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Leadership Team
Sue Mecham, Ph.D.
CEO
20+ years in polymers, manufacturing, management & sales
Judy Riffle, Ph.D.
CTO
Kim Chin
Chief Growth Officer
Tim DeBone
CFO
30+ years in polymers,
medical devices, drug delivery & membranes
25 years in corporate finance
supporting high-growth organizations
30 years building
breakthrough companies
from concept to commercial
Team
Jay Tuggle
Director of Facilities
& Product Engineering
Trevor Schumacher
Senior Chemist
Michael Mecham
Chemist
Amin Asakereh
Engineer
Mikayla Armstrong
Membrane Scientist
Andrew Tibbits
Process Engineer
Alex Lerner
Chemical Engineer
Chris Mecham
Facilities &
Maintenance Assistant
Maria Hartman
Corporate Support
Technology Advisors
Earl Wagener, Ph.D.
CEO Tetramer Technologies,
Ex-Senior Research
Director at Dow Chemical
Membrane Technology Consultant to NALA Systems
Lead technologist for Membrane development at Dow during historic Filmtec Acquisition. Established current technology RO membranes in the market (1980's)
Mike Bortner, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Polymer Processing Advisor to NALA Systems
10 years as VP of manufacturing process development at NanoSonic.
Benny Freeman, Ph.D.
Chemical Engineer, UT Austin
30+ years with polymer membranes. Director of Center of Materials for WAter and Energy Systems (MWET)
Partner in NAWI/DOE Energy-Water Desal Hub.