Over 25 years of industry experience driving new technologies and business opportunities from idea, to prototype, through development, scale-up, and launch.  Exceptional in people development with the ability to leverage individual strengths and styles to build organizations of talented, engaged, and motivated people.

Current LLNL Role:

• Focus on material development to address supply chain risk and embed supply chain resiliency to enable our current and future missions.
• Spearhead new ways-of-working and explore industrial approaches to accelerate technology realization.

Previous Experience:

The Clorox Company: 1997-2022

• R&D Director of Global Innovation Discovery - Cleaning
• R&D Director - Renew Life
• Other Businesses: Kingsford, Litter, Hidden Valley Ranch, Armor All Auto Care Products

Competencies Include:

Front-End Innovation | Commercialization | Technology Pipeline Development | Scaled Agile | Federal Regulatory Processes | People & Organizational Development | External Partnership | Design for Manufacturing | Product Development

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Inorganic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College

Effective Leadership Program, Center for Creative Leadership

Supply Chain Foundations Training Program, Georgia Institute of Technology

Selected Publications:

• Langmuir; 1996 (12)
•  Inorganic Chemistry; 2000 (39): 1901-1906
• Inorganic Chemistry; 1997 (36): 5419
• Inorganic Chemistry; 1996 (35), 2963
• Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998; 95(5): 2531-2534
• J. Org. Chem. 2002, 67, 10, 3202-3212
• American Cleaning Institute Presentation Jan 2021: “Future of Cleaning”
• American Cleaning Institute Presentation Jan 2022: “Concentrates, A More Sustainable Future”

• George Gregory Prize for Excellence in Research, UCLA
• Departmental Dissertation Award for Research in Inorganic Chemistry, UCLA
• Plug & Play Trailblazer Award, 2020
• LLNL SD Gold Award 2025
• LLNL SD Silver Award 2025