Vince Lichtinger is the manager of the Fuels and Emerging Technology group for Marathon Petroleum Corporation. He graduated with Honors from Case Western Reserve University in 1989 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and began work at Marathon Oil Company as an Associate Chemical Engineer creating process simulations of refineries. Vince then spent 6 years in the upstream side of the business, providing process engineering support for Marathon’s gas processing plants and compression facilities in Michigan, Oklahoma, and Kansas. In 1995, he returned to Findlay and worked in the Product Quality group for about 10 years. He was then manager of the Corporate HES Auditing group for two years and audited all MPC’s operations, including refineries, terminals, and pipelines. Vince spent the following six years in Terminal, Transport, and Rail leading trucking logistics and terminal operations. From 2015-2017, he led Operational Excellence across all of Logistics & Storage. In November 2017, he was named Manager of Fuels and Emerging Technology for MPC.