore Silane (TS C) plants with in Hemlock. Michigan, with over $1bn installed capacity in Michig an and Tennessee. GreatPoint Energy, Chicago, IL - 2006 to 2009 Chief Technologist, Acting C.T.O.: Responsible for developing, leveraging and i mplementing all technologies needed for the commercial scale-up of GPE's catalyt ic and oxy-blown gasifiers. Responsible for the design and management of GPE's pilot plant facility for the catalytic gasification of PRB (Powder River Basin) Coal and Petroleum coke to SNG or H2. Director Process Engineering & Modeling: Responsible for the development and im plementation of mathematical kinetic, reaction engineering, hydrodynamic, CFD mo dels to optimize GreatPoint Energy's process technologies. Model development ra nged from mechanistic kinetic modeling to computation fluid dynamics with a team of in-house and external experts. Inventor of GPE's flagship technology, direc t O2 for SNG production and holder of many of GPE's key bluegasTM process & cata lyst technology patents including: reactor design, agglomeration prevention, p article morphology and control during gasification, and many others. BP Amoco & SOHIO, Global - 1981 to 2006 Lead Technologist: Led a global technology team for enhancing the yield and rel iability of BP's global Nitriles, GEMINOX and Innovene businesses. Commissioned and debottlenecked a world-scale Geminox MAH (Maleic Anhydride) and BDO (Butane -Diol) plant, expanding throughput rate from 50% to 100% of design production. Created distinctive value from BP assets in support of license strategy by findi ng & delivering safe, reliable & flexible solutions & implementing appropriate t echnologies to solve ongoing challenges. Increased the value of BP's technology for license, developed new tools for reactor design, improved models and scaleup methodologies; brought to fruition new projects for CAPEX & OPEX reduction; a chieved significant increases in annual output while improving operating profit of manufacturing facilities. BP Group Network Leader: Global technology leader for fluidization, solids hand ling and multiphase flow and reaction problems. Developed and managed BP's best practices for modeling granular-fluid unit operations and reliability. Built u p the CFD modeling capability within the Polyolefin area. Gatekeeper with the B P Group for best practices for models on cyclone, entrainment, pneumatic transfe r, fluidization, reactor design and solids handling/classification Project Manager / Startup Team Leader: Lead the team for the relocation, recons truction, startup and optimization of SOHIO acrylonitrile plants in China, Europ e, Africa and Taiwan. Multi-Business Process Expertise across the BP Group's Petrochemicals and Cataly st sectors including:

* Nitriles (Acrylonitrile, Acetonitrile, HCN), * Silica and Catalyst Manufacture (Lima Nitriles) * Specialty Polymers (Barex 210, 410 Resins) * Fluid Bed Maleic Anhydride/Butane Diol * Olefins & Polyolefins (PP, PE) * Polymer Cracking * Acetyls, VAM * Gasification Diamond Shamrock, Chardon and Painesville, Ohio - 1979 to 1980 Co-op Student: Engineering support on Diamond Shamrock's Electrolytic-Chloride electrode technology and Polyvinyl Chloride (latex & Autoclave Batch Polymeriza tion Reactor operations) Education * B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. Chemical Engineering - Case Western Reserve University (H onors) * Ph.D. Dissertation: "Effect of Fines on Hydrodynamics & Performance of FCC & A CN Catalysts". * Licensed Professional Engineer, State of Ohio, 1981. Awards * Chairman's HSE Award, April 4, 1994, Deepwell Waste Elimination * BP Innovation Award for Ideas and Action, November, 1995 * BP Helios Gold Medal (1997), - BP's highest technical award * BP "High Impact Story of the Year" BP Global Polymers (2003) * Chemicals Innovation - Step-Out Chemical Projects - BP Global Polymers (2004) Skills and Training 1982 Making Presentations 1987 Effective Negotiating 1983 Effective Writing for Engineers 1988 Management Skills for Professionals 1984 Kepner Tregoe 1989 Positive Power and Influence 1995 Stage II Safety Reviews and Hazop Training 1996 BP Leadership Development P rogram 1998 French Language (Fluent) 2003 Peer Assist Acetyls, Nitriles, etc... Competencies include Project Management and leadership training, CFD & multiphas e flow modeling; Electrostatics & static control techniques; Fouling and agglome ration prevention; state-of-art Process Monitoring techniques, and all aspects o f fluidized beds and multiphase Reactor design and engineering. Referrals provided upon request Organizations & Committees * USA: PSRI, EERC and OSU Industrial Consortium Fluid & Particle Reaction Engi neering, AIChE, PSRI * UK: Institute for Multiphase Flow (Cambridge) * EUROPE: SPIN & COSTT FFF, Cape-21, PEPT, CREL and CFD Users Group Patents and Patent Applications A partial list of some recent patents filed or applied is attached (below) Publications & Invited Presentations provided upon request Previous Job Roles (STANDARD OIL/BP/INEOS) 1981-1982 Operations Engineer, SOHIO (Victoria, Texas) : Production engineer fo r world's largest Acrylonitrile production facility (1 billion lb/yr) from propy lene.

1982 - 83 Process/Design Engineer - SOHIO Acrylonitrile (Cleveland, Ohio) Licensing Engineer, SOHIO Nitriles (Italy and Spain) 1983 - 1992 Commissioning/Licensing Engineer - SOHIO (Cleveland, Ohio) Plant startup engineer for Acrylonitrile and Acetonitrile plants under license f rom SOHIO to petrochemical sites in southern Europe, UK, Far East and China. Th is included startup, commissioning and design/troubleshooting roles at Enichem ( Gela, Sicily) & Paular/Repsol (Tarragona, Spain), Acrinor (Bahia, Brazil), Erdol chemie (Dormagen, Germany), Paular/Repsol (Tarragona, Spain), Monsanto/BASF (Sea l Sands, UK), Petkim (Izmir, Turkey), DSM (Maastricht, Holland), Mitsui Toatsu ( Osaka,Japan), Sinopec (DaQing, China) and CPP/Romania.... 1984-85 Process Development Engineer, SOHIO Nitriles Specialties & Polymers (Nag oya Japan) Responsible for process engineering support to Barex 210 High-Impact Barrier CoPolymer Resin 1985-86 Startup Team Leader, Specialty Polymers (Nagoya, Japan) BP's representative for know-how transfer, commissioning, and startup at Osaka, Japan. First Barex 210 resin facility to employ semi-continuous latex emulsion technology. Satisfied customer with $10m license royalties netback to SOHIO/BP. 1986-89 Chief Process Engineer - Acrylo Licensing Team (Cleveland, OH) Led the basic and detailed engineering design, operator training and commissioni ng of 4 plants in China and Taiwan Worked with engineering contractors to prepare the basic and detailed design pac kages for 4 AN Plants in China (FuShun, ZiBo, AnQing) and Taiwan (Formosa Plastics) 1992-94 Operations Supervisor - Catalyst/Acetonitrile/AN Offsites (Lima OH) Area Superintendent responsible for Catalyst Production Plant: Included supervi sory responsibility for 25 hourly employees and daily line responsibility. 100% reliability & perfect safety record. 1995-96 R&D Project Leader (Warrensville OH) Acrylonitrile process specialis t including catalyst change outs and plant debottlenecking. Led catalyst change -outs, de-bottlenecking & commissioning at many domestic and foreign ACN plants. Successful catalyst sales & licensing activities at world petrochemical sites. Having worked & lived in many foreign countries, I demonstrated an excellent ability to adapt and tolerate many cultures, languages & customs, often under ad verse conditions. 1996-1997 Commissioning & StartUp Team Leader Led a multi-disciplinary commissioning and startup team for two world scale AN p lants in mainland China: Sinopec (AnQing, China) and Formosa (Taipei, Taiwan) 1997-98 Project Manager - Sasol Acrylonitrile Plant (Secunda, South Africa) BP's point man for dismantling, shipping, reconstruction and commissioning of a SOHIO-process AN plant ($450m total equipment cost) for the SASOL refinery site. Led & coordinated relocation of SOHIO-process AN plant from Linz, Austria to S. Africa 'high-veldt'. Oversaw the dismantling (reactor, 7 distillation column s, heat exchangers, pumps & process piping), barge shipping and reconstruction o f all process units at the Sasol's oil refinery site. This provided me valuable experience with engineering contractors on a major petrochemical project. Patents Granted, Pending or Applied Catalytic Gasification of Petroleum Coke or Coal with V. Reiling as Principal or

Co-Inventor 1. Patent # 08-1053-US; Assignment # FN-0041 US NP1, 2008 "Processes & Apparat uses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Integrated OBG Configuration with catalytic gasification, shift and methanation without recycle" 2. Patent # 08-833-US; Assignment # FN-0042 US NP1, 2008 " Processes & Appar atuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Direct O2 Injection Techno logy (DO-IT) with with catalytic gasification, shift and methanation without syn gas recycle" 3. Patent # 08-713-US; Assignment # FN-0039 US NP1, 2008 "Processes & Apparatu ses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Spent Char as a catalytic gas ification, shift and methanation catalyst" 4. Patent # 08-627-US; Assignment # FN-0040 US NP1, 2008 " Processes & Apparatus es for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock Integrated Hydromethanation Proc ess - ATR/POX options with catalytic methanation, shift and gasification" 5. Patent # 09-033-US; Assignment # FN-0046 US NP1 & PRV January 30, 2009 "Pro cesses & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock High Volatile Feedstocks Gasification" 6. Patent applied and pending: 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Ultralow Carbon bluegasTM - Improvement to Direct O2 (DO-IT) catalytic methanation, shift and gasification" 7. Patent applied and pending 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Ultrahigh productivity bluegasTM - Improvement to Dir ect O2 (DO-IT) catalytic methanation, shift and gasification" 8. Patent applied and pending 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Particle shrinkage, breakage and densification during catalytic gasification" GreatPoint Energy 9. Patent applied and pending 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Apparatus for delivering feed to a catalytic gasifier " GreatPoint Energy 10. Patent applied and pending 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Apparatus for delivering feed to a catalytic gasifie r" GreatPoint Energy 11. Patent applied and pending 2009 "Processes & Apparatuses for Gasification of a Carbonaceous Feedstock - Means to prevent Agglomeration" GreatPoint Energy Production of Polyolefin's with V. Reiling as Principal Inventor or Co-Inventor 1. Assignment No. 9352/B384 "Streaming Flow Operating Cyclone" filing date July 28, 2000 Inventor: V Reiling 2. Assignment No. 9823/B415 SEPARATION OF GASES AND SOLIDS USING A CYCLONE" filing date January 28, 2001 Inventor: V Reiling 3. Assignment No. 9836/B416 SEPARATION OF GASES AND SOLIDS USING A CYCLONE fi ling date January 28, 2001 Inventor: V Reiling 4. Assignment No. 9676/B408 PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-)POLYMERISATION OF O LEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR filing date October 5, 2001 Inventors: V Reiling, JL Selo, A Gallice 5. Assignment No. 9679/B409 PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-) POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR October 18, 2002 November 8, 2001 Bed Height Control (Reactor Fluidization Monitor) filing date October 28, 2002 Invent ors: V Reiling, E Helland 6. Patent Pending "PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-) POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR - Ejector-compressor - improved design for anti-fouling and large hydraulic capacity Inventor: V Reiling 7. Patent Pending "PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-) POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR - System DP for reliable of Cyclone and Ejector" Invento r: V. Reiling 8. Patent Pending "PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-) POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR - Cause and Prevention of Angel Hair in Gas Phase Units " Inventor: V Reiling 9. Patent Pending "PROCESS FOR THE GAS-PHASE (CO-) POLYMERISATION OF OLEFINS IN A FLUIDISED BED REACTOR- Operation of Bed Height in the Bulb" Inventor: V Reilin

g Production of Acrylonitrile, Acetonitrile or HCN with V. Reiling as Principal In ventor or Co-Inventor 1. US Patent # 5,457,223, "Process for the Elimination of Waste Material during Manufacture of Acrylonitrile" Oct. 10, 1995 2. US Patent # 5,288,473, "Process for the Elimination of Waste Material during Manufacture of Acrylonitrile" Feb. 22, 1994 3. US Patent # 4,070,393 "Ammonia Breakthrough Reduction" May 19, 1997 4. US Patent # 5,466,857 "Process for the Reduction of Waste Material during Ma nufacture of Acrylonitrile" Nov. 14, 1995 5. European Patent RP 95304532 "Process for the Reduction of Waste Material dur ing Manufacture of Acrylonitrile" 6. Further patents supplied on request. Publications and Invited Presentations (partial list) 1. "Impeller Fluidized Bed Reactor : Influence of Acceleration and Particle Siz e on Theoretical Processing Rates", July 29, 1985, V. Reiling M.S. Thesis, CWRU. 2. "The Effect of Ultrafine Particles On Cohesion and Fluidization Behavior of G roup A Powders. Ph.D. Dissertation: CWRU 3. "Particle-Fluid Mass Transfer Coefficients in Impeller Fluidized Beds", Sympo sium on Novel Reactor Techniques for Heterogeneous Systems, Jin Y. Park, Chairma n, AIChE Annual Meeting, Miami Beach, Fl November -7, 1986. M. Balasko, V.G. Re iling, R.J. Adler, RV Edwards. 4. "Mass Transfer in Impeller Fluidized Beds", AIChE Journal, July 20, 1988, M. Balasko, V.G. Reiling, R.J. Adler, RV Edwards and M Petrik. 5. "Effect of Group C Particles on Cohesion, Viscosity and Fluidization Behavior of Group A Particles" V. Reiling. R.J. Adler, Fluidization VII, Seventh Interna tional Conference on Fluidization, Eng. Foundation, Brisbane Australia, May 3-8, 1992. 6. "The Fluidized Density of an Industrial Significant Group A Catalyst in Bench , Pilot and Commercial Scale Reactors", Fluidization IX, May 17-22, 1998 Durango CO 7. "Effect of Reactor Scale, Gas Velocity and Initial Bulk Density on Fluidized Bed Density of an Industrial Significant Group A Material" Fluidization IX, Nint h International Conference on Fluidization, Eng. Foundation, Durango, CO May 17, 1998. 8. "Bubble Size and Velocity Measurements in a Polyethylene Fluidized Bed using Fiber Optic Probe Technique with Simultaneous X-Ray Visualization"; III European Conference on Fluidization, May 29-31, 2000 Toulouse, France 9. "PARTICLE MOTION AND DEFLUIDISATION BY SINTERING IN THE FLUIDISED BED POLYETH YLENE PROCESS" Jonathan Seville, Amran Mohd Salleh, Andrew Ingram, Aidan McCorm ack, Richard Greenwood and Vincent Reiling Fluidization X, Beijing, China, June , 2000. 10. "Bubble Measurements in a Polyethylene Fluidized Bed Comparison of Fiber Opt ic Probe and X-Ray Results" III European Conference on Fluidization Fluidizati on X, Beijing, China, June 2000 11. "NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF A GAS PHASE POLYMERISATION REACTOR" ECCOMAS Computa tional Fluid Dynamics Conference Swansea, Wales, UK, 4-7 September 2001 12. "Online Fluidization Monitor Installation on Gas Phase Reactor: Advanced Re actor Instrumentation for Gas Phase Polyethylene Reactors Fluidization Measureme nts and Plant Reliability" European Congress on Computational Methods in Applie d Sciences and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference Swansea, W ales, UK, 4-7 September 2001 13. "Comparison between X-Ray Rig, Experimental data, and CFD Modeling for stud ying Operability / Debottlenecking Reliability and Scale-Up, Design Technology Validation of Gas Phase PolyOlefin Reactors" ECCOMAS Computational Fluid Dynami cs Conference 2001 Swansea, Wales, UK, 4-7 September 2001 14. "CFD MODELLING OF AN INDUSTRIAL POLYMERIZATION FLUIDIZED BED," CHISA Confere

nce, Summer, 2002, Czechoslovakia, V. Reiling and A. Gobin 15. "Real Time Fluidization Monitoring on Gas Phase PE Plants" Vince Reiling, Wo rld Polyolefin's Conference Sept 2002. 16. "The Application of X-Ray Imaging to the Development of Fluidized Bed Proces ses", D. Newton, M Fiorentino, V Reiling and G.B. Smith, IIIrd European Conferen ce on Fluidization Toulouse France May 29-31, 2000 17. "Defluidization of Polymer Particles due to Sintering", MAM Salleh, JPK Sev ille, PC Knight RW Greenwood, V Reiling, III European Conference on Fluidization Toulouse France May 29-31, 2000 18. "Progress in the Development of Continuum and Kinetic Description of Gas-Par ticle Fluidized Beds" Fluidization X, Beijing, China O Simonin, V Reiling June 2000 19. "Etude de TDH sur le F5 ; etude de Nettoyage sur le F5 (0.74 m) ; etude de N ettoyage et TDH sur le Innovene 4 (5 m) ; Comparaison entre F5 et Innovene 4" B ulb Washing Study at Pilot and Industrial Scale - optimum bed height for pilot p lant reactor to avoid bulb hot spots in Novacat & Metallocene catalysts" World P olyolefin Conference September 17, 2003 20. "Fluid Dynamic Numerical Simulation of a Gas phase Polymerization reactor" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS Anne Gobin, Herve Neau, Ol ivier Simonin Jean-Richard Llinas, Vince Reiling and Jean-Loic Selo Int. J. Num er. Meth. Fluids 2003; 43:1199-1220 (DOI: 10.1002/d.542) 21. "The Effect of Fluidization Conditions on the Sintering Point of Commercial Polyethylene Materials made by Various Catalysts" Engineering Foundation Confere nce, Jonathan Seville, Amran Mohd Salleh, Andrew Ingram, Aidan McCormack, Richa rd Greenwood and Vincent Reiling, November 2003 22. "Hydro-Dynamic Characterization of BP Polyethylene Resins at Gas Phase Condi tions by X-Ray Image Analysis at 42-cm Scale" World's Polyolefin's Conference 20 03. 23. "Sintering Measurements and Model for SDx, Cr, Metallocene and Ziegler-M Pol yethylene Resins" V Reiling, Engineering Foundation Conference 2003 24. "Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling for design of Polyethylene Reac tors at large scale: a new and distinctive Development Route" Presentation at H elios Award Ceremony May 1, 2003 25. "Comparison of Dense Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed Predictions from Hard-Sphere Di screte Particle and Two-Fluid Continuum Modeling Approaches" Rene Occelli, Jero me Soula, Lounes Tadrist, Olivier Simonin, Vincent Reiling 5th ICMF, Yokohama, Japan, May 30 - June 4, 2004 26. "Keeping It Fluid! "CFD Modeling of Gas Phase Polyolefin Polymerization Pro cesses Made to Work" Invited Presentation, World Polyolefin's Conference, London 2004