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Academe UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (UA) Tucson Douglas A. Loy has left his position as leader of the Nanomaterials & Polymer Synthesis Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory to become an associate pro fessor in UA's materials science and engi neering department, with a joint appoint ment in the chemistry department. He has also served on the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque. Loy earned a B.S. in chemistry from UA; an M.S. in chemistry from Northern Arizona University Flagstaff; and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Califor nia, Irvine. UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON Fredericksburg Va. Janet A. Asper will join the department of chemistry this fall as an assistant pro fessor teaching general and organic chem istry Her primary research interest is the development of novel synthetic routes for bioorganic molecules. Asper received a B.S. in biochemistry and biological sciences from Ohio University and a Ph.D. in or ganic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh. Leanna C. Giancarlo has received tenure and has been promoted to associate pro fessor of chemistry. She joined the de partment of chemistry in the fall of 1999. Giancarlo's primary research interests in clude surface chemistry, spectroscopic studies of molecular interactions, and scan ning probe microscopy She holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania.
Business ARKEMA Philadelphia Jay Reyher has been promoted from busi ness director for thio intermediates to re gional group presi dent of technical polymers and world 72
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wide general manager for fluoropolymers. Reyher holds a B.S. in chemical engineer ing from the University of Dayton, in Ohio, and an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix, King of Prussia, Pa. Rich Rowe has been promoted to group president of additives worldwide. Previ ously, he served as Arkema's group pres ident for organic peroxides worldwide. Before he came to Arkemain 1999 from Ato Findley he held sales and marketing roles in the organic resins division at Her cules. Rowe has a B.S. in chemistry from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. Frank Tortorici has been promoted to group president of organic peroxides worldwide. Previous ly, Tortorici served as Arkema's regional group president in N o r t h America for technical polymers, as well as worldwide general manager for fluoropolymers. He came to Arkema in 1985 and holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Uni versity of Houston.
vice president of purchasing for Ashland Inc. Potts joined Ash land in 1996 and most recendy served as vice president of Ashland Specialty Chemical and general manager ofSP&A. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Ashland University, in Ohio. BASF CORP. Florham Park, N.J. Folker Ruchatz has been appointed di rector ofpharma solutions for BASF Corp., the North American affiliate of BASF AG. Among his previous positions at BASF Corp. were R&D lab manager for the phar ma excipients group and global product manager for pharma excipients. Ruchatz earned an undergraduate degree in phar macy and a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical tech nology from Christian Albrechts Univer sity, Kiel, Germany Fred P. Rullo has been named director of sales for the intermediates business group. Rullo has worked at Noveon as director of thermoplastic polyurethane sales in North America, and he has held business man agement and sales positions at Freedom Chemical and ICI Paints.
ASHLAND INC. Covington, Ky.
CHEMTURA Middlebury, Conn.
Two people have been named to the se nior management team. Both will be based in Dublin, Ohio.
Frank Schlegel, who has been North American business director for petroleum additives for the past five years, has been promoted to global business director for rubber chemicals. Since starting at Chemtura (formerly Crompton) in 1975, Schlegel has worked in R&D, manufacturing, chem ical and polymer sales, and global market ing. He has a B.S. in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, and an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven, in Connecticut.
