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Leadership Team

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Sue Mecham, Ph.D.: CEO

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20+ yrs: polymers, manufacturing, management & sales

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Judy Riffle, Ph.D.: CTO

30+ yrs: polymers
(medical devices, drug delivery, membranes)

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Kim Chin, VP of Strategic Alliances and Partnerships

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Business Advisors

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Ann Beal Salamone, MA
Board Chair and
Co-Founder, Rochal Industries

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Has led 6 science-based companies from concept to commercial financial success, National Academy of Engineering, Recipient of Crystal Slipper Award “Executive Woman of the Year"

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Joe DeSimone, Ph.D.
Executive Chairman and 

Co-Founder, Carbon3D

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CEO/Carbon 2013-2019 Member National Academy of Engineering, Medicine, and Science, Award winning serial entrepreneur

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Bob Ward, Ph.D.
President, CEO and Co-Founder, ExThera Medical

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Serial Entrepreneur, previous successful exit as CEO and Co-Founder at PTG, National Academy of Engineering

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J P Dailey, M.D. Founder and Managing Partner Erie Retinal Surgery Clinic.

Investor, inventor, and entrepreneur: Medical Devices and commercial real estate. 

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

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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

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10 years as VP of manufacturing process development at NanoSonic.

Lab Team

Membrane technologists: Synthesizing polymers, fabricating and testing membranes

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Michael Mecham, B.A. Chem (left), Jay Tuggle, Ph.D. Eng. (middle), Trevor Schumacher, Ph.D. Chem (right)

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30+ yrs: polymer membranes, 

Director of Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems (MWET). Partner in NAWI/DOE Energy-Water Desal Hub

Benny Freeman, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering, UT Austin

Marketing and Sales

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Alex Smith

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Marketing and Sales Administrator

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