Tom Pounds Email & Phone Number

Cambridgeshire, UK

Senior Management Team member developing and implementing the Company’s business strategy in Photochemical Etching. Responsible for New Technology and Process Introduction / Control, Quality, H&S, Environmental performance and Regulatory affairs.

Cambridge

• Led Process Development, Material Supply and Material Science teams, to devise and implement materials research strategy to effectively support CDT's Display & Lighting programs and to deliver improved Polymer-OLED.
• Part of Management Team (of 5) responsible for the Operational & HSE Management of whole site (~50 employees).
• Direct line management responsibility for 11 scientists (synthetic chemistry & analytical chemistry) & 1 purchasing/lab support role.
• Strategy and implementation of research plans for above teams.
• Polymers process development, optimisation & control for the research group, internal material supply (monomers & polymers).
• Management of FTE & fee for service chemistry outsourcing projects within UK, East & West Europe and Asia.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Materials Chemist designing and synthesising new monomer and polymer systems to improve the performance of P-OLED's, Photovoltaic and other Organic Electronic materials.
• CDT lead for the successful £3.3M TSB funded 3yr project to develop an OLED Lighting materials & panel (collaboration with Thorn Lighting & Durham University, Feb 07' - Feb 10').
• Point of contact with several key European & US customers for lighting & low cost displays. Materials development tailored to meet customer specifications/targets & delivered up to 200g polymer batches.
• Track record of designing new materials based on structural/property correlations & QC modelling.
• Project planning and implementation from route scouting & selection through to material delivery.
• Wide ranging organic synthesis experience with particular expertise in C-C & C-N coupling technologies and routes to functionalised aromatic systems.

• During the first twelve months in this position I worked towards developing a new bleach activator detergent particle and formulation technology to improve solubility and aesthetics of a finished granular detergent.
• Proposed method & produced initial prototypes leading to the Liquitab product generation (see IP below).
• Formulation addition which gave a significant breakthrough in bleach activator solubility and rate of perhydrolysis. Implemented on full plant scale-up.
• Small scale test method developed which later employed in a suppliers facility to test a multi-tonne raw material for colour quality.
• Solubility analysis of a new finished detergent product leading to a formulation change and a win-win consumer test.
• Idea generation as part of the innovation group which has led to several project proposals and patent applications e.g. WO2001083657, WO2001083667, WO2001083668.