Kim Denny
President
Air Liquide America

Kim is the President of Air Liquide America L.P., driving the US distributor and cylinder business of the world’s largest industrial gas company. Air Liquide’s products include medical gases for hospitals, gases for welding, and products and services to assure high tech laboratory equipment is operating correctly. Her team extends from Alaska to Houston to Hawaii.

Kim earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri – Rolla in 1982 and her MBA from Rice University in 2001. She holds one patent and is honored to serve on the Board of the Academy of Chemical Engineers at her alma mater, as well as the Executive Advisory Board of the Houston Strategic Forum. Her career has included: solid operations and project experience, energy procurement, sales, and too many “special projects” to mention. She has learned to value trusting her instincts, seeking out new approaches, and taking risks. She devotes herself to work and her 14-year old daughter, Alex. Her husband Terry Doyle, a former chemical plant superintendent, provides crucial support at home.

Keith is leading Sonoco’s end to end process capability improvement work with a target of becoming a top quartile supply chain performer in the packaging industry.
Prior to joining Sonoco, he was the Director of Supply Chain Transformation and Six Sigma Champion- Global Operations for DuPont, leading the application of Six Sigma across DuPont Operations and to business processes, specifically the end to the end supply chain.

Previous to this assignment, Keith was Corporate Champion for Business Process Improvement, Global Six Sigma Champion for DuPont Engineering Polymers and one of the original DuPont Champions. He also functioned as part of DuPont’s Six Sigma Champion Network and Design for Six Sigma corporate team leader. Keith has a manufacturing/ engineering background with 30 years DuPont experience and overall 32 years in chemicals and plastics manufacturing with assignments at manufacturing sites across the US and global experience leading business process improvement

Mr. Ulm has been Global Leader of Carrier Relations for Owens Corning for the past three years. In this role he leads all contract and fitness for use conversations at the Executive level with their various carriers around the world. This leads the conversations at the sales and operational levels.

Jerry has been in the fore front of the transportation industry for over 30 years. He has been a principal in two truckload carriers and founded a logistic company that operated major shipper owned fleets. He also founded one of the first 3PL companies in the industry. This experience along with his desire to transform the industry has proven to be the perfect mix to lead change at Owens Corning.

He believes that technology is the answer along with the true basics of an industry that has changed little over the past 30 years. It is this insight that has brought Owens Coring a reduction in cost and elimination of waste from both the carrier and OC’s operations. This has caused an increase in on-time service while allowing carriers to become true business partners going forward. All of this and more is the reason Logistics has become a “Competitive Weapon” allowing OC to become a “Shipper of Preference.”

Jerry is on the Board of Directors for the National Industrial Transportation League, member and committee chair for National Freight and Transportation Association, Truckload Carrier Association – shipper advisory committee, member of Council of Logistics Management and American Society of Transportation and Logistics.

Craig Long is Vice President, Quality and Six Sigma, for Milliken & Company. In this role, he is responsible specifically for Six Sigma deployment, Milliken Product Management Improvement, and Milliken Performance System. He has held positions of increasing responsibility for Milliken since 1974, so he knows the company very well. He previously served as Vice President, Milliken University and Quality, and Director of Quality. During the 1980’s he worked in the industrial fabrications business part of the company as Market Manager, Senior Account Manager, and Senior Development Engineer. He first joined Milliken in the Gainesville Plant, holding assignments of increasing responsibility from Industrial Engineer trainee to Industrial Engineer and Industrial Engineering Manager.

Craig has been a member of the Six Sigma Council, and co-chair of the U.S. Quality Council. He has also been a member of the South Carolina Quality Forum Advisory Board, has been chair of the Wofford College Parents Advisory Council, and a member of the United Way of Spartanburg Board. Currently, Craig is a member of the U.S. Quality Council, and serves on the Board of Greater Spartanburg Ministries. He holds a B.S. in Economics, Western Carolina University, and is a Harvard Advanced Management Program Graduate.

Imogene Treble is a Product Regulatory Leader in Environment Health and Safety at Dow. She joined Union Carbide in 1978 as an Analytical Chemist. She moved into a Product Regulatory role in 1996, focusing on FDA and TSCA EPA regulations. She continued in this role after the merger of Union Carbide with The Dow Chemical Corporation in 2001. Since 2005 she has led the Dow Global GHS Team and is the Hazard Communication portion of the GHS Implementation.

Imogene has a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts.