|
2011 - 2014 Executive Committee
|
Steve Ooi, Chairman - Group Managing Director of Jaya Sarana Group of Companies. He has 35 years of
working experience in the Fire and Safety Industries. Currently
Founder President, Society of Fire Protection Engineers (Malaysian
Chapter), Past President, Board Member and currently Hon. Secretary of
the Malaysian Fire Protection Association, Received appreciation award
medal from the Director General of Malaysian Fire Department, Member of
the National Fire Protection Association USA, Fire Protection Association
UK, The Institution of Fire Engineers (UK) Malaysia Branch, Professional
Member, Society of Fire Protection Engineers U.S.A, Life Member of the
American Institute of Management, past and present President &
Committee Members of many other Non Government Organizations in
Malaysia. With his involvement with all these bodies, he has
contributed generally by bringing into Malaysia latest field of Fire
& Safety Technology. Presently
also Secretary/Treasurer of CFPA-A.
|
|
 Gary Keith, Vice Chairman – Mr. Keith is
NFPA’s Vice President, Field Operations, overseeing four divisions within
the organization: Regional Operations, International Operations, Fire
Analysis & Research and Public Education. Gary also has management
responsibility for NFPA's fire investigation activities. Gary has presided
over the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, a project dedicated to public
education for residential fire sprinkler systems, since its inception in
1996. Prior to coming to NFPA in
1995, Gary worked 15 years for Factory Mutual in Norwood (Mass.) in various
field engineering and management positions. During that time, he served on
several NFPA technical committees and chaired the Pre-Incident Planning
committee. He also served his home town community for 20
years as a call
firefighter and fire protection engineer with the West Bridgewater
(Mass.) Fire
Department.
 Hubert Ruegg, Treasurer - Mr. Ruegg is
General Manager of Swiss Institute for the Promotion of Safety &
Security (Institute of Safety & Security) Zürich Switzerland. The Swiss
Institute of Safety & Security is a service organization for risk
management and corporate safety and security and works with the business
world, insurance companies and the authorities for the purpose of loss
prevention. Prior to joining the Institute in 1995, he was employed from
1986 to 1991 at CIBA-GEIGY AG and from 1991 to 1994 at GURIT-ESSEX AG with
the following responsibilities: Member of the Executive Committee, Group
Manufacturing Director of 250 employees in Switzerland, France, England, Spain
and South Africa. Mr. Ruegg received a Masters Degree in Chemistry at
Technical High School ETH, Zürich in 1983 and proceeded to obtain his PhD
in 1986 with his doctoral thesis in Metalorganic
Chemistry. In 2002, Mr. Ruegg was appointed Chairman of CFPA Europe and
Treasurer of CFPA-I.
 Hatem Ezzat
Kheir, Director – Mr.
Kheir is General Manager of Kheir Group -
Graduated From Cairo University as a Mechanical Engineer on 1981 and worked
one year in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Mansoura
University. He then joined a private sector company in Egypt. He worked in
Saudi Arabia from 1984 until 1989, returning back to Egypt as Area Manager
for international company in pump business. He is a one of the
founders, and a board member of Egyptian Fire Protection Association, and
represented Egypt in many international conferences in fire protection He
is also the only foreign member serving in the technical committee of fire
pump in NFPA, member of SFPE, USA. His company is working in the field of
fluid handling systems, including water, waste water, process, fire, power
and industrial applications. He presently serves as one of four Directors
of CFPA-I.
|
Anders Bergqvist,
Director–Mr. Bergqvist is the
CEO for Swedish Fire Protection Association (SFPA) and the CEO for the RVR Service in Sweden. Anders has a background as a Fire Protection Engineer
graduated from Lund University. Prior the work in SFPA Anders worked for
15 years as an officer (operation, prevention) in the Greater Stockholm
Fire Brigade and before that as a section manager at the SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Fire
Technology, as teacher and project manager at the Swedish Rescue Services
Agency and as a fire-fighting
instructor in the Swedish Navy. Anders has spend great effort in
combining the fire department with the research institutions and made his
own research in the areas of fire in tunnels and fire fatalities.
|
|
|
|
|
Jesper Ditlev, Director–Mr. Ditlev
is the managing director of the Danish Institute of Fire and Security
Technology (DBI). DBI is a
technological service enterprise that endeavors to protect lives and property
by promoting active and passive fire prevention and by enhancing the
level of security and fire safety.
Jesper Ditlev
became Master of Science Civil Engineering in 1990. Prior to joining DBI
in 2000, Jesper worked as a consulting
engineer. Upon joining DBI Jesper initially
headed the testing and consultancy department. From 2003 Jesper became technical director and thus member of
DBI’s board of directors. Effective January 2009 Jesper was appointed managing director.
|
|
|
Gao Wei, Director-Mr. Gao is the secretary - general of China Fire Protection Association. Master of engineering,
Senior Engineer, Senior Colonel. Prior to his current position he was the
director of Science and Technology Division,
Fire Department of Ministry of Public Security(MPS) managing the four
fire research institutes under MPS and the national funds of fire research programs. He is also the Vice Chairman of China Flame Retardant Society. From 1996 to
2005, he was the Secretary-General of National Technical
Committee for Fire Protection Standardization, an organization of drafting national and industrial fire safety standards. He is the head of task group of China national standard GB20286
Requirements and mark on burning behavior of fire retarding products and
subassemblies in public place and industrial standard GA/T 396 Basic data
elements and codes of fire services information. As an Assistant Engineer he worked for Shanghai Fire Research Institute for 5 years in 1980s.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
