nanoScience Engineering Corp. is led by a seasoned executive management team with over 100 years of cumulative experience in advanced materials, nanotechnology, marketing, sales and management.
Mr. Burnett co-founded and has served as President of both Prizmalite Industries, Inc., a developer of glass micro bead technology used in the coatings, textiles, plastics and friction materials industries, and TIOXOCLEAN, Inc., a developer of titanium dioxide based photo catalytic cleaners. In addition, Mr. Burnett holds patents for the use of micro spheres of barium titanate glass in conventional friction compositions for molding automotive and other brake and clutch elements; and for compositions where glass micro beads and crumb rubber are combined and suspended therein for superior binding and optical properties in paints, plastics and other similar compounds.
Mr. Burnett has more than 30 years executive level experience in launching and managing industrial and consumer brands, including being the President/Owner of Burnett and Radano, Inc., a New York based advertising and public relations firm whose client roster included Izod/David Crystal, Standard Industries, Summit Laboratories and BMW Motorcycle. His corporate experience includes serving as Director of Sales and Operations of Cresco Corporation and its subsidiary, Arbee Fine Foods, then the leading service merchandiser and specialty food distributor to supermarkets on the East Coast. Mr. Burnett is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and a member of the Board of Visitors, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University.
Mr. Braddock has a long history in the automotive marketplace. For over 30 years, Mr. Braddock has held executive purchasing positions with General Motors and American Motors/Chrysler Corporation. Before joining nanoScience Engineering Corp., he was Vice President, world-wide purchasing for Trelleborg Automotive. In addition, he has founded Global Sales Associates, Inc., a manufacturer's representative organization which has been responsible for the sale of a wide array of automotive products to the U.S. automotive market place, such as stampings, co-extruded fuel line, fuel filler tubes, bearings, actuators, assemblies and wiring harnesses. Customers of Global Sales have included General Motors, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and a diverse group of Tier One suppliers. As a result, Mr. Braddock has gained valuable experience in dealing with the OEM automotive companies as well as a number of companies in the Tier One supplier base.
Mr. Braddock has been a registered Certified Purchasing Manager and a member of the Society of Manufacturer's Representatives, and has served on various industry panels for OEM/Supplier coordination.
Dr. Kannan is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CHEMS) Department in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. Before joining the CHEMS Department faculty in 1997, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory.
Professor Kannan earned his PhD in chemical engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1994. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are polymer processing and rheology, nanomaterials for targeted drug delivery and development of novel experimental methods, such as rheo-FTIR spectroscopy and probing the microscopic and macroscopic behavior of materials. Dr. Kannan, one of the inventors of the SCFP technology, has published over fifty research articles and organized numerous sessions at national meetings on topics related to polymer rheology, processing and drug delivery.
Dr. Gulari is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering and Sciences at Clemson University and is a former professor in the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University.
In addition, Dr. Gulari, the former Director of the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation, is the holder of four patents and two patent applications related to the SCFP. Moreover, she is one of the few winners of the Ford Motor Company Engineering Award who was not affiliated with Ford prior to or at the time of winning such award. Dr. Gulari earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology.