About CTD

Dr. Naseem A. Munshi, President and CEO

Dr. Munshi is the President, Founder and Chief Chemist at CTD, where she has successfully grown and operated the company for more than 20 years. She has had key involvement in the development of the novel materials that enable CTD’s products to provide the outstanding benefits they do. Dr. Munshi’s model for CTD is to develop novel materials and processes, and engineer them into enabling products that alter market dynamics in many different industries. As the primary inventor of CTD’s TEMBO® shape memory polymers, Dr. Munshi has also seen her materials gain space-flight heritage through recent space flight successes.

Currently, Dr. Munshi’s focus is on guiding CTD towards a sustainable cycle of technology innovation, product innovation, and product commercialization. In 2007 Dr. Munshi was acknowledged for her success as an innovator by being named Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Technology in the Rocky Mountain region. Dr. Munshi earned a BS in Chemical and Polymer Technology and a PhD in Polymer Science from the Polytechnic of the South Bank, London.

Mr. Michael L. Tupper, Executive Vice President

Mr. Tupper has been intimately involved in the development, testing and manufacturing of composite materials for more than 20 years. His current responsibilities are focused on guiding the commercialization of products and technologies developed by CTD into target industries and applications. His focus for commercialization is to identify niche market applications where CTD’s products and technologies impact market dynamics. Working with strategic partners, Mr. Tupper seeks applications where without the use of CTD’s technologies or products the application’s needs cannot be met. Mr. Tupper has also played a key role in obtaining development funding for CTD to develop materials, technologies and products.

Prior to CTD, Mr. Tupper worked as an engineer at General Atomics in San Diego, California, where he participated in a wide range of engineering activities with emphasis on operation in extreme environments. Mr. Tupper earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University and is a registered Professional Engineer.

Dr. Mark S. Lake, Chief Engineer

Dr. Lake is the Chief Engineer at CTD, and leads the development of engineering methods for the application of CTD’s innovative material systems. Dr. Lake leads the efforts to develop new product areas, technologies, and products at CTD including deployable structures for satellites, composite ship propellers, morphing aircraft wings, medical products, and products for oil and gas industry. In addition, Dr. Lake oversees the development of CTD’s engineering and technical staff including hiring of key personnel, preparing the staff to meet the required challenges, and guiding the engineering teams to success.

Dr. Lake is an internationally recognized expert in the field of deployable spacecraft structures, and an authority on nonlinear mechanics of composite and mechanically jointed structures. Prior to joining CTD in 2001, Dr. Lake was a Senior Research Engineer at the NASA Langley Research Center. During his 20-year tenure with NASA, Dr. Lake advanced the field of large space structures (including large deployable RF and optical instruments) through analytical studies of the mechanics of this unique class of structures and the development and evaluation of advanced hardware concepts for these structures. Dr. Lake received a B.S. from the University of Illinois, an M.S. from Old Dominion University and a PhD from North Carolina State University.