John Ireland, President and CEO, Downstreamenergy.com.
served for eight years as senior management for Tosco Corporation. John has a proven track record in strategic and corporate planning as well as business development. Prior to his employment with Tosco, John provided international oil brokerage services in the U.S. and Singapore. He was instrumental in the opening of United Petroleum International's office, introduced the Far East to product swap transactions and was employed as a biochemical process engineer for Life Sciences, Inc. John received his MBA from the Sloan School of Management, MIT. He is also a graduate of Brown University, earning a BA in Chemical Engineering and a MA in Biochemical Engineering.