Dr. Clive Brereton
Dr. Brereton graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1982 and obtained a Ph.D. in 1987. He has held several positions in the chemical and energy engineering industry including 7 years of teaching at the University of British Columbia, a short term in Sweden where he worked for Studsvik Energiteknik, a CIDA secondment to Thailand and has also conducted a hazardous waste processing technology program at the Asian Institute of Technology. In 1996 Dr. Brereton joined Noram Engineering and Constructors as a senior process engineer and since that time he has worked on many commercial and development projects in the areas of electrochemical and chemical engineering. At Noram he works with a team of process, mechanical and electrical engineers with extensive experience in the design of cells and the surrounding electrochemical plants. He specializes in electrochemical problems as well as fluid mixing and separation processes.
Dr. Brereton holds three patents, including one for the "boundary layer anode", a novel electrochemical cell. He has also recently developed a new technology for separation of bromine from electrochemically-produced chlorine. This was successfully commissioned at a 450 tonne a day scale in 2002. He is the author of over 50 journal and conference papers in all areas of chemical engineering. In particular Dr. Brereton has made three presentations on aspects of cell engineering and electrochemical plant engineering at the annual International Forum on Applied Electrochemistry and maintains an affiliation with the University where he is an Adjunct Professor and lectures in process plant design.
Bradley R. Williams P.E.
Since April 2006, Bradley Williams is a Research Director at Gartner, in their Energy & Utilities practice,
focusing on utility IT applications of GIS, SCADA/EMS, Outage Management, and T&D Enterprise Asset Management.
He also specializes in specific utility operations technology (OT) applications of Distributed Generation,
Electricity Storage, and Substation and Distribution Automation. Brad leverages his over 20-years utility
engineering and IT experience to provide unfiltered and unbiased technology insight to Gartner customers.
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Williams headed the Power Delivery Business Technology group responsible for business unit technology strategy, budget allocation, and project delivery within PacifiCorp, a regulated electric utility in the western US. Mr. Williams led PacifiCorp’s efforts to implement its Distribution Management System and a number of distribution automation technologies throughout the company. He has extensive experience in planning, engineering, and management of electric utility transmission and distribution (T&D) facilities in the Pacific Northwest and in Southern California. As previous Director of Infrastructure Planning, Mr. Williams was responsible for PacifiCorp’s substation, subtransmission, telecommunications, and technology development planning groups and championed the development of energy storage applications to defer new T&D assets. Mr. Williams has received his BSEE and MBA degrees from Cal Poly and is a registered professional engineer.
Dr. J. David Genders
Dr. Genders graduated from Coventry Polytechnic in 1982 with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Chemistry and obtained a Ph. D. in Chemistry from the University of Southampton, UK in 1985.
Dr. Genders has been involved in the field of electrochemistry for almost 20 years including Head of Research and Technology for Regenesys Technologies, Ltd., a technology-based company focused on developing utility-scale energy storage technologies and Vice-President of Research and Development for Electrosynthesis Company, Inc., which was acquired by Regenesys Technologies, Ltd. in 2001. He is an accomplished senior-level executive with progressive experience in building and leading technology groups. Dr. Genders holds 18 patents as well as publishing over 15 papers. He has co-authored three books, the most recent in 1997 entitled A First Course in Ion Permeable Membranes. He is a member of the Electrochemical Society, the American Chemical Society and the North American Membrane Society and is currently a board member of Electrosynthesis Company, Inc. and Zappi Water Purification Systems, Inc.
