International Markets for Specialty and Fine Chemicals and Technology

Expertise

• Senior executive with broad international experience, including over 25 years in the chemical and related industries.
• Technology assessment, global management, commercial development.
• Strong Experience with international business management, commercial development and strategic planning.
• Technology focusing and transfer.
• Cross-cultural Development.
• Unique management experience in bio/fine specialties for major European chemical manufacturers.
• International management experience working and living in France, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States
• Extensive experience with multinational technical/cultural interfaces within organizations.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, 1997 - Present

• Managing Director, Philadelphia, U.S.A. and Paris, France, 2003 - Present
• Co-founder and principal strategist for a private consulting and technology transfer firm specializing in fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, additives for plastics, and international business management.

Ozark Flourine Specialties, Philadelphia, Director of Business Development, 2000 - 2003

• Responsible for the strategic development of the Fluorine Specialties business, including strategic planning, marketing, product licensing, joint ventures, new business development and technology acquisition.

Elf Atochem Group, Philadelphia, USA, 1981 - 2000

• General Manager, 1996 - 2000
• Managed the worldwide Inorganic Fluorine Specialties business, including P&L responsibility, marketing, product licensing, joint ventures, and technology acquisition prior to and during the divestiture process.
• Business Manager (Elf Atochem Agri, S.A., Plaisir, France), 1995 - 1996
• Sales of 380 million FF (75 million USD).
• Responsible for the development and international expansion of pre-harvest products.
• Director of Technology (Akishima Chemical Industries, Tokyo, Japan), 1993 - 1995
• Responsible for worldwide technology transfer of plastic additive products and their commercial development within Elf Atochem Japan with sales of $24 million.
• Department Head (Bio & Fine Division Industrial Specialties, CECA, S.A.,France), 1989 - 1993
• Directed European operations with P&L responsibility for an annual turnover of $35 million, involving over 180 employees.
• Market Manager (M&T Chemicals, New Jersey, U.S.A.), 1981 - 1989
• Business management responsibility for several product lines of the North American subsidiary including fine chemicals, plastic additives and industrial products.

Ferro Corporation, Product Manager International Division, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1977 - 1981

• Monitored financial and operational results of six foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures.
• Performed technology audits and acquisition analyses.

Other Professional Experience, 1970 - 1977

• North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chemistry Professor
• University of Minnesota, Chemistry Professor
• Moscow State University (USSR), Senior Fulbright Professor
• Environmental Protection Agency, Control Systems Laboratory

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers, Certified

Languages

• English - mother tongue
• French - read, write, and speak fluently
• Russian - conversational

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Fulbright Alumni Association, Board of Directors
• Americours, Board of Directors
• Consultant to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars.
• American Chemical Society
• Commercial Development and Marketing Association.
• Bolton Society.
• Licensing Executives Society.
• Robert Boyle Society.

Publications and Patents

• Over 35 publications in the field of fine chemicals and plastics.
• Co-editor of the Handbook of Reagents.
• Author of 'Survival Manual for Academic Exchange Visitors to the Soviet Union.'

Education

• Ph.D. Organometallic Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology