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Gui­do Soyk

Gui­do Soyk / Foun­der + CEO of SOYK GmbH

Mr. Gui­do Soyk has spent his enti­re pro­fes­sio­nal life in the petro­che­mi­cal indus­try, whe­re he gai­ned rele­vant expe­ri­ence and was respon­si­ble for projects/turnarounds of up to € 300 million.

Mr. Gui­do Soy­k’s pro­fes­sio­nal care­er began at the oil com­pa­ny BP. He held various posi­ti­ons the­re, from main­ten­an­ce and pro­ject manage­ment to the last 5 years as a refi­nery inspec­tor.

Mr. Gui­do Soyk was also invol­ved in various tur­n­arounds in the USA for BP.

In 2007, Mr Gui­do Soyk co-foun­ded Endegs GmbH, whe­re he was a mem­ber of the manage­ment board until he foun­ded SIS GmbH in 2008. In the ear­ly days, the com­pa­ny focu­sed on the pro­vi­si­on of spe­cia­list per­son­nel for tur­n­arounds and pro­jects, but quick­ly shifted its focus to emis­si­on reduc­tion in the petro­che­mi­cal indus­try as a whole.

Both com­pa­nies now ope­ra­te under the umbrel­la of ETS Group GmbH, in which Mr. Gui­do Soyk is a co-part­ner and pro­vi­des his exper­ti­se to the com­pa­ny as a mem­ber of the advi­so­ry board.

SOYK GmbH was foun­ded in 2020 by Mr. Gui­do Soyk and acts as a gene­ral con­trac­tor for pro­jects in the petro­che­mi­cal industry.

Jan Soyk

At the begin­ning of Sep­tem­ber 2023, Mr. Jan Soyk star­ted working as a pro­ject coor­di­na­tor at SOYK GmbH and has sin­ce been respon­si­ble for sup­port­ing our cus­to­mers, sup­pli­ers and plan­ning our projects.

SOYK GmbH’s pro­ject plan­ning is car­ri­ed out in clo­se coor­di­na­ti­on with our col­le­agues and various SOYK GmbH con­trac­tors on site at our con­s­truc­tion sites.

Mr. Jan Soyk has been working in the oil and gas indus­try for seve­ral years and has acqui­red exten­si­ve indus­try know­ledge in the degas­sing of flat-bot­tom tanks. Befo­re joi­ning SOYK GmbH, he work­ed for SIS GmbH as a key account mana­ger for various major cus­to­mers in Germany.

In par­ti­cu­lar, he was respon­si­ble for sales, clo­se cus­to­mer sup­port and, in par­ti­cu­lar, the pre­pa­ra­ti­on of offers that were tail­o­red to the indi­vi­du­al case and the spe­ci­fic needs of the customer.

In addi­ti­on to the afo­re­men­tio­ned tasks, Mr. Soyk also car­ri­ed out spe­cia­list work on site as a com­bus­ti­on cham­ber ope­ra­tor during his pre­vious employ­ment at SIS GmbH. The­se acti­vi­ties included the ope­ra­ti­on and tech­ni­cal moni­to­ring of the com­bus­ti­on cham­bers as well as pro­ject coor­di­na­ti­on with the respec­ti­ve ope­ra­tor of the plants to be degas­sed.

In Decem­ber 2023, Mr. Jan Soyk was also appoin­ted as an aut­ho­ri­zed signa­to­ry of SOYK GmbH.

Kars­ten Klein

Mr. Kars­ten Klein is working for SOYK GmbH as pro­ject coor­di­na­tor for the oil and gas indus­try sin­ce 01.02.2023

Until 31.01.2023, he mana­ged the lar­gest envi­ron­men­tal engi­nee­ring site in Ger­ma­ny of TÜV SÜD Indus­trie Ser­vice GmbH at Mön­chen­glad­bach (Ger­ma­ny) as part of the accre­di­ted and noti­fied mea­su­ring insti­tu­te accor­ding to § 29b BImSchG. Mr. Kars­ten Klein has more than 25 years of pro­fes­sio­nal expe­ri­ence in the field of envi­ron­men­tal engi­nee­ring, inclu­ding 13 years as a mana­ger (disci­pli­na­ry as well as sales and results respon­si­bi­li­ty) over experts and sur­vey­ors (most recent­ly 41 employees*) from the spe­cia­list fields of emis­si­on mea­su­re­ment technology/functional testing/calibration, emis­si­on con­trol, olfac­to­me­try as well as from the field of con­ta­mi­na­ted sites/land recy­cling and envi­ron­men­tal due diligence.

His pro­fes­sio­nal focus is on envi­ron­men­tal con­sul­ting, espe­ci­al­ly in soil and ground­wa­ter pro­tec­tion and land recy­cling (many years of exper­ti­se in the inves­ti­ga­ti­on and assess­ment of dama­ge cau­sed by leaka­ge of water-pol­lu­ting sub­s­tances: oil spills / leaka­ge of hea­vy and light vola­ti­le hydro­car­bons in the oil and che­mi­cal indus­try). In recent years, Mr. Kars­ten Klein has spe­cia­li­zed in the pre­pa­ra­ti­on of clea­ning and dis­po­sal con­cepts during repairs of flat-bot­tom tanks.

In addi­ti­on to pro­ject coor­di­na­ti­on, Mr. Kars­ten Klein is respon­si­ble for the pre­pa­ra­ti­on of con­cepts, state­ments, docu­men­ta­ti­on, and expert reports on all the afo­re­men­tio­ned topics, inclu­ding manage­ment by the authorities.

Mr. Klein also assu­mes the func­tion of the per­son respon­si­ble for ope­ra­ti­ons at our spe­cia­list com­pa­ny in accordance with the WHG.