Marcello Boldrini has been promoted from vice president of marketing and bus iness development for Ashland Special ty Chemical to vice president of Ashland Specialty Chemical and general manager of Specialty Polymers &Adhesives(SP&A). He joined Ashland in 1997. Boldrini holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Milan, in Italy, and an M.B.A. from SDABocconi University, in Milan. Elizabeth (Liz) Potts has been appointed
Dennis Synnott has been promoted to commercial director for the Americas, leading a team of regional sales represen tatives for rubber chemicals, Royalene eth ylene propylene diene monomer, andTrilene EPDM. Synnott's 18-year career with the company includes positions as techni cal service scientist, international market ing specialist, Royalene EPDM marketing WWW.CEN-0NLINE.ORG
manager, and sales executive for global tire accounts. Steve Tranguch has been promoted to global business director for Royalene EPDM. During his 25 years with the com pany, he has held such positions as Euro pean business director for urethanes and global marketing director for petroleum additives, rubber chemicals, and EPDM. Tranguch holds a B.S. in chemistry from King's College London and an M.B.A. from Kent State University, in Ohio. Cori Wlasuk has been promoted to the newly created position of inside sales rep resentative for Royalene EPDM and rub ber chemicals. She is a 10-year veteran of sales administration in these businesses at Chemtura. OTHER COMPANIES
Jason C. Brady has joined thefinechem icals division of Kaneka America, New York City, as manager of marketing and development for the U.S. market. Brady was previously a senior scientist and busi ness development manager at Millennium Cell. He obtained a B.S. in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleve land, and a doctorate in organometallic chemistry from the University of Califor nia, Irvine. Gary L. Crocker has been elected chair man of the board at Merrimack Pharma ceuticals, Cambridge, Mass. Crocker has more than 25 years' experience funding, growing, and leading companies in the biotechnology and medical device indus tries. He was the founder and president of Research Medical and a founding director and original investor in TheraTech. Cur rently, Crocker serves as CEO and chair man ofAnzenBio and president of Crock er Ventures. Lou Gayo has started at Frutarom USA, North Bergen, N.J., as vice president of operations. He was most recently North American manufacturing asset director at Cognis. Gayo has a B.S. in chemical engi neering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University Ted C. Germ roth has been named the first senior technology fellow at Eastman Chemical, Kingsport, Tenn. Germroth, who celebrated his 25th anniversary with Eastman in September, has a long history of accomplishments in technology and in WWW.CEN-0NLINE.ORG
novation at Eastman. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from the College ofWilliam & Mary Williamsburg, Va., and a doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry from the Uni versity of California, Berkeley Alexander R. Giaquinto has joinedTunnell Consulting, King of Prussia, Pa., as vice president and as a senior adviser. For merly, he worked as senior vice president of worldwide regulatory affairs at Scher ing-Plough Research Institute and senior vice president of global compliance at Schering-Plough Corp. Gianquinto holds a Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from the Uni versity of Connecticut, Storrs, and a B.S. in pharmacy from St. John's University Col lege of Pharmacy, Jamaica, N.Y.
chemistry and a Ph.D. in immunology. Achim Noack has been promoted from head of Bayer Technology Services Amer icas to managing director of Bayer Tech nology Services GmbH, Leverkusen, Ger many. Since joining Bayer AG in 1986, Noack has worked in Germany and the U.S. in many positions, including chief technology officer ofBayer Corp. and head of corporate engineering. He holds an M.S. in chemical engineering from the Univer sity of Dortmund, in Germany Lawrence Olanoff, vice president and head of R&D at Forest Laboratories since October 1995, has left that position to be come president, CEO, and board member of Celsion, Columbia, Md. Prior to join ing Forest Labs, Olanoff worked at Sandoz Pharmaceutical and Upjohn Co. He received a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.
David Godke has been appointed market manager for the food ingredient division at Kaltron-Pettibone, a Chicago-based spe cialty chemical distributor. He comes from Ingredients Resourcing, where he was re sponsible for newproduct development for specialty ingredients. Godke holds a B.S. Thomas J. Webster has been named ed in biology and an M.S. in biochemistry from itor-in-chief of the new International Jour nal ofNanomedicine, published by Dove Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Medical Press, Auck land, New Zealand. Guy Malchi has been appointed president Last year, he was proof Optimata, a developer of predictive moted to associate biosimulation technologies for drug de professor at Purdue velopment based in Ramat Gan, Israel. University's Weldon Malchi previously served as founder and School of Biomedical head of Tefen's European life sciences prac Engineering. Webster tice. He graduated with a B.S. in industri received a B.S. in al engineering from Israel's Tel Aviv Uni chemical engineering versity and an executive M.B.A. from from the University London Business School. of Pittsburgh and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mark F. McDonald has started as chief op biomedical engineering from Rensselaer erating officer at CombiSep, Ames, Iowa. Polytechnic Institute, Troy N.Y Previously president of Rheodyne, he brings more than 25 years' experience in the analytical scientific and technical in strumentation market. McDonald holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry and SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES an honorary doctor of science degree from Albuquerque Missouri Western State College. Thomas 0. Hunter, previously Sandia's Robert S. Negm has been appointed vice senior vice president for defense programs, president of business development at has started as president of Sandia Corp. Madison, Wis.-based GenTel BioSur- and director of Sandia National Labora faces, a privately held biotechnology tories. He joined Sandia in 1967 From 1995 spin-off of the University of Wisconsin, to 1999, Hunter served as vice president Madison. Negm comes to GenTel from of Sandia's California site and leader of San Whatman Schleicher & Schuell Bio- dia's nonproliferation programs. He re Science, where he served as director of ceived a Ph.D in nuclear engineering from business development. He has also worked the University ofWisconsin, Madison. as a program director at the National Can cer Institute. He attended the University This section is compiled by Deanna Miller. of New Hampshire, Durham, where he Announcements of promotions and new earned a B.S. in microbiology and bio hires may be sent to
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