Waterloo Filtration Institute

Panel Speakers

Mr. Sean O'Reilly, Global VP HP Sales & Innovation, AAF Flanders (USA)

Mr. Sean O'Reilly is currently Global VP HP Sales & Innovation, AAF Flanders, responsible for Sales, Product Management & Product Development for High Purity Products. He has 35+ years of air filtration & systems expertise for both HVAC & cleanroom, bio-safety applications. He is AAF IEQ North American Task Force Member with Daikin Group. He is a multiple patent holder from cleanroom applications products to sensor technology.

Mr. Tyler Smith, Vice President, Healthy Buildings, Johnson Controls (USA)

Mr. Tyler Smith is Vice President, Healthy Buildings at Johnson Controls.  Tyler has spent 17 years with Johnson Controls in roles focused on leveraging building management systems and HVAC equipment to drive important outcomes such as improvements energy efficiency and indoor air quality. From 2018 to 2020 Tyler led Johnson Controls’ Critical Environments business unit, which designs and manufactures systems for critical spaces such as hospitals and laboratories. Since late 2020, Tyler has led Johnson Controls’ Healthy Buildings initiative with a focus on helping customers leverage productivity and financial outcomes associated with operating healthier buildings. Tyler has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Emory University and resides in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with his wife and two kids.

Mr. Mike Clark, President, Filtration Solution, Hollingsworth & Vose Co. (USA)

Mr. Mike Clark is President, Filtration Solutions, Hollingsworth & Vose. He has 20 years of filtration experience, including  air, liquid, transportation, and power genertion. He serves as INDA Board of Directors and President of the High Efficiency and Specialty Filtration Division from 2009 to 2020. Mike was a strategy consultant for 8 years working with Fortune 100 manufacturing companies before joining H&V. He received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.

Dr. Iyad Al-Attar, WFI Strategic Director, Visiting Academic Fellow, Cranfield University (UK)

A Visiting Academic Fellow in the School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing at Cranfield University, consulting for air quality and filter performance relevant to land-based gas turbines. A columnist in the EUROVENT Middle East newsletter, Climate Control Middle East Magazine, and ES Engineering, USA. He has authored many articles on air filter design, performance, particle characterization, and climate change. Received his engineering degrees (BSc, MSc, PhD) from the University of Toronto (Canada), Kuwait University, and Loughborough University (UK), respectively.

Dr. Matt Thundyil, President, Transcend (USA)

Dr. Matt Thundyil has nearly 30 years’ experience in the separation technology field.  He has been the President and CEO of Transcend Solutions since 2014, which is a rapidly growing separation technology manufacturer focused on the process industry.  Prior to Transcend, Matt started up GTC’s sulfur removal service business and led Porous Media/Pentair in research, and then global sales in the energy industry.  Matt has had a focus in starting up and rapidly growing, high margin businesses.  He is a Chemical Engineer, with a PhD in Advanced Separations from The University of Texas at Austin.  He has been published in many peer reviewed and industry journals, and spoken at many industry conferences and is named as an inventor for 7 patents.

Dr. Cédric Vallet, Head of Product Management & Business Development – Filtration Division, Ahlstrom (France)

Dr. Cédric Vallet has 20 years of experience in Filtration; in R&D, then in Sales & Marketing. Expertise in filtration media manufacturing and various air & liquid applications. He led the Ahlstrom-Munksjö FiltEV® launch, a new platform of high-performance filtration materials for Electric Vehicles. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Rennes (FR) and Engineering Master’s Degree in Chemistry, ENSCR, 2002.

Mr. Gianni Basso Bin, Vice President, Freudenberg Filtration Technologies

Gianni Basso Bin is Vice President Americas Industrial Filtration at Freudenberg Filtration Technologies. He has more than 30 years of experience in dealing with air filtration products, technologies and systems. He started his career in R&D and moved to a technical and commercial role providing filtration solutions in different markets and countries after four years. This included general HVAC and a large variety of industrial segments. Active in the automotive and industrial environment he supported many companies and professionals to be more efficient, reliable and sustainable in their filtration applications with innovative products and systems. He is an enthusiast promoting better filtration solutions to protect people by improving their quality of life and also enhancing customers` processes.