John has 36 years of experience in Industrial water treatment. Prior to ChemTreat John worked for W.R.Grace Dearborn in Europe, North and South America in a variety of customer support and research leadership roles. John has been a key researcher at ChemTreat for 21 years and was instrumental in building a first class research capability, staffed with industry and application experts. John has developed new high performance scale inhibitors, novel corrosion inhibitors and several key technologies for monitoring functional chemistry in water treatment systems. John is a recognized industry expert in produced water treatment for SAGD operations .John has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s degree and Ph.D in Metallurgy and Materials Science from Nottingham University, UK.