Ronald B. (Ron) Adams is Global Portfolio Manager - Petroleum, with Sulzer Pumps in Houston, TX. He works with product development on new product definition and provides global product support.  He has been with Sulzer since 1991 and has held various sales, marketing, and alliance management positions.  Previously, he was with Ingersoll-Rand  for over 18 years in pumps and hyperpressure equipment businesses. 

He received his BS degree (Mechanical Engineering Technology, 1974) from Southern Technical Institute (summa cum laude) and studied toward his MBA at Georgia State University.  He is a member of the ISO 13709 / API 610 Joint Working Group,  API 676, and API 685 subcommittees.