The Honorable John S. Bresland John S. Bresland was appointed by President George W. Bush as chairman and chief executive officer of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board in March of 2008. Mr. Bresland previously served as a CSB board member from August 2002 until August 2007. Before joining the Board he was President of Environmental and Safety Risk Assessment LLC, a chemical process safety consulting company based in Morristown, New Jersey. In addition he was a Staff Consultant to the Center for Chemical Process Safety of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, working as a project manager on two committees writing books on dust explosions and the management of reactive chemical hazards. Until August 2000, he was Director of Environmental Risk Management for Honeywell International Inc. in Morristown, New Jersey. While working for Honeywell in Morristown he was responsible for their compliance with EPA's Risk Management Program regulation at 20 facilities in the United States. From 1966 to 2000 he worked for Honeywell in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. He held positions in process engineering, environmental compliance, project management and manufacturing. Before moving to Honeywell's headquarters in Morristown in 1995 he was Plant Manager of the Honeywell phenol and acetone manufacturing plant in Philadelphia. In 2006, Mr. Bresland was appointed to be a member of the Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee. He is also a member of U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards Committee. He has served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council and as Chairman of the Federation of State Chemical Associations. Mr. Bresland graduated in Chemistry from Londonderry Technical College, Northern Ireland and from Salford University, England. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Mr. Bresland and his wife Beth reside in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. (Term ends March 2013)