Our Team
H.E. The HON., DR. THOMAS A. CELLUCCI, MBA: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tom was a highly respected executive in the United States Government with career accomplishments that are far-reaching and significant.
Tom continues to assist his 5th President of the United Sates, as well as the 8th Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff. He also was responsible for Special Programs in the United States Government for many years. See below some examples of his accomplishments and activities:
• Tom was appointed the first Director of the Research & Development (R&D) Group at the US Department of Homeland Security with multi-billion dollars of assets responsibility and leadership of over 4300 people, Tom is the most recognized expert in the practical commercialization of new and emerging technologies in both the Private and Public Sectors (the first Chief Commercialization Officer in the US Federal Government’s Executive Branch).
• The US Department of Homeland Security’s first Chief Commercialization Officer (accepted a non-political five-year appointment) having established the Department’s First Commercialization Office. Developed and implemented unique, far-reaching programs to leverage the resources of the Private Sector to rapidly develop products and services for DHS and its ancillary markets such as the First Responder community with more than $3.6 Billion offered to DHS from the Private Sector in less one year.
• Re-engineered the US Department of Homeland Security’s First Responder Requirements Development Framework for all US First Responders (federal, state, local and tribal).
• First Federal Official invited to join the Council on Competitiveness (see www.compete.org)
• Member of the Manufacturing Technologies Working Group of the Committee on Science and Technology for the Executive Office of the President and Science & Technology Official on the US Department of Homeland Security’s Policy Working Group.
• Became the youngest member of the American National Standard Institute’s Committee chartered to write the first standard on the Safe Use of Lasers in Educational Institutions (ANSI Standard Z136.5).
• Frequently provides seminars, speeches and presentations at both business and/or high technology institutions like Harvard, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Texas A&M, Princeton, where he has held the rank of Professor and/or Endowed Chair.
• Directly responsible for briefing President Clinton and President George W. Bush that resulted in the creation of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) passed by Congress with an initial $3.9 billion budget.
• Established Zyvex as one of the world’s leading nanotech firms with exceptional growth and financial performance, growing sales over 197% in less than three years. Developed and implemented Zyvex’s transition from a technology-push to a market-driven enterprise widely recognized in both business and technical circles and through several worldwide business alliances.
• Forbes recently wrote an article implying he was the “Father of Nanotechnology” in the US— recognized as the force behind the NNI—National Nanotechnology Initiative in which he spearheaded the raising of about $3.9 B from Congress before he was in government service.
• Recognized as a successful serial entrepreneur/investor, as well as an active philanthropist.
EDUCATION: • PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, 3.95/4.00 (1984) • MBA, Strategic Management and Marketing, Rutgers University; Camden, New Jersey, 3.83/4.00 (1991) • BS Chemistry, Fordham University; Bronx, New York, 3.50/4.00 (1980) • Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania – Executive Education Program (1996) • Harvard Business School – Executive Management Program (2002) • MIT Sloan School of Business – Executive New Product Development Program (2002) • Kellogg School of Management – Executive Mergers and Acquisitions Program (2002)
Mr. Lynn Mattice, Chief Risk Officer/Special Advisor to the Chairman and CEO
Mr. Mattice is Managing Director of Mattice & Associates LLC, a management consulting firm focused in the fields of enterprise risk management, business intelligence programs, information asset protection (including intellectual property, trade secrets, brand protection & anti-counterfeiting), physical & cyber security, resiliency, compliance, management systems, and program evaluations (www.matticeassociates.com ). He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Risk Management; Distinguished Fellow at the Ponemon Institute; a member of the Leadership Council for the National Small Business Association; and, Senior Fellow Emeritus at Auburn University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security. Mr. Mattice is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors for the National Intellectual Property Law Institute and served on their Board of Directors for over 25 years. One of the highlights of his tenure was participating in the drafting of the National Economic Espionage Act and National Trade Secrets Act which was unanimously passed by both the House and Senate in 1996. He has an exceptionally strong track record serving over 35 years as a senior executive for three major U.S. based global corporations (Northrop, Whirlpool and Boston Scientific) and one mid-cap company (Wescom, Inc.), all of which are in dramatically different business sectors. His corporate experience base traverses the defense & intelligence, electronics, life sciences, consumer products and service industries. Mr. Mattice’s previous corporate role as Corporate Vice President at Boston Scientific included responsibility for enterprise risk management, global security, cyber security, information asset protection, anti-counterfeiting & brand protection, resiliency, business practices violation reviews, business risk intelligence and corporate aviation. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors from both the government and private sector for his numerous contributions to the security & intelligence professions. Mr. Mattice was appointed as one of the key industry representatives on the National Industrial Security Program Presidential Task Force, which was established through a Presidential Decision Directive by President George H.W. Bush; the task force’s members also included the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the CIA. He was also appointed to the Inaugural Advisory Board for the National Counterintelligence Center (which is now known as the National Counterintelligence and Security Center). Mr. Mattice was appointed by Secretary of State Warren Christopher to serve as a member of the Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council, where he remained as a Senior Advisor for 20 years. He was appointed by INTERPOL Secretary General to serve for several years as a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Congress on Combatting Counterfeiting and Piracy, which was established jointly by INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization. He served three terms on the Board of Directors for the International Security Management Association, where he remains a life member, and spent several years as a member of ASIS- International’s Standards and Guidelines Commission. Additionally, he was one of the founders and charter member of the Inaugural Board of Directors for the International NGO Safety & Security Association. Mr. Mattice has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program and the FBI’s National Executive Institute. He has authored numerous articles addressing a broad range of management, leadership and enterprise risk topics, as well as being a contributing author to several books addressing enterprise risks. Mr. Mattice is board certified in risk and information systems controls (CRISC) and has been recognized as an expert witness at both the state and federal court level. Mattice & Associates LLC is a Certified Small Business by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Chuck Brooks: Special Assistant to the Chairman’s Office
Chuck Brooks is a globally recognized thought leader and evangelist for Cybersecurity. LinkedIn named Chuck as one of “The Top 5 Tech People to Follow on LinkedIn.” He was named by Thompson Reuters as a “Top 50 Global Influencer in Risk, Compliance,” and by IFSEC as the “#2 Global Cybersecurity Influencer.” He is also a Cybersecurity Expert for “The Network” at the Washington Post, Visiting Editor at Homeland Security Today, and a Contributor to FORBES. He has also been featured author in technology and cybersecurity blogs by IBM, AT&T, Cylance, and many others. In government, Chuck has received two senior Presidential appointments. Under President George W. Bush Chuck was appointed to The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as the first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. He also was appointed as Special Assistant to the Director of Voice of America under President Reagan. He served as a top Advisor to the late Senator Arlen Specter on Capitol Hill covering security and technology issues on Capitol Hill. In local government he also worked as an Auxiliary Police officer for Arlington, Virginia. In industry, Chuck has served in senior executive roles for General Dynamics as the Principal Market Growth Strategist for Cyber Systems, at Xerox as Vice President & Client Executive for Homeland Security, for Rapiscan and Vice President of R & D, for SRA as Vice President of Government Relations, and for Sutherland as Vice President of Marketing and Government Relations.
In academia, Chuck is Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University’s Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs where he teaches courses on risk management, homeland security, and cybersecurity. He was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University where he taught a graduate course on homeland security for two years. He has an MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, a BA in Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law.
In media, Chuck is the featured Homeland Security contributor for Federal Times, featured cybersecurity contributor for High Performance Counsel on cybersecurity, and an advisor and contributor to Cognitive World, a leading publication on artificial intelligence. He has also appeared in Forbes and Huffington Post and has published more than 180 articles and blogs on cybersecurity, homeland security and technology issues. He has 59,000 followers on LinkedIn and runs a dozen LI groups, including the two largest in homeland security.
