Pilko and Associates


"A life-long career in crisis management, EHS management, auditing and transactions"

Vince Marchesani
Position: Senior Advisor
Office: Bonita Springs, FL
Email: vince@pilko.com
Phone: 484-354-2196
Fax: 713-357-0990

Biography
“What I like best about my work is that I don’t ever do the same thing twice,” says Vince Marchesani, one of the few EHS consultants who has specialized in this work his entire career. Vince got his start with laundry-detergent enzymes at Rohm and Haas. “If you stress the enzyme-producing bugs in their environment, they made more enzymes,” he says. “So I took a course in environmental science to learn how to increase the stress. I kept taking courses, and before I knew it, I found myself in a developing field.”

Now on the ground floor of a new movement, and as part of his long-term strategy to develop expertise in his chosen field, Vince moved to the regulatory side. During his tenure with the New Jersey Bureau of Air Pollution Control, he wrote many of the state’s new regulations. Other work with planning commissions drew him into the development of EHS management systems. “I’ve always been interested in the practical side of the business,” he says.

From government, Vince moved across the street to industry: Allied Chemical Company faced a mammoth cleanup from an environmental exposure they had inadvertently acquired, and they called on Vince to help solve the problem. “They told me, ‘Come and don’t be prepared to go home – we’re going to create an environmental audit system for manufacturing plants.’ We did that in one week, and when it was done, we did 77 audits of plants around the country in six weeks. This was the first audit of its type, and now it’s done regularly.”

With a good report from the audit, Vince found a new challenge at ICI Americas, which had just created a department of 78 people to focus on EHS issues. Vince was invited to direct the environmental program, and went on to develop the company’s environmental audit procedure. He was also ICI Americas’ environmental liaison to Europe.

From ICI, a friend drew him to Basell, where he served as Vice President of NA Corporate Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) Affairs. One of the activities that pleased him most here was developing new approaches to crisis management. “What a fascinating experience!” he says. “We constructed scenarios, very real, even a television crew in the hallway. One scenario was scheduled for 45 minutes every morning for four days, but I had to throw people out after two or three hours! There’s a lot to crisis management that people never suspect.”

In addition to his expertise in crisis management and auditing, Vince is also well experienced in mergers and acquisitions, having been involved with both at ICI and Basell. In his spare time, he enjoys painting and playing piano and guitar. He and his wife, an ex-teacher of European history, have three children.

Work Experience:

June 1991- June 2006:
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1976 - To Date: Concentrated course work in:
1972 - 1975
1968 - 1971
1964 - 1967
1959 - 1964
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