Chemical Engineer Consultant and Expert Witness for Catalysts Technology

Consultant #1105

Expert witness experience and litigation support, particular to catalysts and process technologies utilizing catalysts.
Heterogeneous catalyst research and development manufacture and global sales.
Catalyst and petrochemical process research, development, global licensing and technology transfer.
Catalyst and process technologies for ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, ethylene and propylene glycol ethers, ethanolamines, propylene oxide, styrene, methyl methacrylate, ethoxylates, polyether polyols, oxo chemicals, ethyleneamines, maleic anhydride, 1,4-butanediol, hydrogen peroxide, acetic acid, acetic anhydride, formic acid, formaldehyde, nitric acid.
Patent and Intellectual property portfolio and infringement analysis.
General knowledge of process production technologies and catalysts for all major chemicals and petrochemical feedstocks and intermediates.
Commercialization of new catalyst and process technologies.
Economic evaluations and modeling of process technologies.
Product portfolio and business analysis and evaluation; research and development management.
Due diligence support for technology and business acquisitions and divestitures.
Competitive analysis; strategic planning; process intensification.

Undisclosed Company, 2001 - Present

Technology and general management consulting practice, including expert witness and litigation support, related catalytic process technologies and new catalysts.
Research and development planning and management focused on chemical process and catalyst technology, technology licensing, patent analysis, mergers and acquisitions and market studies.
Evaluation of proposed R&D projects, program auditing and assessment of technology readiness for commercialization for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), petrochemical companies and catalyst companies.
Merit reviewer for a number of industry areas within the DOE ITP Program, including chemicals, forest products, fuels, and materials for separations.
Market studies and technical reports, and economic models, for a developer of biomass-based chemical production processes.
Technical support for expert witnesses to several forensic consulting organizations; and expert witness for a major chemical company, involving a supply contract dispute with a second major chemical company.

Scientific Design Company, Inc., President and CEO, 1988 - 2000

Full profit and loss responsibility, reporting to the Managing Director of Linde Engineering / Contracting division of Linde AG.
Licensing process technologies to the international chemical industries and furnishing catalysts for use in those technologies.
Lead the company's acquisition efforts.

Chem Systems, Inc., Director, Process Evaluation/Research Planning, White Plains, NY 1987 - 1988

Profit and loss responsibility for and technical oversight of this large multiclient service.
Arranged and chaired three international technical seminars per year.

Halcon Scientific Design Group, Inc., Montvale, NJ, and New York 1960 - 1987

President, 1985 - 1987

Responsible for leadership and profit and loss for this 600-person, diversified subsidiary of Texas Eastern.
Reduction of operating losses, re-organization of the group, relocation of the group to New Jersey, refocusing research objectives and improving research and development productivity.

Vice President, Technology, 1980 - 1985

Responsible for overseeing the development of new technologies included those needed to support the parent Texas Eastern Corporation after its acquisition of Halcon SD.
Direct oxidation of hydrogen to hydrogen peroxide, non-noble metal carbonylation of methanol to acetic acid, destruction of PCBs and hydrogenation of maleic anhydride to 1-4, butanediol.

Vice President, Development, 1977 - 1980

Supervised the development of catalyst technologies and acted as the technical liaison with Arco Chemical and Oxirane in the startup of a plant utilizing novel Halcon acetoxylation technology to produce ethylene glycol from ethylene and oxygen.

Catalyst Development Corporation, VP and General Manager, 1975 - 1977

Full profit and loss responsibility for the catalyst research and development manufacturing and sales subsidiary of Halcon SD.
Catalysts included SynDox ethylene oxide catalyst, SynDan maleic anhydride ex benzene catalyst, SynDane maleic anhydride ex n-butane catalyst, SynDol alcohol dehydration catalyst and sale of several third party catalysts.

Development Department, 1960 - 1975

Holding several technical positions, including responsibility for the development function in support of the novel acetoxylation technology for ethylene glycol from ethylene.
Responsible for setting the design basis for new plants utilizing SD's newly commercialized oxygen-based EO process and revamps of client's air-based process plants to oxygen.
Overseeing the ethylene oxide catalyst and process research and development efforts, including managing the testing and commercialization of new generations of EO catalysts, and led the development and commercialization of SD's oxygen-based process.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

AIChE Management Conferences

Socie'te' de Chimie Industrielle, American Section