Chuck’s professional industry affiliations include being a member of the August USA Chapter of EC-Council Global Advisory Board for TVM (Threat and Vulnerability Management), EC-Council is the world's largest body in cybersecurity training and certifications. He is on the MIT Technology Review Advisory Global Panel, a member of The AFCEA Cybersecurity Committee, and as member of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Working Group. Some of Chuck’s other activities include being a Subject Matter Expert to The Homeland Defense and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC), a Department of Defense (DoD) sponsored organization through the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), as a featured presenter at USTRANSCOM on cybersecurity threats to transportation, as a featured presenter to the FBI and the National Academy of Sciences on Life Sciences Cybersecurity. He is an Advisory Board Member for The Center for Advancing Innovation, the Quantum Security Alliance, and a member of the Cyber Avengers, a group that promotes safe Cyber-hygiene. Chuck was also appointed as a Technology Partner Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Jeffrey R. Johnson: Advisor to Chairman & CEO
Jeffrey R. Johnson recently retired as the Associate Administrator for the Office of Defense Nuclear Security and Chief of Defense Nuclear Security for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). In this role, he was responsible for the development and implementation of security programs for the Administration, including the protection, control, and accounting of special nuclear materials, for the physical and cyber security of all NNSA facilities, and the protection of all NNSA personnel.
Jeff spent over 26 years in the Marine Corps, just over 20 of them on active duty. During his Marine Corps career he served in a variety of security and law enforcement billets. From 2002 to 2007, he was assigned as the Marine Corps Security Force liaison to the Navy Staff. In that position, he was responsible for nuclear weapons security policy, security evaluations of Navy nuclear weapons facilities, and provided policy while coordinating security with Marine Corps security force units to protect Navy nuclear vessels during refueling and defueling operations. As a Marine, Jeff completed the Federal of Bureau Investigation’s (FBI) Basic SWAT Course, the Army Anti-terrorism Instructor School, and the Drug Enforcement Agency Raid Instructors course. After he retired, Jeff continued to support the Marine Corps as a civilian and was tasked with recruiting, hiring and training over 1400 Marine Corps civilian police officers across the Marine Corps.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Ohio State University and he received his Master’s Degree in Security and Safety Leadership from George Washington University. Jeff is a fellow from Harvard’s School of Government Senior Executive Fellowship and Senior Executives in National and International Security, a graduate of the FBI’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Seminar 59 and the FBI National Executive Institute session XXXVI. He is also a deacon in the Archdiocese of Washington and is married to the former Jane Hassenpflug and has two adult children, Rachel and Sean.
R&D
Peter J. Delfyett: Chief Principal Investigator
UCF Trustee Chair UCF Distinguished Professor Pegasus Professor, Optics & Photonics Electrical & Computer Engineering Physics; Director, Townes Laser Institute CREOL A231 ULTRAFAST PHOTONICS
Peter Delfyett received the B.E.(E.E.) degree from The City College of New York in 1981, the M.S. degree in EE from The University of Rochester in 1983, the M. Phil and Ph.D. degrees from The Graduate School & University Center of the City University of New York in 1987 and 1988, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was focused on developing and utilizing a real time ultrafast spectroscopic probe to study molecular and phonon dynamics in condensed matter using both supercontinuum and optical phase conjugation techniques.
After obtaining the Ph.D. degree, he joined Bell Communication Research as a Member of the Technical Staff, where he concentrated his efforts towards generating ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks. Some of his technical accomplishments were the development of the world’s fastest, most powerful modelocked semiconductor laser diode, the demonstration of an optically distributed clocking network for high speed digital switches and supercomputer applications, and the first observation of the optical nonlinearity induced by the cooling of highly excited electron-hole pairs in semiconductor optical amplifiers. While at Bellcore, Dr. Delfyett received numerous awards for his technical achievements in these areas, including the Bellcore Synergy Award and the Bellcore Award of Appreciation.
Dr. Delfyett joined the faculty at the College of Optics & Photonics and the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida in 1993, and currently holds the positions of Director – Townes Laser Institute, Pegasus Professor and University Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics. His research contributions have been extensive, spanning the underlying physics, device development, and application of semiconductor based mode-locked laser diodes.
