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Combined, AEREON’s leadership team has more than 200 years of industry experience and is dedicated to a customer-first approach that helps our clients understand the changing oil and gas environment.
Michael Hainsworth is President and Chief Executive Officer of AEREON. He is tasked with spearheading the growth, strategic vision and plan execution for the organization. Alongside the company's business and technical leaders, Hainsworth focuses on delivering competitively-priced gas and vapor handling solutions to meet the highest level of safety, quality and environmental responsibility.
Previously, Hainsworth was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Flare Industries, which in 2012 merged with Jordan Technologies to create AEREON. He joined Flare Industries in 1994 and later became the company’s global sales manager before becoming President in 2007 and CEO in 2011. Under his leadership, and prior to the merger with Jordan, Flare Industries nearly tripled its revenue and increased profits more than 10 times since 2007.
Mark Zyskowski serves as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for AEREON. Since beginning his career in 1983, Zyskowski has gained more than 30 years of experience in sales and sales management with companies servicing the hydrocarbon industries.
Prior to joining AEREON, Zyskowski developed a solid understanding of the global process industries and sales management through serving as Vice President, Global Sales for Honeywell Process Solutions and in various senior sales leadership roles at both Aspen Technology and Baker Hughes.
Zyskowski received his Bachelor of Applied Science in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto. Currently based in Houston, Texas, he has been married for more than 25 years and has two children.
Romer Bracho serves as Chief Operating Officer for AEREON. Bracho began his career in Venezuela with PDVSA (National Oil Company) in 1990 where he joined as mechanical design engineer. In 1993, relocated to the USA to pursue graduate studies and later joined Schlumberger where he held various positions around the world in quality assurance, sales and field operations, new product development, manufacturing/supply chain and management.
In 2008, following successive promotions, left Schlumberger as Manufacturing Center Manager to join Tejas Completion Solutions as their Sr. VP of Manufacturing and COO, to focus his efforts on broadening the company products and services offering. In 2011, joined Halliburton as Eastern Hemisphere Manufacturing Director to focus on the startup of their new global flagship Completions Technology and Manufacturing Center located in Singapore.
Bracho received a Mechanical Engineering degree from the Universidad del Zulia in Venezuela and Masters of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Houston. Married for 23 years, father of three boys.
Ben Smith serves as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for AEREON, overseeing the financial and strategic business development activities of the company.
With more than 15 years of experience in energy finance, Smith joined AEREON in 2012. Prior to 2012, Smith served as a Director for Denham Capital, and was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing private equity investments in the oil, gas and mining sectors. He began his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in the energy investment banking group and has also worked in operating, investment and business development roles at El Paso Corporation and K2 Energy Partners.
Smith earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Princeton University and currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Mark Thatcher serves as Vice President, Flare System Technology for AEREON, overseeing and managing the "Flares" business line which includes flares, ignition systems, and fully enclosed flares.
Thatcher has more than 20 years of industry experience in project management, technical design, sales, marketing and business development. Before assuming his current role at AEREON in 2011, Thatcher worked for Flare Industries as Latin American Regional Sales Manager, European Regional Sales Manager based out of Barcelona, Spain and as Marketing and Sales Manager.
Prior to joining AEREON, Thatcher worked at John Zink in the early 90s and for five years at Koch Industries – both involving heaters and flare technology.
Thatcher received a dual degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from the University of Kansas, where he graduated at the top of his class. He currently resides in Austin, and is the father of two children. He is tri-lingual in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Ihab Al-Bierouti serves as Vice President of Sales, Eastern Hemisphere for AEREON. He leads the company’s activities in the Middle East, Asia, Northern Africa and CIS region, including management of offices and distributors in these areas. Since joining AEREON in 1998, Al-Bierouti has gained extensive international experience in sales and business development in this region. Previously, he served in an engineering and sales capacity for several years in the oil and gas industries.
Al-Bierouti received his undergraduate degree and his Masters of Chemical Engineering from Jordan University of Science & Technology. He is married, has three grown children and lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Kevin Book currently serves as VP - US Upstream Sales and Services for Aereon, a Texas-based global service company offering gas and vapor handling solutions across all sectors of the OIl and Gas industry. Mr. Book has over 17 years of experience in the oil and gas industry with more than 10 of those in executive leadership positions. Prior to Aereon, Mr. Book held executive roles with CSI Compressco LP (CCLP on Nasdaq), a world leader in natural gas compression, where he founded the Canadian division before expanding the company's global footprint to numerous international markets.
Mr. Book played a key role in Compressco's organic growth success, IPO, and ~$1B acquisition of CSI in 2014. Prior to joining Compressco, Mr. Book worked as a Production Engineer for Conoco Philips. Mr. Book holds a BSc - Mathematics degree with Distinction from the University of Alberta, and a BSc - Petroleum Engineering degree with Special Distinction from the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Book currently lives with his family in Austin, Texas.
Francesco serves as Managing Director of AEREON Europe and is responsible for managing our Operations Centre in Milan, Italy which includes Engineering, Sales and Service capabilities. This Operations Centre supports the European, African and Middle East markets for all product lines. Francesco joined Aereon/Jordan Technologies in 2005 as an engineer after completing his Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy and then became the Managing Director of the European Operations Centre in 2010.
He is currently based in Milan.
Michael currently serves as Managing Director - Australasia and is responsible for managing our Operations Centre in Melbourne, Australia which includes Engineering, Manufacturing, Sales and Service capabilities. In addition, Michael is also tasked with leading our Sales team throughout Australia and South East Asia.
Prior to joining AEREON, Michael successfully owned and operated his own engineering and manufacturing company where he developed a solid understanding of selling and building capital equipment throughout Australasia. Michael received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours from the Monash University. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, Michael has been married for 13 years and has three children.
Kathy Wiederkehr serves as Vice President, Human Resources for AEREON, overseeing the company’s human resources and recruitment activities. She served as Director, Human Resources, AEREON from 2012 to 2014 when she assumed the role of Vice President and Human Resources Manager from 2010 to 2012.
Prior to joining AEREON, Wiederkehr worked in the oilfield equipment manufacturing industry for four years at Martin Decker Inc. and for two years at SWECO, Inc. Wiederkehr has additional experience in the industry, having worked in the manufacturing of capital equipment, electronics and medical devices.
Wiederkehr graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas, where she also received her Master of Business, and currently lives in Austin, Texas.
