Ron has 45 years of experience in process engineering, technology licensing, sales and marketing. Venner has also led Lummus’ Clean Fuels operations segment and Lummus’ petrochemicals business, which included CATOFIN, ethylbenzene, styrene, butadiene extraction, cumene, phenol, paraxylene and carbonates technologies.

At Lummus Technology, he has also played a key role in advancing and bringing to market technologies such as CO2 capture, plastics recycling, biopolymers, blue and green hydrogen, and PFAS destruction.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Manhattan College