Leo Manzer - Catalytic Insights
Dr. Manzer had a long and illustrious career at DuPont, where he served as a Research Fellow and founded and directed the company’s Corporate Catalysis Center. 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.

Clive Bosnyak - Creative Polymers
Dr. Bosnyak spent 25 years at Dow Chemical, where he led several materials programs in new products and technology, including new materials and structures for building and construction, novel polypropylenes, blow-moldable styrenic block copolymers, new engineering thermoplastic polyesters, thermosets, composites, films and foams. His expertise includes the design of polymeric materials, both chemical and physical, for specific process and structure-property relationships.  

Dale Boger- Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Boger is widely recognized for his innovative research spanning organic synthesis methods, natural product chemistry and bioorganic chemistry.   He is currently Richard and Alice Cramer Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Doug Cameron - Piper Jaffray
Dr. Cameron is a Managing Director and Scientific Advisor to investment banking firm Piper Jaffray.  Prior to joining Piper, he held technology leadership positions at Cargill (1998-2006), where he built the biotechnology research team, then as CSO of Khosla Ventures. 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 industrial chemicals