Robert Broad

Specialist in evaporation systems for protein industry. Working on establishing plate evaporators as the industry standard saving space and energy and extending uptime.

Principal consultant, helping companies with process engineering issues, such as technology selection, validation, debottlenecking, energy optimisation, commissioning and troubleshooting.

Responsible for developing the evaporation systems businesses globally. Consolidated & grew existing technical knowledge, developed tools reducing time to quote & manual input for engineering. Performed market analysis & developed strategy for target markets. Nurturing relationships with existing customer base & networked with potential customers to gain trust at a technical & commercial level, getting added to global recommended supplier lists for major multinational companies.

Responsible for developing new business for the world leader in highly technical and advanced diffusion bonded heat exchangers. Focusing on power generation, and energy optimization in new and exciting areas, as well as traditional but yet unexplored process engineering and power generation markets.

• Developed technical design manual for new core target applications, highlighting the technical advantages over other technologies • Rolled out global technical strategy, accomplished with a major workshop in Sweden • Worked across internal business units to create a companywide best practice, and knowledge sharing for technical sales • Supported global network of technical sales engineers with complex designs, customer dialogue and meetings • Involved in integration team for difficult acquisition

Lead team of Process Engineers, developing & implementation business strategy Identified new business opportunities, created way to market, by working with customer’s process engineering teams Responsible for large R&D project, coordinating international team of multidiscipline stakeholders, ensuring product met demands Troubleshooting & claims rectification, improving & writing procedures Key Account relationships with multinational companies through good relationships, acting as a consultant

Global responsibility for developing evaporation business, market analysis & business planning Designed multiple effect evaporators, prepared proposals & commissioned Significantly & consistently reduced capital & operating costs on many occasions, by working with customers process engineers, producing an economical model, now used globally Lead technically demanding commissioning & troubleshooting Developed new technical applications and associated branding, writing internal design guidelines & tools

Eight years’ experience designing compact heat exchangers, condensers, reboilers and evaporator systems for the UK and Republic of Ireland. Domestic responsibility for commercial and technical proposals, and marketing for process industries including; distillery, sugar, starch, pharmaceutical, refinery, petrochemical. I also provided technical support to other sales companies. Major customers included British Sugar, Exxon Mobil, GlaxoSmithKline.

Corporate Social Responsability

Heat Transfer Distillation Biofuels