Andrews is a vice president of the Commercial Center of Excellence and commercial vice president-Asia Pacific at CoorsTek, a privately held technical ceramics company in Golden, Colorado. She previously spent 27 years at Dow, starting in the research assignments program before transitioning to roles in technical service, new business development, mergers and acquisitions, and marketing and sales in multiple business divisions across the company.

Peters is the W.H. and J.G. Lycan Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research studies rates and mechanisms of catalysis, nucleation and crystal growth rate with rare events techniques from molecular simulation and quantum chemistry. Peters conducted post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire (CECAM) in Lyon, France. He then held ranks of assistant, associate and full professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara before moving to the University of Illinois.

After serving as vice president of technology with Albaugh LLC, North America, over the last 11 years, Oppliger is currently a consultant with the company and will fully retire at the end of the year. He started his career at Reichhold Chemicals and moved on to Forbo Adhesives, Valspar and SABIC. Oppliger is a member of the Chemical Engineering Industrial Advisory Board and was the chairman from 2020-22.