Members

Staff

Dr. Miriam E. John (Chair) is currently an independent consultant, having recently retired from Sandia National Laboratories after 28 years of service. Her last position was Vice President of Sandia’s California Laboratory in Livermore. Dr. John serves as a member of the DoD’s Defense Science Board and the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (for which she chairs the Nuclear Deterrent Transformation Panel). She is a past member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Board on Army Science and Technology, and DOE’s National Commission on Science and Security. Dr. John was appointed a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

In her work with the private sector, Dr. John serves as a member of the Board of Directors of SAIC, and the Strategic Advisory Board of RedX Defense Systems. Her support to the academic community includes chairing the Advisory Board of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering of Tulane University and serving as a member of the External Research Advisory Board of the University of California at Davis. She recently became Vice Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology in January 2008, a body providing independent technical guidance to the state government analogous to the National Academies for the federal government. Dr. John is also a member of the Corporation for Draper Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Weapons Complex Integration Committee.

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Mr. Lee Hammarstrom is Special Assistant for Space and Information Technology to the Director at the Applied Research Laboratory/Pennsylvania State University (ARL/PSU). Previously, he was the first Chief Scientist at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and Chief Scientist at the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. He conceived and was the “systems integrator” for a program that President Reagan recognized in 1987: “. . . having successfully developed one of our nations vital space programs. . . , has contributed to maintaining a strong creditable defense posture for the United States. . . .” He conceived and led the Global Grid/Global Information Grid initiative, which provided key elements of the DoD’s secure worldwide communications networks that successfully supported Operation Iraqi Freedom with more than 40 times the capacity of previous networks. Earlier, Mr. Hammarstrom held various positions at the Naval Research Laboratory in remote sensing, reconnaissance, and intelligence leading to the creation of the Space Systems Engineering Division. He has broad expertise in areas ranging from technology development to the testing and deploying of military and intelligence systems. Mr. Hammarstrom was named an NRO Pioneer in 2002 for his 40 years of contributions to national reconnaissance. He has served on numerous scientific and advisory committees, including as member of the NRC Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups.

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Master Chief James (Jim) L. Herdt retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of master chief petty officer of the Navy and is currently chief executive officer and president of Herdt Consulting Inc. His consulting firm specializes in human resources management, organizational design and behavior, change management, and institutional learning and training. His background is in naval operations both ashore and afloat, including human resources management and training. In his last position he served as the ninth master chief petty officer of the Navy (the senior-most enlisted person in the Navy) where his responsibilities included leading program and policy development for the enlisted force.

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Mr. Kerrie L. Holley is Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Web services and SOA Center of Excellence. He is Chief Architect for Application Innovation Services unit. His expertise includes translating business requirements into process designs for cutting-edge network centric distributed solutions. An IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, Mr. Holley has focused on issues related to modernization of legacy networks and databases to take advantage of web-services based computing technologies. Currently, his interests include web services and e-business solutions, including technical oversight, information technology consulting, adaptive enterprise architecture design, information technology strategy, formation of partnerships among clients and vendors, and managing technical risks. Mr. Holley holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from DePaul University and a J.D. from The DePaul School of Law.

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Dr. Barry M. Horowitz (NAE) is Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. His areas of expertise include the design and development of large-scale networks and information systems; application of security technology to large, network-based commercial systems; and design of large systems which involve coupling private data systems or mission critical support systems with open networks, such as the Internet. Previously he served as a Chairman and Founder of Concept Five Technologies and as President and Chief Executive Officer of the MITRE Corporation and Mitretek Systems. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the National Research Council committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups.

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Vice Admiral James D. Hull retired from the U.S. Coast Guard with the rank of vice admiral and currently serves as Principal Advisor for Homeland Security of the Security Strategies and operations Group at Anteon Corporation. His background includes Coast Guard and interagency operations and capabilities, as well as maritime security and intercept operations. During his Coast guard career, Admiral Hull served as Commander of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic area and the U.S. Maritime Defense Zone Atlantic. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on The Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror.

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Dr. John W. Hutchinson is Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics at Harvard University. A member of the NAS and NAE, Dr. Hutchinson is a theoretician in the area of solid and structural mechanics working broadly on problems arising within elasticity, plasticity, stability, and fracture. His major research contributions have to do with the buckling of shell structures, nonlinear fracture mechanics, and the micro-mechanics of polycrystalline materials and composites. In recent years, however, Dr. Hutchinson’s primary research emphasis has been on micron scale plasticity, thermal barrier coatings, and blast resistant structures. Dr. Hutchinson has served on numerous scientific and advisory boards; he currently serves on the NRC U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Dr. Hutchinson received his B.S. in applied mechanics from Lehigh University in 1960, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1961 and 1963 respectively.

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Brigadier General Leon A. Johnson retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves with the rank of brigadier general after 33 years of service and is currently a manager for United Parcel Service (UPS) flight operations. He has served as the employment manager, employee services manager, chief pilot, employee relations manager, and training manager during his 17 years with UPS flight operations. During his Air Force career, he served as the mobilization assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. In that role he advised senior Air Force leadership on outreach, marketing, retention, and recruiting initiatives. He also served as the chair of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Human Resources Development Council (HRDC). As the chair of the HRDC General Johnson was the principal staff officer responsible for formulating and administering, in concert with other Air Force Reserve Staff agencies, policies and programs for and affecting AFRC people programs, including outreach and retention initiatives. General Johnson is a member of several organizations, including the Air Force Association, Reserve Officers Association, League of United Latin American Citizens, Women in Aviation, and the International Black Aerospace Council Inc.

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Dr. Edward H. Kaplan is the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences and Professor of Public Health at Yale University. A member of the NAE and IOM, he received his BA from McGill University with First Class Honors in Economic and Urban Geography, and proceeded to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he completed three masters degrees (in Operations Research, City Planning, and Statistics) in addition to his doctorate in Urban Studies. He is Area Editor for Policy Modeling and Public Sector Operations Research for the Journal Operations Research, and on the editorial boards of the Journal of AIDS, Health Care Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics. Dr. Kaplan is an expert in operations research and statistics who has recently developed novel methods for quantitatively evaluating operational effectiveness of suicide-bomber-detector schemes.

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Dr. Catherine M. Kelleher is Professor for Public Policy at the University of Maryland and Senior Faculty Associate at Brown University’s Watson Institute where her research interests include cooperative European defense and security policies, NATO relations, and international security and arms control. Dr. Kelleher served in the Clinton Administration as Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukraine, and Eurasia. She has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, to include as vice chair, co-vice chair, and member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control.

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Dr. Jerry A. Krill is Assistant Director of Programs at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where he oversees more than 400 programs and is also the laboratory’s chief quality officer. His expertise includes weapons systems engineering, sensor and weapons networks, precision engagement and information-centric operations, missile defense, over-the-horizon missile command-and-control systems, and microwave technology. Previously, he served as head of the Power Projection Systems Department, Program Manager for the Air and Missile Defense Area, and Supervisor of the Weapon Systems Engineering branch. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups.

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Mr. Thomas V. McNamara is Senior Vice President for Textron Systems’ Advanced Solutions Center (ASC). ASC’s focus is on long-term strategic technical investments and program execution to support Textron Systems’ businesses. He is responsible for the development of technology and systems to address the emerging challenges in the areas of precision engagement, maritime and land platforms, advanced controls, and aircraft engines. His areas of expertise include guidance, navigation and control; intelligent autonomy; precision weapons delivery; micro-electromechanical sensors; dismounted soldier systems; mission planning; and systems integration for naval submersible and aircraft platforms.

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Mr. L. David Montague, an independent consultant, is retired President of the Missile Systems Division at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space. A member of the NAE, his background is in military weapon systems, particularly in regard to guidance and control of submarine-launched weaponry. His experience has focused on both tactical and strategic strike systems, as well as on the requirements for, development of, and policy issues related to defense systems to protect against weapons of mass destruction. His recent research interests include the area of electric vehicles powered by battery or fuel cells integrated with induction drive high-speed highway automatic headway and vehicle control. Mr. Montague is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, to include task forces for both the U.S. Army and Defense Science Board.

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Dr. John H. Moxley III, M.D. recently retired as Managing Director at North American Health Care Division, Korn/Ferry International. Prior to joining Korn/Ferry, Dr. Moxley held a number of senior positions in academia, government, and commercial industry, including Dean of both the University of Maryland and the University of California (San Diego) Medical Schools, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, and Senior Vice President at American Medical International. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, the California Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the National Fund for Medical Education, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. Dr. Moxley is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

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Ms. Heidi C. Perry is director for IR&D at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Her expertise includes guidance, navigation and control; global position system anti-jam and ground control; precisions weapons delivery command and control; guided munitions and missile technologies. Previously, Ms. Perry served as software engineering division leader and principal member of technical staff as well as division leader of mission systems at Draper.

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Mr. Gene H. Porter is an adjunct member of the analytic staff of the Institute for Defense Analysis conducting research in matters relating to national security planning, weapons system development, and most recently, defense capability portfolio management techniques. Mr. Porter has also been supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense in defining the detailed Defense Planning Scenarios that are intended to guide the development of U.S. military force posture and modernization programs. This analytic work has involved an all-source examination of potential threats, including space-based threats, and potential U.S. responses. Previously, Mr. Porter served as Director of Acquisition Policy and Program Integration for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, where he was responsible for long-range planning, programming, and budgeting matters related to new military warfare systems. His earlier career included various staff and line management positions at Lockheed-Sanders Corporation in the development and manufacture of military and commercial electronic systems, including mine and undersea warfare systems. Mr. Porter has served on numerous scientific and advisory committees, including as chair of the NRC Committee for Mine Warfare Assessment.

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Mr. John S. Quilty retired as Senior Vice President and Director of the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Department of Defense (DOD) Federally Funded Research and Development Center at the MITRE Corporation. His activities have been focused on the support of the Army, Navy, Defense Information Systems Agency, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other members of the national security community. Mr. Quilty’s focus is also on support of DOD initiatives and activities designed to achieve improved command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence support to joint operations. For the last several years, he has been engaged with the concepts and system-of-system capabilities associated with the DOD’s vision of Network-Centric Operations. Previously, he served as Vice President of the MITRE Washington C3I Center. Mr. Quilty is a member of the Executive Committee of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association (AFCEA) Board of Directors. He served as Chair of the Military Communications Conference Board (IEEE/AFCEA-sponsored). Mr. Quilty also served on the NRC Committee to Review DOD C4I Plans and Programs. He has an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University with a B.S. in the same field from Princeton University.

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Admiral J. Paul Reason, USN (Ret.) is an independent consultant. Admiral Reason retired in 1999 after 34 years of active duty service in the U.S. Navy. The Navy’s first African American to make four-star rank, Admiral Reason’s last assignment was Commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, where his duties included the training, maintenance, and readiness of naval forces deployed to the Mediterranean and Caribbean seas, South America, and the Persian Gulf. (He was also responsible for the operations of most U.S. Navy bases and facilities along the East and Gulf coasts of the United States, in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Iceland.) A graduate of the Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School, he is a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer with more than twenty years experience at sea. Ashore he served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operation for Plans, Policy and Operations; Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic; and Commander, Naval Base Seattle. Today Admiral Reason serves on numerous corporate boards; most recently he served on Wal-Mart’s Board of Directors.

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Lieutenant General John E. Rhodes retired from the U.S. Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general after 34 years of service and is currently an independent consultant. His background is in development of warfighting concepts and in the integration of all aspects of doctrine, organization, training and education, equipment, and support and facilities to enable the Marine Corps to field combat-ready forces. In his last position he served as commanding general of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Command, where his responsibilities included assessments of current and future operating environments and adaptation of the Corps’ training infrastructure and resources in order to ensure that integrated capabilities were delivered to the combatant commanders. General Rhodes has served on numerous scientific advisory committees, including as a member of the NRC Committee on the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces.

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Mr. John P. Stenbit, an independent consultant, recently served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and as the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, his career spans over 30 years of public and private sector service in telecommunications and command and control. His public service includes, in addition to his recent service, two years as Principal Deputy Director of Telecommunications and Command and Control Systems, and two years as Staff Specialist for Worldwide Command and Control Systems, both in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Stenbit previously was Executive Vice President at TRW, retiring in May 2001. He joined TRW in 1968 and was responsible for the planning and analysis of advanced satellite surveillance systems. Prior to joining TRW, he held a position with The Aerospace Corporation involving command and control systems for missiles and satellites, and satellite data compression and pattern recognition. During this time, he was a Fulbright Fellow and Aerospace Corporation Fellow at the Technische Hogeschool, Einhoven, Netherlands, concentrating on coding theory and data compression. He has served on numerous scientific boards and advisory committees, including Chair of the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence, and as a member of the Science Advisory Group to the Directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency.

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Dr. James Ward is Leader of the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he has worked since 1990. His areas of technical expertise include signal processing for radar, sonar, and communications systems; adaptive array and space-time adaptive processing; detection and estimation theory; and systems analysis. In 2001 he was the recipient of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence Award, and in 2003 received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Fred Nathanson Young Engineer Award for contributions to adaptive radar and sonar signal processing. Dr. Ward is an IEEE Fellow.

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Dr. David A. Whelan (Vice Chair) is Vice President and General Manager of Boeing’s Phantom Works Division. Prior to joining Boeing in 2001, Dr. Whelan was Director of the Tactical Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he led the development of enabling technologies, such as unmanned vehicles and space-based moving target indicator radar systems. Prior to his position with DARPA, Dr. Whelan held several positions of increasing responsibility with Hughes Aircraft. His high-technology development experience also includes roles as a research physicist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as one of four lead engineers assigned for the design and development of the B-2 Stealth Bomber Program at Northrop Grumman. Dr. Whelan is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

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Dr. Cindy Williams is a Principal Research Scientist of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Formerly she was Assistant Director for National Security at the Congressional Budget Office, where she led the National Security Division in studies of budgetary and policy choices related to defense and international security. Dr. Williams has served as a director and in other capacities at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts; as a member of the Senior Executive Service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon; and at RAND in Santa Monica, California. She is the editor and one of several authors of Holding the Line: U.S. Defense Alternatives for the Early 21st Century, a book about defense spending choices for the future. Her areas of specialization include the national security budget, command and control of military forces, conventional air and ground forces, and nuclear weapons.

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Dr. Elihu Zimet, an independent consultant, recently retired as distinguished research professor at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University (NDU). His background is in naval science and technology with respect to military operations, kinetic and non-kinetic effects, and low-observable and counter low-observable technologies. Prior to joining NDU, he served as head, Special Programs, and the Expeditionary Warfare Science and Technology Department of the Office of Naval Research. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969. From 1969 to 1971, he was a Lecturer at Yale University, where he conducted research in the field of fluid mechanics. Dr. Zimet started his government career at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1971, working on gas dynamic and chemical high-energy lasers, and after the laboratory became part of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, he became Branch Head of the Detonation Physics Branch. From 1991 to 2002, as a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), he headed the Special Programs, and subsequently, the Expeditionary Warfare Science and Technology Departments at the Office of Naval Research. Dr. Zimet served on the Committee for the "1,000-ship Navy" -- A Distributed and Global Maritime Network, and the Committee for the Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror for the National Academies. He served for many years on NATO AGAARD, and RTO technology panels. He was twice awarded the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in the SES and has also been awarded the Distinguished Civilian Civil Service Award.

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Charles F. Draper is Director of the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. He joined the National Academies in 1997 as Program Officer then Senior Program Officer with the Naval Studies Board and in 2003 became Associate Director and Acting Director. During his tenure at the National Academies, Dr. Draper has served as study director on a wide-range of topics aimed at helping the Department of the Navy with its scientific, technical, and strategic planning. Prior to joining the National Academies, Dr. Draper was the lead mechanical engineer at Sensytech, Incorporated (formerly S.T. Research Corporation), where he provided technical and program management support for satellite earth station and small satellite design. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1995; his doctoral research was conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), where he used an atomic force microscope to measure the nano-mechanical properties of thin film materials. In parallel with his graduate student duties, Dr. Draper was a mechanical engineer with Geo-Centers, Incorporated, working onsite at NRL on the development of an underwater x-ray backscattering tomography system used for the nondestructive evaluation of U.S. Navy sonar domes on surface ships.

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Arul Mozhi is a senior program officer at the National Research Council’s Naval Studies Board. Prior to joining the NRC in 1999, Dr. Mozhi was senior scientist and program manager at UTRON, Inc., a high-tech company in the Washington, D.C. area, working on pulsed electrical and chemical energy technologies applied to materials processing. From 1989 to 1996, Dr. Mozhi was a senior engineer and task leader at Roy F. Weston, Inc., a leading environmental consulting company working on long-term nuclear materials performance and systems engineering related to nuclear waste transport, storage, and disposal in support of the U.S. Department of Energy. Before 1989 he was a materials scientist at Marko Materials, Inc., a high-tech firm in the Boston area, working on rapidly solidified materials. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (the latter in 1986) in materials engineering from the Ohio State University and then served as a postdoctoral research associate there. He received his B.S. in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1982.

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Raymond Widmayer is a Senior Program Officer with the National Academies’ Naval Studies board and was a consultant for the NSB from July 2004 through June 2007. He retired from the federal government in June 2004 with more than 40 years of service working for the U.S. Navy as a mechanical engineer. His career started at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory (White Oak) and progressed through a two-year posting with the United Kingdom, working on sea mine warfare programs for the Royal Navy. Following his United Kingdom posting he was selected as the Technical Director for Sea Mine Warfare within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1982. He concluded his government service as the Technical Director of the OPNAV organization responsible for overall integration of S&T within OPNAV. Ray earned his BSME from the University of Maryland (1965, mechanical engineering), his M.S. from Columbia University (1967, mechanical engineering), and his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland (1972, mechanical engineering concentrating in fluid mechanics). Additionally, he is a 1993 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

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Billy M. Williams is a Senior Program Officer with the National Academies’ Naval Studies Board. Prior to joining NSB, he served in a similar capacity with the National Academies’ Board on Army Science and Technology where he led projects associated with the U.S. Army’s Chemical Demilitarization program. Billy retired as a Global R&D Director from the Dow Chemical Company in 2004 after 30 years of service. His career at Dow included directing analytical sciences and materials science in operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia. While at Dow he also served as the company’s Director of External Science and Technology programs, with responsibility for developing and securing strategic technical partnerships with leading research universities, national laboratories and federal agencies. Billy earned an M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry and has completed executive education programs at Indiana University and Harvard University.

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