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Chief Operations Officer – Turnbridge Consulting Group, LLC
With over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, her background includes Group Insurance Underwriting, Operations Analysis, Account Management, Following that experience she spent seven years in Sales Management at a Fortune 200 company. She has also served Turnbridge Consulting Group for over 10 years as an officer and primary owner of the company, overseeing the financial well-being of the company.
Education: Millie Mugol-Gardner has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned her degree in 1987 and soon became a Group Insurance Underwriter at CNA Insurance.
Executive Vice President – Turnbridge Consulting Group, LLC
Dr. Graham’s experience includes over 25 years working with a range of small businesses to large corporations, helping owners, directors and the rest of the employees preserve and grow their incomes. During the past 15 years he has served on business advisory boards, consulted for non-profit associations and unions, and helped individuals and organizations with their professional and business development. He brings a wealth of experience since he has owned and run three businesses in transportation, food production and management consulting. From this experience he knows well how to conduct all the critical functions in business, helping each business grow its financial bottom line while reducing its tax liabilities. He has also been a faculty member at several community colleges and National Louis University providing education in human relations, business analysis and ethics. He has also written two books—one in management development and the other a children’s reading primer.
Education: He achieved a B.A. in Psychology from Wooster College; M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Psychology and Organizational Development from Case Western Reserve University.
Hamid Arastoopour is the Henry R. Linden Professor of Engineering and Director of Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1985, he has also been a member of the chemical engineering faculty at Illinois Tech, where he served as chairman of the department from 1989 to 2003, and Dean of the Armour College of Engineering from 2003 to 2008.
He began his research activities at the Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) in the experimental measurement, mathematical modeling and simulation of pneumatic conveying and fluidized bed systems associated with coal conversion and gasification processes. His main research expertise is in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of multiphase flow and particle technology—an area motivated by energy and environmentally related applications and documented in more than 100 publications and 13 U.S. patents. Dr. Arastoopour is among the leading researchers in multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in the world. His models are being used by available codes (e.g., Fluent and MFIX) for the design of flow systems in many locations. He has received many academic awards in chemical engineering , energy and sustainability areas during his career. His work is extremely well-suited for simulating aerodynamic flows in a structure that generates a vortex like the Solar Vortex Greenhouse.
He currently serves on the editorial board of sustainability journal. A fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and National Academy of Inventors (NAI), he has received a number of national awards including: The Particle Technology Forum Life time achievements, The Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF) Research, the Donald Q. Kern Award in Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion, the Fluor Daniel Lectureship in Fluidization and Fluid/Particle Systems, the Fluidization Processes Recognition Award, and the Ernest W. Thiele Award, all from AIChE. He also received Illinois Tech’s excellence in teaching award.
Education
Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology (Gas Engineering, 1978)
M.S. from Illinois Institute of Technology (Gas Engineering, 1975)
B.S. from Abadan Institute of Technology, Iran (Gas Engineering, 1973)
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Hamid Arastoopour
Henry R. Linden Professor of Engineering
Interim Dean of Armour College of Engineering
Director, Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER)
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 35th Street, IIT Tower – 16th Floor
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