Dr. Delfyett served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2001-2006), an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, and was Executive Editor of IEEE LEOS Newsletter (1995- 2000). He has served on the Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America, the Board of Governors of IEEE LEOS (Photonics Society), and served as Chair of the Division of Laser Science of APS (2014-2018). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Optical Society of America, Fellow of IEEE Photonics Society, Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists, Fellow of SPIE, and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and AAAS. Dr. Delfyett has been awarded the 1992 YMCA New Jersey Black Achievement Award, the 1993 National Black Engineer of the Year Award – Most Promising Engineer, the University Distinguished Research Award ’99, and highlighted in Design News’ “Engineering Achievement Awards”. In addition, Dr. Delfyett has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Faculty Fellow Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is awarded to the Nation’s top 20 young scientists. Dr. Delfyett has been highlighted on ‘C-SPAN’, “mainstreekweek.com” and in “Career Encounters”, a PBS Special on technical careers in the optics and photonics field. Dr. Delfyett was awarded the 1999 University Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award, the 2000 Black Engineer of the Year Award – Outstanding Alumnus Achievement, and the 2000 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. He was awarded the University of Central Florida’s 2001 Pegasus Professor Award which is the highest honor awarded by the University. He is also a Founding Member in NSF’s Scientists and Engineers in the School Program, which is a program to teach 8th graders about the benefits of science, engineering and technology in society. In 2003, Dr. Delfyett received the Technology Innovation Award from the Orlando Economic Development Commission. He was selected as one of the “50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science in 2004” and as a “Science Trailblazer in 2005 and 2006” by Career Communications Group and Science Spectrum Magazine. He was awarded the APS Edward Bouchet Award for his significant scientific contributions in the area of ultrafast optical device physics and semiconductor diode based ultrafast lasers, and for his exemplary and continuing efforts in the career development of underrepresented minorities in science and engineering. Dr. Delfyett has also endeavored to transfer technology to the private sector, and helped to found “Raydiance, Inc.” which is a spin-off company developing high power, ultrafast laser systems, based on Dr. Delfyett’s research, for applications in medicine, defense, material processing, biotech and other key technological markets. Dr. Delfyett was also elected to serve 2 terms as President of the National Society of Black Physicists (2008-2012). He was awarded the 2014 Medalist from the Florida Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contributions scientific research, and to the stimulation of interest and promotion of scientific knowledge, the 2018 Townsend Harris Medal from The City College of New York for his significant contributions in his field, the 2020 IEEE Photonics Society’s William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award “for pioneering contributions to semiconductor diode based ultrafast laser science and technology”, and the 2021 APS Arthur L Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, “for pioneering contributions to the development of ultrafast mode-locked semiconductor diode lasers, including the scientific understanding of the underlying physical processes, and their application in ultra-wide bandwidth optical communications and signal processing. Most recently, he was elected into the National Academy of Engineering. He has over 200 scientific publications in refereed journals, >600 conference proceedings and invited presentations, and 45 US patents.
Awards & Honors • International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow • American Physical Society (APS) Fellow • IEEE Photonics Society Fellow • Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow • 2022 CCNY Engineering Alumni Award – Career Achievement Award – The City College of New York, School of Engineering • 2022 UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award • 2021 UCF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching – College of Optics and Photonics • 2021 UCF Luminary – “For notable accomplishments in research, scholarship and creative activities.” • 2021 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) – Elected Member, “For contributions to development and commercialization of low-noise, high-power ultrafast semiconductor lasers.”2021 Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida (ASEMFL) – “For contributions to development and commercialization of low-noise, high-power ultrafast semiconductor lasers.” • 2021 APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science – “For pioneering contributions to the development of ultrafast mode-locked semiconductor diode lasers, including the scientific understanding of the underlying physical processes, and their application in ultra-wide bandwidth optical communications and signal processing.” • 2020 IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award • 2019 Excellence in Graduate Teaching College Award – College of Optics and Photonics • 2018 Townsend Harris Medalist – The City College of New York of