Hassan El-Sayed – UL
Hassan El-Sayed – UL
Functional Safety - Business Development Manager
PhD, CEng, FInstMC, UL-CFSX
- Hassan started as an Ultrasonic Instrument Design Engineer in 1990, designing ultrasonic clamp-on and open
channels flowmeters for safe and Hazardous locations. - Spent 13 years developing embedded control and instrumentation products for fluid flow industry, and 7 years as a R&D manager at Moore Industries in LA, USA. Designing and developing physical layer equipment for use in hazardous areas for foundation fieldbus and safety critical loops.
- In 2010, he moved to Sira Certification (NB) in UK as technical consultant in functional and Intrinsic safety.
- In 2012, he became a team lead of Functional Safety (FS), managing FS products and company certifications.
- In 2016, he moved to a new position as business manager in FS till September 2020.
- In October 2020, Hassan moved to UL as BDM in Functional safety.
- He brings more than 30 years of industrial experience in Functional Safety, Ex products design, safety devices in Hazloc, products certification and hands-on in applying IEC 61508, IEC 61511, EN 50271, Safety of Machinery, etc.
- Delivered over 100 projects in functional safety, covering products and FSM certifications.
- Published several FS technical papers in conferences and delivered many FS seminars in UK, US, Japan and China.
- Granted the first redundant fieldbus system for use in Hazloc, interfaced with Emerson, Yokogawa, ABB logic solvers, and installed by Chevron, PB , Shell, and Aramco and PDO.
- Granted more than 10 patents from USA and UK in instrumentation for use in Fieldbus.
- Received best award for a technical paper presented at ISR (49th Symposium on Robotics), held in July 2017 in Shanghai, China.
- He is an active member in SC65/ MT 61508 , GEL 65/1 and TC31 / WG 42.