Marco Pelella is Engineering Manager for NPI SystemsEng.&Operability of CentrifugalCompressor&TurboExpander Applications at BakerHughes, in Florence,Italy.His responsibilities include the new product system and architecture definition,the definition of process control philosophies,development of dynamic simulations and optimization for CentrifugalCompressors and TurboExpanders applications.He joined GE in 1999 as CentrifugalCompressors Design Engineer and covered several positions as CentrifugalCompressor Design Manager working on integrally geared compressors,pipelines, LNG and DownStream applications until the 2014 when he took the present role.Mr.Pelella graduated with honor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Naples,Italy in 1997,he has authored and coauthored 8 papers in compressor field and he presently holds 10+ patents.