Speakers

Stephen L. Cabano is President of Pathfinder, LLC, a project management consulting firm specializing in the planning, development and execution of domestic and international capital plant construction projects.  With 30+ years of project engineering and project management experience in the industrial and commercial facilities industry, he has provided cost, scheduling, procurement, and similar project-related services for owner and government clients in the Petroleum, Petrochemical, Chemical, Power, Environmental, Pharmaceutical, Industrial and Commercial industries in the United States and worldwide.

Stephen earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University and is a member of the AACE International (AACE), Construction Industry Institute (CII), Engineering and Construction Contracting Association (ECC), and the Project Management Institute (PMI). He received the AACE O.T. Zimmerman Founder's Award in 2016 and the AACE Brian D. Dunfield Education Service Award in 2021. Also in 2021, Stephen was presented with the CII 2021 Richard L. Tucker Leadership & Service Award. In 2023, Stephen was awarded AACE Fellow status.

Stephen is a lead instructor for Pathfinder’s training division, designing, developing, and presenting project related training sessions and is an internationally recognized training instructor. He has also authored several articles for Chemical Processing, Chemical Engineering, Refinery Today and PMI.