Lora Thrun has over 27 years experience in advanced materials across the semiconductor, automotive, and solid oxide fuel cell industries. She started her career at General Motors as a New Product Development Engineer in Flint Michigan where she earned black belts in Six Sigma and Robust Engineering methodologies. In 2007, she joined NexTech Materials/Nexceris, where she held positions of Director of Commercialization and Director of Operations. At Nexceris, she successfully authored many State, Federal, and Defense research grants and established an ISO9001 quality management system from ground up.Lora joined Tosoh SMD in 2015 and is currently the Sr. Director of Engineering and Quality at Tosoh SMD, where she is responsible for Engineering, Quality, EHS, laboratories, and Manufacturing support. Lora holds 9 U.S. patents with one pending.
Listed skills include Materials Science, Fuel Cells, Design Of Experiments, Continuous Improvement, and 25 others.