Frank Bates
Doug Cameron
Glenn Fredrickson
Marc Hillmyer
Paul Koch
Leo Manzer
Robert Pangborn

Frank S. Bates is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, and Head of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1976, and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 and 1982. Between 1982 and 1989 Dr. Bates was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and then joined the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Professor in 1991 and named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in 1996. Dr. Bates conducts research on a range of topics related to polymers, with a particular focus on the thermodynamics and dynamics of block copolymers and blends. In 1988 Bates was named a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, in 1989 he received the Dillon Medal and in 1997 the Polymer Physics Prize, both from the American Physical Society where he is a Fellow. He won the 2004 David Turnbull Lectureship Award from the Materials Research Society. In 2002 Dr. Bates was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and in 2005 he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Doug Cameron is a managing director and chief science advisor at Piper Jaffray. Dr. Cameron formerly served as the Chief Scientific Officer of Khosla Ventures and Interim Chief Executive Officer and Directror at Segetis. From 1986 to 1998, Dr. Cameron was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he established a research program in the areas of metabolic engineering and fermentation technology and did pioneering work on the microbial production of 1,3-propanediol and 3-hydroxypropionic acid. In 1996, he was a guest professor at the Institute of Biotechnology at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1998, Dr. Cameron moved to Cargill, Inc. in Minneapolis, MN where he built the Cargill Biotechnology Development Center and led biotechnology research until 2006. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is on the managing board of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), the board of directors of the Biobusiness Alliance of Minnesota and the outside advisory board of the Iowa Center for Biocatalysis and Bioprocessing. Dr. Cameron is on the editorial board of the journal, Metabolic Engineering. He is also a consulting professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Cameron received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Duke University and his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Glenn H. Fredrickson is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Mitsubishi Chemical Endowed Chair in Functional Materials. He serves as Director of the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM), Director of UCSB's Complex Fluids Design Consortium (CFDC), and Associate Director of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL). Dr. Fredrickson obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1984 and subsequently joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was named Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1989. In 1990 he moved to the UCSB, joining the faculties of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Departments. He served as Chair of Chemical Engineering from 1998 to 2001 and in 2001 founded the MC-CAM at UCSB. Professor Fredrickson has over 200 publications, 10 patents published or pending, and a long-standing interest in the self-assembly principles and structure-property relations of polymeric materials. His research is primarily theoretical and computational and has been most recently focused on developing novel field-based computer simulation strategies to assist the design of multi-component plastics and polymer solution formulations. Honors include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Fellowship, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Dillon Medal and Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellowship in the APS, the Alpha Chi Sigma Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and election to the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Fredrickson is a consultant to numerous companies and law firms and currently serves as Corporate Science and Technology Advisor to the Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

Marc Hillmyer is Elmore H Northey Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Hillmyer received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1989 from the University of Florida where he worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the laboratory of Professor Kenneth Wagener on Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization. He then moved to the California Institute of Technology as a chemistry graduate student and joined Professor Robert Grubbs' research group where he continued his work on metathesis. At Caltech he focused on the preparation of functionalized polymers by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization using newly developed ruthenium metathesis catalysts. Upon graduating with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech in 1994, Marc moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral research associate in the group of Professor Frank Bates. With Professor Bates, Marc worked on a variety of research projects centered on the synthesis and self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers. In 1997 Marc moved to the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota. Principle research efforts in his group include the synthesis, characterization, and applications of nanoporous materials from ordered block copolymer precursors, the development of new renewable resource polymers, and the synthesis of multicomponent block copolymers and their self-assembly in dilute solution. He has published over 125 papers and holds 7 patents. Since staring in Chemistry at Minnesota, Marc has received several awards and honors including a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

Paul E. Koch is an associate professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received the B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Detroit and the Ph.D. in Plastics Engineering in 1996 from the University of Massachusetts - Lowell. Dr. Koch received the Special Achievement Award from the Northwest Pennsylvania Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers in recognition of the establishment of a student section for the organization in 1988. He was named the Man of the Year for the Northwest Pennsylvania Chapter of Society of Plastics Engineers in December 1991. He was granted the first SPE Certification for Writing Certification Exam in 1998. Dr. Koch is a member of the Pyrotechnic Guild International, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and the Society of Plastics Engineers. Dr. Koch came to Penn State Behrend after working for Standard Oil Company's Research Center and the Energy Conversion Devices Department. He also worked at Associated Enterprises/3M and Avery International's Fasson Division. Dr. Koch presently serves as the director of the Plastics Service Network, a consulting company which he founded in addition to his teaching responsibilities.

Leo Manzer is the President of Catalytic Insights LLC, which he founded to provide expertise in problems related to catalytic science and engineering. Before Catalytic Insights, Dr. Manzer had a long and illustrious career at DuPont, where he founded and directed the company's Corporate Catalysis Center. In this position, he oversaw research programs in homogeneous, heterogeneous, and enzyme catalysis. During his tenure at DuPont, he was very active in the field of catalytic conversion of biomass to fuels and chemicals. He achieved the company's highest level of professional recognition for scientists and was named a DuPont Fellow. He is the author of over 90 publications and the holder of over 100 U.S. patents. He has also received numerous awards, including the Eugene J. Houdry Award in applied catalysis and three National Awards from the American Chemical Society. Dr. Manzer received his doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of Western Ontario.

Robert J. Pangborn is the founder of Pangborn Associates, LLC, which advises pre-IPO companies in the chemical, materials, and energy industries. Past and current clients include Diversa, Materia, CSP Technologies, Metabolix and Genomatica. Dr. Pangborn has also served as a senior advisor to Cargill's Industrial BioProducts Division, and played a key role in helping to develop and implement strategy for this key corporate growth initiative. From 1976 to 1998, Dr. Pangborn was employed at Dow Chemical in a variety of R&D and business leadership roles, rising to the post of Vice President of Central Research and Development (1993-1998). At Dow, Dr. Pangborn managed over 400 people and a budget of $100 million. Programs in his organization varied from advanced materials development for electronics and fuel cells to computer modeling and catalyst development. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth, attended Harvard Business School, and was an officer in the U. S. Marine Corps.

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