Vincent Stone graduated in Plastics Engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where he also earned a PhD. He later earned a part-time MBA degree from the Solvay Brussels School Economics & Management. He joined UCB Group (later Cytec Industries) in 1998, where he led several resin and additive development projects for coatings, inks and adhesives applications. He joined in 2010 ArcelorMittal, where he developed and managed a portfolio of pipe coating technology development and testing services for a range of clients along the oil and gas value chain. He then joined in 2015 the Ferro’s Polymer Additives business (later Synegis) where he led the customer and manufacturing support activities, as well as the global product stewardship activities for the benzoate and polyadipate plasticizers portfolios. Since May 2018, he has joined the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM). ECVM delivers a broad range of technical, sustainability, advocacy and communication services to the leading European PVC resin manufacturers. As Technical and Environmental Affairs Senior Manager, he is mainly in charge to develop the activities of the PVC4Pipes platform. He is also actively involved in the Additives and Sustainable Product Label activities of VinylPlus®, the association managing the voluntary sustainability commitment of the PVC value chain.

David Buckby received a MSc in Economics form the University of Bath, UK , in 2014.

Prior to AMI Consulting, he worked at Transpoirt Intellignce, a UK-based provider of market research and consultancy services to the transport and logistics sector.

As an Economist, he was the company’s lead market sizing analyst and managed numerous market sizing and forecasting studies on logistics markets such as road transport, freight forwarding and contract logistics. He was also a respected media commentator on a variety of supply chain topics, being regularly cited by industry publications.

In 2018, he joined Applied Market Information Ltd., Bristol, England, joining the Energy & Infrastructure division. His core areas of focus include plastic pipes and steel pipeline coatings, but he also worked on a variety of single/multiclient projects covering other industries (e.g. global cables market).

Graduated in Hydraulic Engineering at the Sapienza University in Rome in 1989, Emilio Caporossi started working at a private construction company in the Veneto region in 1990, building sewage systems, gas grids and water purification plants in many areas of the Italian territory.

From 1993 to 1998 in Venice and, subsequently, in Rovigo until 2004, he operated as Head of Environmental Services (waste collection, sweeping, recycling, public green, management maintenance workshops, etc.)

From June 2004 to 2010 he was at Hera Spa in Ferrara as Environmental Services Manager first, and then as Head of Network Services (gas, water, sewerage, district heating, purification); subsequently (2011 - 2012) still at Hera Spa, as Network Manager in the province of Forlì / Cesena.

From 2013 to mid-2015, he was Head of the Hera Remote Control Center of Forlì and, from mid-2015 to date, Head of Hera Spa Sewage Treatment and Sewage Networks.

Vincenzo d’Angelo graduated in Civil Engineering with a specialization in soil protection from the University of L’Aquila where he also earned a PhD. As nationwide recognized expert in the design and construction of hydraulic networks, he currently works as a freelance engineer. As consultant, he could work on a myriad of major water, sewer and irrigation network projects in Italy. Vincenzo d’Angelo has given hydraulic engineering courses and lectures at conferences and conventions, more specifically on topics related to calculation methods and materials used in the hydraulic systems. Among other duties, Vincenzo d’Angelo is member of the professional register of inspectors of hydraulic structures for the Province of Pescara, and member of commission of experts of the Italian Association for Trenchless Technology (IATT), in charge of defining the best technical practices for the construction of underground infrastructures.