On this episode of PodCAT we welcome Cathy Tway, bp’s Senior Director for Chemistry and Catalysis. Cathy designs and directs development programs to deliver bp’s growth engines portfolio. Cathy has a wealth of industrial experience, having held leadership roles at several major chemical companies including most recently serving in leadership positions at both Johnson Matthey and Dow before joining bp. She has industrial experience in identifying and creating new science and technologies, scaling up processes, commercialization, licensing, and plant support of catalytic systems. Cathy is passionate about technology commercialization, and she has successfully brought two new inorganic materials and four catalyst technologies to market, with two of these processes still in operation today.

Cathy frequently serves on review panels, boards, and committees, supporting numerous external initiatives including many for the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she is currently a member of the Chemical Sciences and Technology Board. In recognition of her contributions to inorganic materials science Cathy was recently named a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. She is a physical inorganic chemist by training, earning her PhD from the University of Nebraska. We are thrilled to have Cathy Tway on PodCAT!

The opinions expressed in the podcast are Cathy Tway's and do not necessarily reflect those of bp.