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Leadership Team

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Sue Mecham, Ph.D.
CEO

20+ years in polymers, manufacturing, management & sales

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Judy Riffle, Ph.D.
CTO

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Kim Chin
Chief Growth Officer

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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

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Team

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Jay Tuggle

Director of Facilities 

& Product Engineering

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Trevor Schumacher
Senior Chemist

Michael Mecham
Chemist

Amin Asakereh
Engineer

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Mikayla Armstrong
Membrane Scientist

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Andrew Tibbits
Process Engineer

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Alex Lerner
Chemical Engineer

Chris Mecham

Facilities & 

Maintenance Assistant

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Maria Hartman
Corporate Support

Technology Advisors

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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)

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Mike Bortner, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech

Polymer Processing Advisor to NALA Systems

10 years as VP of manufacturing process development at NanoSonic.

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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.

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