CUNY • 2014 Florida Academy of Science’s 2014 Medalist • 2014 UCF Innovator • 2013 National Academy of Inventors Fellow • 2013 Letter of Appreciation – SPIE • 2013 Faculty Excellence for Mentoring Doctoral Students • 2013 College Research Incentive Award (RIA) • 2012 Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students • 2012 College Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award • 2012 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award • 2011 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award • 2011 APS Edward Bouchet Award • 2010 American Physical Society Edward Bouchet Award • 2010 IEEE Photonic Society Graduate Student Fellowship2010 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering • 2010 Incubic/Milton Chang Travel Award to attend CLEO • 2006 Science Spectrum Trailblazer • 2005 District Advocate for the American Physical Society • 2005 Science Spectrum Outstanding Black Professional in Science • 2003 Technology Innovation Award • 2003 UCF Millionaire’s Club • 2002 Pegasus Professor Award • 2002 UCF Distinguished Research Professor Award • 2002 UCF Millionaire’s Club • 2001 UCF Nguzo Saba Award • 2000 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
Martin C. Richardson: Senior Technology Officer
Pegasus Professor, Optics & Photonics Electrical & Computer Engineering; Northrup Grumman Professor; Founding Director, Townes Laser Institute, LASER PLASMA LABORATORY 7
Martin Richardson graduated from Imperial College, London, in Physics (1964) and gained his Ph.D in Photon Physics from London University in 1967 as the first student to graduate in lasers under the advisement of the late Daniel Bradley. For his thesis he studied the spectral characteristics of laser modes, investigated non-linear optical processes in dense plasmas and developed a new high power dual frequency laser. Although lasers were then still considered ‘a solution looking for a problem’, after the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize to Townes, Prokhorov and Basov for inventing the concept of the laser, many new laser research teams were being created worldwide. Richardson joined one of the first laser groups investigating laser and plasmas in the Division of Gerhardt Herzberg at the National Research Council Laboratories in Ottawa. Mode-locking as a technique for creating ultrashort laser pulses had just been invented, and he was the first to create plasmas in gases by amplified single ultrashort laser pulses. He stayed at NRC until 1979, making contributions to the development of new lasers, including patents on the discharge-pumped CO2 laser that launched the Lumonics corporation, nonlinear optics, mid-IR laser selective dissociation of molecules, the precursor to laser isotope separation, and the development of ultra-fast optical diagnostics. His work on laser-produced plasmas lead to the creation of the first Canadian team focused on laser fusion. Collaborations with the Lebedev Institute resulted in the development of the picosecond streak camera. In 1974 Richardson spent five months in the Soviet Union in the laboratories of Alexandr Prokhorov at the Lebedev Institute.
In 1980 he joined the University of Rochester where he worked for nine years as group leader for laser fusion experiments for the then new 24-beam OMEGA laser system at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He also held an adjunct faculty in the Institute of Optics. While at Rochester he was also involved in x-ray laser and laser-plasma x-ray spectroscopy investigations.
In 1990 he and William Silfvast established the Laser Plasma Laboratory at CREOL, the Center of Research in Electro Optics & Lasers at UCF, developing research programs in ultrafast laser development, laser-plasma studies, EUV/X-ray lithography and microscopy and laser materials processing. These research activities expanded to include femtosecond laser structuring of materials, laser spectroscopy and sensing and high-intensity laser filamentation studies in the atmosphere. In 2003 he was appointed the Northrop Grumman Professor of X-ray Photonics as part of major $24M donation to UCF. He was made a Trustee Chair of the University in 2006 and appointed as the first and founding director of the Townes Laser Institute in 2007.
Professor Richardson has throughout his career taken an intense interest in the education of his students. In Canada he introduced schemes through which students from Canadian universities could study for their Ph.D’s at NRC-Canada. He directs an NSF International REU program, and has initiated an Atlantis program for students to obtain a international MS degree between UCF and the universities of Bordeaux, Jena and Clemson. Some of his students gain co-tutelle Ph.D degrees with the University of Bordeaux. He is particularly interested in advancing science in under-developed countries, and in enabling equal rights for women through science.
Professor Richardson has held visiting scientific positions at the Max Born Institute in Berlin, the Institute for Laser Engineering (ILE) Osaka University, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, and other institutions in Australia, Canada, France, Qatar and the former Soviet Union. He has published over 400 scientific articles in professional scientific journals, and has presented numerous invited and plenary talks. He holds ~ 20 patents, with several pending and has chaired many international conferences including IQEC, ICHSP, and several SPIE meetings. He is a former Associate Editor of JQE, a recipient of the Schardin Medal, and a Fellow of OSA.
