Intellex Acquires Expert by Big Village

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Expert Details

Cyanoacrylate Chemistry: Basic Research to Production

ID: 723815 Georgia, USA

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Expert's principal expertise is in adhesive systems based on cyanoacrylate monomers. These areas involve thickeners, toughening agents, adhesion promoters, accelerators, copolymer systems for industrial and medical applications. Anaerobic adhesives used in threadlocking, metal bonding, rubber bonding, and various other substrates.

Expert has total and complete knowledge of cyanoacrylate chemistry. This includes design, fabrication, and construction of a manufacturing operation to produce these materials. Recently completed one of these facilities for the production of a medical device formula for surgical and topical consumer uses. Capabilities to produce all known cyanoacrylate monomers from lab scale to production. His expertise and industry recognition led to his most recent relocation to the Employer venture. He continues to focus in biomedical applications of cyanoacrylates and other adhesives. The efforts in his involvement at Spartan were such that the operation was maintained for 6 years with minimal investor contribution. Spartan was infused with venture funding and is now Adhezion Biomedical under new management. Three new marketed products have now come out as the result of expert's 6 years of effort.

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 1984 Degree: MS Subject: Polymer science Institution: U Conn
Year: 1980 Degree: MS Subject: Organic chemistry Institution: St Joseph College
Year: 1976 Degree: BS Subject: Chemistry Institution: U of Hartford

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2006 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: VP, Material R&D Department:
Responsibilities:
He is currently responsible for activities in R&D, scaleup and manufacturing of medical devices
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2000 to 2006 Employer: Spartan Medical Title: President Department:
Responsibilities:
He was a co-founder of a medical device company responsible for activities in R&D, scaleup and manufacturing of medical adhesives.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1990 to Present Employer: Undisclosed Title: President Department:
Responsibilities:
He is the current principal in the overall operations of a small company that manufactures and performs research in cyanoacrylate adhesives.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1976 to 1986 Employer: Loctite Corp/Henkel Title: Director of Engineering Department:
Responsibilities:
He was responsible for research, development and engineering of adhesives for medical, industrial, and military applications.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 1969 to 1976 Employer: Monsanto Chemical Co. Title: Research Technician Department: R&D
Responsibilities:
He was responsible for laboratory synthesis of emulsion polymers and suspesnion polymers with followup characterization via extrusions, injection molding and physical testing.

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
American Chemical Society
Publications and Patents Summary
He has a number of issued patents and also has 3 patents pending on cyanoacrylate technology.

Additional Experience

Expert Witness Experience
Expert in analytical methodolgies involving failure of a product attributed to adhesive performance. He has provided expert opinion on failure cause to legal professionals and participated as an expert witness in a state court.
Vendor Selection
He was instrumental in sourcing raw materials for the production of the cyanoacrylates due to his prior activities at AZ Laboratories. The principal ingredient was sourced at one half the cost form other known vendors and the patented process components were also identified and sourced through his contacts from AZ.
Other Relevant Experience
Total experience in all aspects of producing cyanoacrylate adhesives. As the co-founder of Spartan Medical Products, LLC, he contributed the production facilities of his other cyanoacrylate operation to focus on the synthesis of long chain cyanoacrylte monomers, principally octyl cyanoacrylate. The relocation of the facility incorporated new methodologies to improve and refine the synthetic capabilities to infuse cost reductions and production efficiency. He was the principal contributor to the patents, technology, construction and all the refinements at the Spartan entity. These skills include, vacuum system design, reactor design/modification, condensor design, refrigeration cooling systems. He has hands-on capabilities with toolroom machinery, TIG and MIG welding, and EPA refrigeration certification . He was the driving force in the infrastructure development, maintenance and modifications as necessitated due to limited funding in the Spartan venture.

Fields of Expertise

adhesive formulation, adhesive manufacturing, toolroom, thermoplastic material selection, fine chemical production, adhesive curing, rubber selection, fine organic synthesis, adhesion science, polymer selection for chemical compatibility, adhesive application machine, adhesive dispensing equipment, adhesion promoter, adhesive applicator equipment, adhesive application process, adhesive formulation technology, adhesive application, adhesive selection, adhesive material, adhesive failure, polymer selection, adhesive testing

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