Accomplished science and technology leader with many years of experience overseeing multi-million dollar, diverse innovation portfolios. Areas of expertise include strategic planning, intellectual property protection, assessment of technology acquisitions, third party collaborations, global regulatory issues, and offshore alliances. Areas of people leadership experience include recruiting and mentoring many scientists, engineers, and technical support staff in research, manufacturing, and regulatory roles in the chemical, biomaterials, and life science industries. Played a key leadership role in revitalizing a discovery research engine from near death to an award-winning pipeline that produced one of DuPont’s most successful products. Specific skills include:• People Leadership: Change management, conflict resolution, talent development, team building• R&D Portfolio Management: Technology valuation, decision and risk analysis, market development • Project Management: All aspects from discovery to scale-up and commercial launch of new products in the chemical and agrochemical industries• Chemistry: Organic, agricultural, polymer, bioorganic, process development, materials science