Featured Speakers

Ed Sullivan
Portland Cement Association, Chief Economist & Senior VP

Edward Sullivan is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for PCA and heads PCA’s Market Intelligence Group. As Chief Economist he directs all PCA’s assessments for target markets and provides forecast guidance on the economy, cement consumption, and the construction industry for the U.S. and internationally.

Ed has been named among the top 10 influencers in the concrete industry domestically and internationally by industry trade magazines. In past years, Ed was named by the Chicago Federal Reserve as the most accurate forecaster among 30 top economists. Various other forecasting surveys have placed Ed among the most accurate construction economists in the country. Ed’s analysis and views regarding the construction, cement and concrete industries is widely used in corporate planning efforts, government policy, and media.

Leslie Bartholomew
FLSmidth, Inc.

Leslie has been with FLSmidth for 45 years in the Pneumatic Transport Group of Customer Service, Market Manager: Cement. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Bill Lyons
Applied Industrial Maintenance & Reliability Management (AIMRM) - Consultant/Trainer

Bill is a maintenance and reliability business consultant/trainer with over 40 years of experience in the cement industry. He works in maintenance improvement, employee training and development, and recently starting own consulting business, AIMRM.

Keith Meyers
SKF - Global Industry Manager for Mining, Mineral Processing
and Cement (MMPC)

Keith has been with SKF since 1985. During his 30+ years with the company, he’s held positions in engineering, development, technical marketing and sales. For the past 20 has been leading the SKF Mining, Mineral Processing and Cement industry team. Keith is a registered Professional Engineer with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Jose Picoli
Suwannee American Cement

Mr. Picoli works as Senior Maintenance Manager at Suwannee American Cement and has over forty years of experience in the cement industries, working in Brazil, Canada and USA. He also worked as Project Manager on a cement plant project to double clinker capacity. Mr. Picoli holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Mauro Salpor
Van Gorp - Vice President

Mauro is originally from Guatemala. In 1991, he earned a scholarship from Georgetown University to study in the United States and has 21 years of experience in the conveyor components industry. He enjoys traveling the world to meet his customers’ needs.

R. Todd Swinderman, PE
RTODDS Engineering LLC

R. Todd Swinderman is the Owner of RTODDS Engineering, LLC.  Swinderman graduated from the University of Illinois with a BSME and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois and Florida. Swinderman has 40 years of experience in operation, maintenance and design of conveyors to make them cleaner, safer and more productive.  He holds over 60 US patents, has published over 100 articles and written several books on bulk material handling by conveyor.  The current focus is on conveyor safety by design training.

Greg Ziegler
SKF USA Inc., Business Development Manager, On Line Systems

Over 30 years of experience with machinery protection systems, online condition monitoring systems and sensors in a wide range of industrial applications have given Greg Ziegler a deep knowledge of his field of expertise.

For the past eight years, Greg has been the business development manager for SKF online systems, in various industrial markets, including the renewable energy business unit for remote monitoring of wind turbines in the U.S. market. Prior to that Greg managed the condition monitoring product service business for SKF USA for 12 years. During that time, Greg focused much of his efforts on directing and leading a team of engineers for system installations, maintenance, training and mentoring customers.

Greg graduated from Alfred State College with an associate degree in industrial engineering technology in 1977. Afterward, he spent 10 years with Bently Nevada Corp. in various service delivery and management positions, then joined the J.L. Weil Company and worked as VP of sales and service, before joining SKF in 1996.