Antonio Pietri joined AspenTech in 1996 and serves as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations, based in Burlington, Massachusetts. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Regional Operations, Asia Pacific from his base in Beijing, China. During his tenure at AspenTech, Pietri has held a variety of sales and business development positions, beginning in 1993 as sales manager for Setpoint Inc., a company which AspenTech acquired in 1996. In 1998, he became Program Director for the implementation of AspenTech’s integrated refining solution at two refineries for a major European client, and later served as a consultant to a super major in a program to coordinate and run its manufacturing business processes. Pietri relocated to Singapore in 2002 as Vice President, Business Consulting, and was subsequently promoted to Managing Director of the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining AspenTech, he was employed by ABB Simcon as an applications engineer, implementing advanced control and multi-variable controllers on refining processes. Pietri holds an MBA degree from the University of Houston and a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa. |