Mark Eggleston

Mark Eggleston is Director for Phillip Townsend Associates' Europe and Middle East business, based in Brussels. He has over 30 years of plastics and chemical industry experience, with positions in business management, production, maintenance, engineering and construction.

Mr. Eggleston has business start-up, expansion and restructuring experience with Amoco and BP in polypropylene, styrenics and engineering plastics, in Europe and the US. This included business strategy development and execution; new market entry; management of product, catalyst and process technology programs; international sales/distribution, procurement, logistics and plant operations, construction and start-up. Recent positions were as Business Manager, Polymers Europe in Geneva and Business Manager EPS in London. He led the polypropylene 4th generation catalyst conversion project for Amoco during the early 1990's, which included process modifications, extensive plant scale testing, market entry for their entire product range, catalyst sourcing negotiations and start up of the new technology catalyst production plant. He supported gas phase process license sales and direct investment projects. He has maintenance and operations plant experience including planning and executing turnarounds with plant maintenance, operations and contract staff, reconstructing major process and rotating equipment, furnaces and boilers; cleaning and reconditioning process equipment; installation and start-up of major capital projects and instituting improved maintenance and operations procedures and on-line support systems.