With 15 years’ experience, Chris is recognized as an expert in the recall industry and routinely speaks on best practices at trade shows, conventions, and conferences. Throughout his career, he has managed more than 1,200 recall and in-market remediations, including hundreds for the nation’s largest brands. Chris also is on the board of directors of the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization and is presently serving as Vice President on ICPHSO’s Executive Committee.

Executive Director, Chief Engineer for GE Appliances, a Haier Company headquartered in Louisville, KY. Her career spans over 26 years with GE Appliances in roles of increasing responsibility within the engineering organization. Kyran currently leads the Office of Chief Engineer organization with responsibility for independent technical oversight across all product lines and platforms including energy regulations, technical regulations and standards, product safety, and cyber security. Kyran also serves on the AHAM Board of Directors.

Molly Lynyak is a manager in the Technical Committee Operations Division of ASTM International, one of the largest voluntary standards development organizations in the world. In her role, Lynyak has direct responsibility for the standards development activities within Committee F15 on Consumer Products and Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action. By bringing together industry and manufacturers, consumers, testing labs and regulators, Lynyak manages the technical committee that addresses hazards for a range of consumer product areas such as toys, juvenile products, playgrounds, and furniture safety, amongst others. Many of these standards have been the basis for mandatory rules through incorporation by reference under the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) and have been used internationally. Lynyak also supports the important role Committee E50’s standards play in environmental site assessments, due diligence practices, real estate transactions and greener cleanups. Prior to her work at ASTM, Lynyak worked as an advocate and leader in the New York City Criminal Justice System for underprivileged, court-involved youth and in Philadelphia coordinating child abuse investigations amongst law enforcement, child services and medical partners. Lynyak earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wagner College. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, NY.

Kenneth L. d’Entremont, Ph.D., P.E is an Associate Professor and faculty in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Family & Preventive Medicine (DFPM) at the University of Utah. He teaches courses in product safety and engineering ethics, system safety, industrial safety, and Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety (OEHS). His position is supported by the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH) which is a NIOSH-funded ERC (Education and Research Center). He also supervises Capstone-Design (Senior Design) project engineering-student teams who have investigated such topics as worker fall protection and riding lawn-mower safety (underway). He has participated in a panel discussion for IKEA’s (Sweden) titled “IKEA Talks: A Safer Life at Home is a Better Life at Home” for internal global broadcast. Here he spoke to the importance of real-world consumer-product testing and values versus priorities in business leadership. In addition, he has lectured at several SPSP (Society of Product Safety Professionals) events and participated in ICPHSO (International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization) panel discussions. Ken published a textbook titled Engineering Ethics and Design for Product Safety (McGraw Hill, 2021.) He uses this for his product-safety course and addresses both safety concepts and their applications. He emphasizes ethical decision making in designing safe consumer products and asks that organizations encourage, and reward ethical