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Point 1692 has two main focus areas: Helping investors with industry structure due diligence in specialty chemicals and materials market as unprecedented external forces such as sustainability-driven material selection and overcapacity impact the industry. Identifying and understanding how these forces impact impact specific targets help improve changes in market share and valuation.Helping sustainability-driven, start-ups focused on the specialty chemicals and materials industry improve the probability of successfully penetrating their markets through understanding current industry dynamics and adapting their go-to-market plans.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led five R&D, application development and process development divisions encompassing 340 people and four OUS, regional laboratories that aligned with the goals of Eastman’s Plastics, Engineered Solutions, and Circular Economy businesses as well as Analytical R&D for the company.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led global technical division of ~90 people that successfully executed market and application development programs in filtration and textile markets. Key objective was to grow textiles segment through new product offerings using sustainability value proposition to offset the decline of filtration segment.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led three global divisions responsible for product development, application development and technical services for two different businesses and division that ran external innovation programs with universities and venture capital fund. Global span of control with ~100 people.Acquiring technology and capabilities that compliment Eastman's corporate growth programs through acquisitions, partnerships and Eastman's university networks.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Recurring temporary deployment from Technology to Finance to create acquisition pipeline build and due diligence. Recognized with two CEO Recognition Awards.• Co-lead business due diligence for Eastman’s $4.7B acquisition of Solutia. • Co-lead bolt-on acquisition in electronic chemicals space, Dynaloy, LLC. • Co-lead business due diligence for Eastman’s $2.8B acquisition of Taminco. • Led business case development to acquire Tongxiang Xinglong Fine Chemicals.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led division incubating “new-new” innovation platforms for Eastman and launched two new product platforms. Acqui-hired Tetravitae Bioscience. Established Eastman Centers of Excellence at North Carolina State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led 23-member team of chemists and engineers responsible for developing new products, process improvements and technical service in alignment with business strategy. Dramatically improved employee engagement scores.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Led R&D portfolio management for Coatings and Inks businesses as the company implemented Stage-Gate™ process and new market development system. Also responsible for managing IP and budgets. Contributed to building product line strategies and driving alignment with R&D groups after unwinding of ill-fated resin acquisitions. Established competitive intelligence program with Asia-based colleagues. Responsibilities included management of new product development portfolio, intellectual property, strategy development and certain Asia Pacific initiatives. New product development: two new specialty polymer product platforms.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Developed plan for an internal venture to enter non-traditional businesses. Built JVAA pipeline to met growth goals and led due diligence and acquisition sub-teams in executing the strategy. Also led effort to in-license technologies and build alliances to build a genetic assay-based platform and internal development of a novel, solid phase process for faster sample processing. The business was successfully divested to Neogen Corporation.

Kingsport, Tennessee, Us

Developed subprocesses used to develop a novel bio-based and greener route to manufacturing ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) as compared to the traditional Reichstein process. This work was done as part of a NIST Advanced Technology Program in conjunction with Genencor (now part of Danisco). Co- and lead inventor on 3 published US patents. Awarded first CEO Recognition Award.

Ph.D., Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry