John Alkemade is the Vice President EMEA & APAC for Asset Performance Networks, based out of the office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He possesses more than 30 years of strategic project & turnaround management experience spanning the wider energy industries. In his current role, John shares responsibility for the development and growth of the company’s presence in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Australia.
As a part of AP-Networks, John has executed numerous Corporate Governance Programs, Strategic interventions, Change management, Work Process Developments, Project Assurance Assessment, Corporate benchmarking, and Risk Assessments.
In 1991, John started his career as a process design engineer for Lummus Crest in The Netherlands. He worked as a Project Manager – Dynamic Simulations for ABB Simcon, and later as an Ethylene Business Development Manager for ABB Lummus Global. Prior to joining AP-Networks, John worked at IPA as a Senior Project Management Consultant – Capital Project Benchmarking. In this role, he worked with project and engineering organizations and senior corporate leadership to improve management of their mega capital projects (e.g., LNG, Integrated PetChem sites). His clients included integrated oil/chemicals companies, national oil companies, and commodity chemical companies.
John holds a BSc degree in Chemical Engineering and a MSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