Awards & Honors • Fellow of AAAS • American Physical Society (APS) Fellow • International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow • IEEE Photonics Society Fellow • Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow • 2017 Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair2016 Andrew Main Lecture, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta Edmonton • 2016 Invited Speaker, Russian Academy of Sciences, 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Alexandr Prokhorov • 2016 UCF Millionaires Club • 2015 UCF Millionaires Club • 2015 Fulbright-Tocqueville Professorship (2016) • 2015 Fellow, Institute of Physics (IoP), London, U.K • 2014 Jefferson Science Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences at t U.S. State Department • 2014 UCF Millionaires Club • 2014 University Trustee Chair (renewal) • 2014 Research Incentive Award (RIA) • 2014 Jefferson Fellowship • 2013 Docteur Honoris Causa Université de Bordeaux • 2013 UCF Millionaires Club • 2013 SPIE Harold E Edgerton Award • 2013 Harold E. Edgerton Award • 2012 UCF Millionaires Club • 2012 Pegasus Professor Award • 2012 Sustaining Member Canadian Association of Physicists • 2011 UCF Millionaires Club • 2010 UCF Millionaires Club • 2009 UCF Millionaires Club • 2008 UCF Millionaires Club • 2007 UCF Millionaires Club • 2007 Pegasus Professor Award • 2007 Director The Townes Laser Institute • 2006 Office of Research & Commercialization Millionaire’s Club • 2006 UCF Millionaires Club • 2006 University Trustee Chair • 2006 Researcher of the Year • 2006 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant • 2005 UCF Millionaires Club • 2005 Research Incentive Award • 2000 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award • 1998 Professorial Excellence Program (PEP) Award • 1995 IR&D 100 Award • 1990 Fellow, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science • 1976 Schardin Medal, German Physical Society
Mark Banash: Advisor
Mark Banash is President and Chief Scientist at Neotericon LLC, a consultancy specializing in nanoscience, nanomaterials, and nanotechnology. With over three decades of industrial experience, the last two have been spent exclusively in these fields. He was formerly VP-Chief Scientist at Nanocomp Technologies (now Huntsman Chemicals) where he was responsible for the fundamental science of how Nanocomp made their carbon nanomaterial-based sheet and yarns as identifying and proving the links between their unique nanoscale features and the performance of end products. Prior to Nanocomp, he was the director for production and quality for the company's nanomaterial products for Zyvex Corporation, where he managed manufacturing operations and initiated the industry's first supply chain certification process to qualify carbon nanotubes. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Princeton University, an MBA from the University of Maryland University College, and a B.A. with honors in Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Advisory Group on the measurement of nanomaterials and has worked closely with NIOSH in their efforts to develop and deploy nanomaterial health and safety programs.
Professional Affiliations • University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD 2003 - 2012 • Adjunct Faculty, MBA Program, Graduate School • Taught classes on the design, measurement, and improvement of business processes. • ISO Technical Advisory Group, TC 229, Gaithersburg, MD 2005 - Present • ANSI group developing standards for nanomaterials with respect to terminology, nomenclature, metrology, instrumentation, and science-based health, safety, and environmental practices.
Patents / Intellectual Property “Intumescent Nanostructured Materials and Methods of Manufacturing Same”, Co-inventors: Peter Antoinette, Mark Schauer, Brian White, Meghann White, and David Gailus, US Patent 11279836, Granted: March 22, 2022 “Systems and Methods for Coloring Nanofibrous Materials”, Co-inventors: Peter L. Antoinette and Ashley Hart, US Patent 10920368, Granted: February 16, 2022 “Exfoliating-dispersing agents for nanotubes, bundles and fibers”, Co-inventors: Joseph E. Johnson and Paul R. Jarosz, US Patent 9718691, Granted: August 1, 2017 “Systems and Methods for Formation of Extended Length Nanostructures on Nanofilament Support”, US Patent Application 20160168689, Publication date: June 16, 2016 “TiO2 Compounds Obtained from a High Silica Content Ore”, Co-inventors: Inventors: Ling Zhou, Thomas Messer, and Fu-Chu Wen, US Patent 6713038, Granted: March 30, 2004 “Gradient index glasses and sol-gel method for their preparation”, Co-inventors: J. Brian Caldwell, Tessie M. Che, Robert M. Mininni, and Victor N. Warden, US Patent 5182236, Granted: January 26, 1993 U.S. provisional filing on nanomaterial synthesis and catalyst design. Information available upon request. U. S. Provisional filing on carbon nanomaterial-based components for electrodes in battery and exchange membrane applications. Information available upon request.
Education • University of Maryland University College, Master of Business Administration Adelphi, MD • Princeton University; Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry Princeton, NJ • University of Pennsylvania; Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry (Honors) with Minors in English and Mathematics, Philadelphia, PA
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