International Markets for Specialty and Fine Chemicals and Technology (1147)
Expertise
Senior executive with broad international experience, including over 25 years in the chemical and related industries focused on technology assessment, global management and commercial development. Demonstrated strengths include:
Fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and additives for plastics
Commercial development
Strategic planning
Technology focusing and transfer
International business management
Cross-cultural Development
Experience
1997 - Present INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT
2000 - 2003 Ozark Fluorine Specialties, Philadelphia, U.S.A., Director of Business Development.
Responsible for the strategic development of the Fluorine Specialties business, including strategic planning, marketing, product licensing, joint ventures, new business development and technology acquisition.
1981 - 2000 ELF ATOCHEM GROUP
1996 - 2000 Elf Atochem N.A., Philadelphia, U.S.A., General Manager
Managed the worldwide Inorganic Fluorine Specialties business, including P&L responsibility, marketing, product licensing, joint ventures, technology acquisition prior to and during the divestiture process.
1995 - 1996 Elf Atochem Agri, S.A., Plaisir, France, Business Manager
Responsible for the development and international expansion of pre-harvest products.
1993 - 1995 Akishima Chemical Industries, Tokyo, Japan, Director of Technology
Responsible for worldwide technology transfer of plastic additive products and their commercial development within Elf Atochem Japan.
1989 - 1993 Bio and Fine Division (Industrial Specialties), CECA, S.A., Paris, France, Department Head
Directed European operations with P&L responsibility, involving over 180 employees.
1981 - 1989 M&T Chemicals, New Jersey, Market Manager: Business management:
Responsible for several product lines of the North American subsidiary including Fine Chemicals, Plastic Additives and Industrial Products.
1977 - 1981 FERRO CORPORATION Product Manager International Division, Cleveland
Monitored financial and operational results of six foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures.
Performed technology audits and acquisition analyses.
1970 - 1977 UNIVERSITY / GOVERNMENT Chemistry Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Minnesota.
Sabbatical year at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Control Systems Laboratory) and as Senior Fulbright Professor at Moscow State University (USSR).
Honors & Publications
Co-editor of the "Handbook of Grignard Reagents," Marcel Dekker, 1996.
Board of Directors, Fulbright Alumni Association (1984-86) and Americours (1995-1999).
Consultant to the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and author of "A Survival Manual for Academic Exchange Visitors to the Soviet Union."
Member of the American Chemical Society, Commercial Development and Marketing Association, Bolton Society, Licensing Executives Society, Robert Boyle Society.
Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers.
Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Organometallic Chemistry
Speaks French fluently and Russian conversational