The Institute of Corrosion is very pleased to announce the successful election of Stephen Tate as its New President and Dr Yunnan Gao as its New Vice President.
Stephen has worked with Aberdeen Branch Committee for the past 11 yrs in various roles and has twice been its Branch Chair. Presently supporting the TOTAL Energies North Sea Operations though Oceaneering International, he has worked with many Integrity Vendors including AMEC, CAN (Offshore), MACAW, OIS and STORK over the last 23 yrs.
Before that he was an employee of ACEL (CP and Pipelines) for 16yrs and TRW Ferranti (Subsea) Systems for 2 yrs in Holland. He has wide practical experience of Corrosion Control activities in many Operational areas.
Stephen may be contacted at: president@icorr.org
President Handover on 10/11/22, Bill Hedges to Stephen Tate
Dr Yunnan Gao – New ICorr Vice President
Yunnan has been an active Aberdeen Branch Committee member for the last 8yrs. He has twice held the Chair position and has also acted as Vice Chair in support of Stephen Tate, helping to expand both the Branch membership and local Sponsorship. He has Extensive Energy experience both in the UK and Overseas.
Currently he is based at BP Sunbury UK but also supports the BP Aberdeen Operations. After his PhD studies, his employers have included Atkins, DNV GL, LR, Repsol Sinopec, Saipem and Stork, in the areas of Asset Integrity and Corrosion Management.
We wish them both success in their new roles for the Institute and believe that together they will make great Team, as ICorr continues to expand its Membership both in the UK and Overseas.
At this time, we would like to pay tribute to our retiring President Bill Hedges who has guided us through some very difficult times over the past 2 years, especially during the 1st year Covid when our Institute income was falling significantly. During that time, he has shown excellent governance and leadership throughout and has laid good foundations for us all.
Bill will be a very hard act to follow, but we will strive to build on the reforms he has put in place and continue his good work.
We thank him today, for all his support and guidance.
