Prestigious IChemE Franklin Medal for 2024 awarded to Empirisys CEO Gus Carroll
Leading data science and process safety company Empirisys’ CEO, Gus Carroll, has been awarded the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Franklin Medal for 2024; one of the most prestigious accolades in the Chemical Engineering community.
IChemE medals and prizes are awarded annually, and celebrate the remarkable achievements of individuals, universities and companies, encompassing an array of talent from both industry and academia.
The Franklin Medal has been awarded to Gus Carroll following his outstanding and continuing positive influence across a long and diverse career in safety performance across a range of chemical industry organisations and regulators.
Commenting on the award, Gus said: “I am humbled and honoured to have been recognised by IChemE for the contribution I have made to process safety over the last thirty years, working within major hazard operating companies, trade associations and with regulatory authorities.”
Iain Conn, Empirisys’ Chairman, and a Fellow of the IChemE adds: “This is excellent news and incredibly well deserved by Gus. As a long standing IChemE member I am very well aware of the prestige associated with the Franklin Medal – the most prestigious award in its field.
Its recipients are recognised as influential leaders, and we are all incredibly proud of Gus in receiving the Medal which highlights his merits as an outstanding leader who has both made a huge contribution through his process safety and risk engineering expertise as well as having become an outstanding role model to others. As co-founder and CEO of Empirisys his leadership in risk reduction in high hazard industries continues”.
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About Empirisys
Empirisys was founded to uncover vital intelligence within your organisation. This hidden data can be refined into unique insights, and then transformed into practical solutions.
Our team of engineers, process safety experts and data scientists call upon decades of deep sector experience to uncover the hidden value of existing data.
We pride ourselves on attracting clients who recognise the value that we discover from insights, intuition and expert-led data crunching.
Our clients trust us to help them get the important decisions right. They seek us out for our blend of analysis, process design, data science and engineering expertise. They stay with us because we continually make a difference to their businesses.
We give our clients the bespoke, data-driven processes they need to transform their organisations from within.