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Nashville, Tennessee, US

Palm Bay, Florida, US

• Commercial leader for all sales, business development, and marketing for multi-site custom producer/contract manufacturer (FDA, ISO, cGMP) of fine and specialty chemicals. Responsible for business growth, customer.
• Worked in tandem with CEO (under prior Private Equity owners) to sell business to CPS Performance Materials two years early and for a significantly higher than expected multiple in late 2018.
• Grew Palm Bay business 3x during tenure through consistent delivery of double-digit annual revenue/EBITDA growth, achieving highest revenue and EBITDA levels in FAR history.
• Developed new customer relationships and brought in $7M+ in new product POs in last three years
• Led successful commercial integration of acetylacetonates acquisition as well as FAR/CPS merger.
• Created FAR marketing platform (e.g., branded products, website redesign, sales literature, exhibits)FAR Chemical, a division of CPS Performance Materials, is a custom manufacturer of fine and specialty organic and.

Houston, Texas, US

• Technology lead and business leadership team member for newly formed Specialty Chemicals business. Responsible for leadership of multi-site technology team as well as product/process development and commercialization.
• Established new technology team (comprised of scientists, engineers, and technicians) and lab-/pilot-scale capabilities at Alvin, TX and Pensacola, FL locations.
• Drove commercialization of company’s first major new chemicals products (six in total) in 20 years.
• Technical marketing lead for market scoping, customer interviews, and product sales/partnership negotiations for key markets such as CASE, plasticizers, Ag chemicals, oil & gas, and pulp & paper.
• Implemented business unit’s innovation pipeline/portfolio management system.

• Site Director of new Applications Development Research Center. Responsible for all aspects of Vertellus Specialty Materials’ New Jersey and North Carolina-based technology groups.
• Orchestrated grass-roots rebuilding of team and innovation programs to better align research capabilities and development targets with newly uncovered market needs.
• Led all aspects of leasing, design, build-out, and permitting of new R&D center. Project came in 11% under budget and two months ahead of schedule.
• Developed five-year technology vision that outlined strategy to achieve critical staffing levels, competencies, and technology roadmaps for the organization.
• Revised IP, technology transfer, and Portfolio Management/Stage-Gate processes.

• Managed all aspects of a PSM-covered facility producing EO/PO-based polyethers and esterified polyether derivatives via batch processes. Led 24/5 production operation and managed $6 MM operating budget.
• Achieved highest quarterly production volume in plant history while reducing product unit costs, $OT/ton, and quality-blocked inventory.
• Created comprehensive dynamic production database utilizing Access, SAP, and Aspen/DeltaV data interfaces to facilitate trending of quality and process performance.
• Introduced process Kaizen that has reduced cycle times for difficult products by as much as 30%.
• Implemented 5S program that reduced raw material/product waste and improved inventory accuracy.

• Led process technology and new product development group for growing North American silicone, polyether, and oleo-chemical production and served as main liaison with European and Asian plants.
• Realigned group skill sets and project portfolio to focus on high margin specialty silicone product lines.
• Created new global commercialization process that enabled successful scale-up and launch of over a dozen new products at Hopewell site.
• Employed Lean principles to achieve a 6 % capacity increase for fully utilized reactor and statistical process control methods that increased average first-time pass rates by over 40%.

Schenectady, New York, US

• Managed 26-person technical staff (Coatings resin synthesis, applications, analytical, and process engineering/scale-up groups) and $4 MM annual research budget for newly divested $250 million liquid/powder coatings.
• Served as business unit’s Stage-Gate Champion for all R&D projects and drove commercialization of new technologies for emerging/evolving markets.
• Implemented new project portfolio management program that reduced the average time-to-market from over 2 years to less than 8 months.
• Rationalized overgrown liquid/powder resin project portfolio to focus on high hit-rate opportunities.
• Successfully managed group’s various Six Sigma projects that ultimately reduced cycle times, enhanced overall product quality, and increased gross profit margins.

Ph.D., Polymer Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry